PRINTING

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does printing mean? 

• PRINTING (noun)
  The noun PRINTING has 4 senses:

1. text handwritten in the style of printed matter

2. the business of producing printed material for sale or distribution

3. reproduction by applying ink to paper as for publication

4. all the copies of a work printed at one time

  Familiarity information: PRINTING used as a noun is uncommon.

 Dictionary entry details 

• PRINTING (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Text handwritten in the style of printed matter

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Hypernyms ("printing" is a kind of...):

writing (letters or symbols that are written or imprinted on a surface to represent the sounds or words of a language)

Sense 2

Meaning:

The business of producing printed material for sale or distribution

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Hypernyms ("printing" is a kind of...):

business; business enterprise; commercial enterprise (the activity of providing goods and services involving financial and commercial and industrial aspects)

Domain category:

printing; printing process (reproduction by applying ink to paper as for publication)

Domain member category:

case; compositor's case; typesetter's case ((printing) the receptacle in which a compositor has his type, which is divided into compartments for the different letters, spaces, or numbers)

justify (adjust the spaces between words)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "printing"):

gravure (the act of intaglio printing)

issue; publication (the act of issuing printed materials)

Sense 3

Meaning:

Reproduction by applying ink to paper as for publication

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Synonyms:

printing; printing process

Hypernyms ("printing" is a kind of...):

writing (letters or symbols that are written or imprinted on a surface to represent the sounds or words of a language)

Domain member category:

white out (widen the interlinear spacing by inserting leads)

adscript (written or printed immediately following another character and aligned with it)

inferior; subscript (written or printed below and to one side of another character)

superior; superscript (written or printed above and to one side of another character)

unleaded (not having leads between the lines)

leaded (having thin strips of lead between the lines of type)

justified (having words so spaced that lines have straight even margins)

live (in current use or ready for use)

kern (furnish with a kern)

kern (remove a portion of space between (adjacent letters))

underlay (raise or support (the level of printing) by inserting a piece of paper or cardboard under the type)

word processing (rapid and efficient processing (storage and printing) of linguistic data for composition and editing)

serif; seriph (a short line at the end of the main strokes of a character)

descender ((printing) the part of lowercase letters that extends below the other lowercase letters)

ascender ((printing) the part of tall lowercase letters that extends above the other lowercase letters)

printing (the business of producing printed material for sale or distribution)

hair space ((printing) the narrowest of the spaces used to separate words or letters)

quad; space ((printing) a block of type without a raised letter; used for spacing between words or sentences)

impression; printing (all the copies of a work printed at one time)

proof; test copy; trial impression ((printing) an impression made to check for errors)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "printing"):

composition; typography (art and technique of printing with movable type)

letterpress; relief printing (printing from a plate with raised characters)

gravure; intaglio; intaglio printing (a printing process that uses an etched or engraved plate; the plate is smeared with ink and wiped clean, then the ink left in the recesses makes the print)

process printing (a method of printing colored reproductions from halftone plates)

planographic printing; planography (the process of printing from a surface on which the printing areas are not raised but are ink-receptive (as opposed to ink repellent))

offset; offset printing (a plate makes an inked impression on a rubber-blanketed cylinder, which in turn transfers it to the paper)

carbon process (a process of printing on paper coated with bichromated gelatin containing pigment)

Derivation:

print (put into print)

print (reproduce by printing)

Sense 4

Meaning:

All the copies of a work printed at one time

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Synonyms:

impression; printing

Context example:

they ran off an initial printing of 2000 copies

Hypernyms ("printing" is a kind of...):

publication (a copy of a printed work offered for distribution)

Domain category:

printing; printing process (reproduction by applying ink to paper as for publication)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "printing"):

edition (the form in which a text (especially a printed book) is published)

proof; test copy; trial impression ((printing) an impression made to check for errors)

mackle (a printed impression that is blurred or doubled)

 Context examples 

This substance is used in printing inks, paints and to color vinyl, rubber and paper.

(Lead Chromate, NCI Thesaurus)

The group next used 3-D printing to create a device that could capture and remove melittin from a solution.

(3-D gel-nanoparticle device detoxifies blood, NIH)

You will observe that the paper is torn away at the side here after the printing was done, so that the ‘S’ of ‘SOAP’ is partly gone.

(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Researchers at the State University of New York, Binghamton made a paper battery by printing thin layers of metals and other materials onto a paper surface.

(New Type of Battery Created from Paper, Fueled by Bacteria, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

The device is believed to be the first demonstration of aerosol jet 3D printing to produce an implantable, stretchable sensing system for wireless monitoring.

(Stretchable wireless sensor could monitor healing of cerebral aneurysms, National Science Foundation)

Yes, believe it or not, there are crooks who are printing checks linked to other people’s accounts and actually writing out checks and signing the account owner’s name.

(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)

Now I must either bundle it back in to my tin kitchen to mold, pay for printing it myself, or chop it up to suit purchasers and get what I can for it.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

Basic fuchsin is primarily used for bacterial identification, but is also used as a dye in textiles, leather, and printing inks.

(Basic Fuchsin, NCI Thesaurus)

Examples of this technique include etching, writing and printing on nanoscale surfaces.

(Nanolithography, NCI Thesaurus)

Other potential uses of vaterite include improving the cements used in orthopaedic surgery and as an industrial application improving the quality of papers for inkjet printing by reducing the lateral spread of ink.

(Rare mineral discovered in plants for first time, University of Cambridge)