Definitions for Printing
ˈprɪn tɪŋprint·ing

Princeton's WordNetRate this definition:2.8 / 5 votes

1. printingnoun

   text handwritten in the style of printed matter

2. printingnoun

   the business of producing printed material for sale or distribution

3. printing, printing processnoun

   reproduction by applying ink to paper as for publication

4. impression, printingnoun

   all the copies of a work printed at one time

   "they ran off an initial printing of 2000 copies"

WiktionaryRate this definition:2.3 / 4 votes

1. printingnoun

   The process or business of producing printed material by means of inked type and a printing press or similar technology.

2. printingnoun

   Material that has been printed.

3. printingnoun

   All the copies of a publication that have been printed in one batch.

4. printingnoun

   Written characters not joined-up.

WikipediaRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. Printing

   Printing is a process for mass reproducing text and images using a master form or template. The earliest non-paper products involving printing include cylinder seals and objects such as the Cyrus Cylinder and the Cylinders of Nabonidus. The earliest known form of printing as applied to paper was woodblock printing, which appeared in China before 220 AD for cloth printing. However, it would not be applied to paper until the seventh century. Later developments in printing technology include the movable type invented by Bi Sheng around 1040 AD and the printing press invented by Johannes Gutenberg in the 15th century. The technology of printing played a key role in the development of the Renaissance and the Scientific Revolution and laid the material basis for the modern knowledge-based economy and the spread of learning to the masses.

Webster DictionaryRate this definition:3.0 / 1 vote

1. Printing

   of Print

2. Printingnoun

   the act, art, or practice of impressing letters, characters, or figures on paper, cloth, or other material; the business of a printer, including typesetting and presswork, with their adjuncts; typography; also, the act of producing photographic prints

FreebaseRate this definition:3.8 / 11 votes

1. Printing

   Printing is a process for reproducing text and images, typically with ink on paper using a printing press. It is often carried out as a large-scale industrial process, and is an essential part of publishing and transaction printing. The earliest form of printing was woodblock printing, with existing examples from China dating to before 220 A.D. and Egypt to the fourth century. Later developments in printing include the movable type, first developed by Bi Sheng in China, and the printing press, a more efficient printing process for western languages with their more limited alphabets, developed by Johannes Gutenberg in the fifteenth century.

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1. printingverb

   There's another meaning for "printing" that isn't listed here. When someone is carrying a concealed firearm, having a shirt or jacket that shows the outline of the weapon underneath is called "printing". It is to be avoided, as it means the weapon is poorly concealed.

   When the undercover cop bent down to retrieve the wallet, he was printing badly and several bystanders saw that he was armed.

   Etymology: unknown...I suspect it derives from the "imprint" of the weapon being visible.

   
   

   Submitted by anonymous on June 22, 2022  

Matched Categories

1. • Commercial Enterprise
   • Printing
   • Publication
   • Writing

British National Corpus

1. Nouns Frequency

   Rank popularity for the word 'Printing' in Nouns Frequency: #2566

How to pronounce Printing?

1. Alex

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Numerology

1. Chaldean Numerology

   The numerical value of Printing in Chaldean Numerology is: 2

2. Pythagorean Numerology

   The numerical value of Printing in Pythagorean Numerology is: 8

Examples of Printing in a Sentence

1. Wendell Phillips:

   What gunpowder did for war the printing press has done for the mind.

2. Michael McBride:

   But religious groups have been at the forefront of new technology adoption, from the days of the printing press – religious groups were early adopters of the printing press – to using videos when VHS first appeared to setting up websites in the early days of the Internet.

3. Walmart Supercenters:

   Our new vests have a modernized style that takes advantage of trim detail and screen printing to introduce color in an eye-catching way.

4. Cross Research analyst Shannon Cross:

   I think the results showed continued pressure on printing and PC's and better-than-expected results in enterprise.

5. Will Hamlyn:

   The BOJ decision was a massive surprise. It's further money printing from Japan on a massive scale after having told the markets that they're not doing it, that triggered European investors to push the risk-on button.

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