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.

ChatGPTRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. printing

   Printing is a process of reproducing text, images, or designs onto paper or other materials using a mechanical or digital device called a printer. It involves transferring ink or toner onto the surface of the material to create a permanent or temporary copy of the content. Printing is commonly used for various purposes, including publishing books, magazines, newspapers, creating marketing materials, and printing personal documents.

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

WikidataRate 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.

Editors ContributionRate this definition:3.0 / 1 vote

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

   US English

   David

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   Mark

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   Daniel

   British

   Libby

   British

   Mia

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   Karen

   Australian

   Hayley

   Australian

   Natasha

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   Veena

   Indian

   Priya

   Indian

   Neerja

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   Zira

   US English

   Oliver

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   Wendy

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   Fred

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   Tessa

   South African

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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. Edwin Conklin:

   The probability of life originating from accident is comparable to the probability of the unabridged dictionary resulting from an explosion in a printing shop.

2. Sergey Nazarov:

   Bitcoin is a natural safe haven for those seeking shelter from rapidly increasing central bank money printing and the inflation that everyone agrees is already increasing.

3. Larry Summers:

   We are printing money, we are creating government bonds, we are borrowing on unprecedented scales, those are things that surely create more of a risk of a sharp dollar decline than we had before. And sharp dollar declines are much more likely to translate themselves into inflation than they were historically.

4. Chad Frost:

   We're bringing state-of-the-art tech to the challenge of tracking wildlife, using modern networking technologies and economical prototyping techniques like 3D printing, this collaboration is creating a new kind of tag that will fundamentally change the scale of science that can come out of tracking wildlife like sea otters.

5. Wilbur Ross:

   I respect the Supreme Court but strongly disagree with its ruling regarding my decision to reinstate a citizenship question on the 2020 Census, the Census Bureau has started the process of printing the decennial questionnaires without the question. My focus, and that of the The Census Bureau and the entire Department is to conduct a complete and accurate census.

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References

1. ^ Princeton's WordNet
   http://wordnetweb.princeton.edu/perl/webwn?s=printing
2. ^ Wiktionary
   https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Printing
3. ^ Wikipedia
   https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Printing
4. ^ ChatGPT
   https://chat.openai.com
5. ^ Webster Dictionary
   https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/printing
6. ^ Wikidata
   https://www.wikidata.org/w/index.php?search=printing