PUBLISHING

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does publishing mean? 

• PUBLISHING (noun)
  The noun PUBLISHING has 1 sense:

1. the business of issuing printed matter for sale or distribution

  Familiarity information: PUBLISHING used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• PUBLISHING (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The business of issuing printed matter for sale or distribution

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Synonyms:

publication; publishing

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

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

Domain member category:

headline (provide (a newspaper page or a story) with a headline)

index (provide with an index)

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

desktop publishing ((computer science) the use of microcomputers with graphics capacity to produce printed materials)

republication; republishing (the act of publishing again)

contribution (a writing for publication especially one of a collection of writings as an article or story)

serialisation; serialization (publication in serial form)

Derivation:

publish (prepare and issue for public distribution or sale)

 Context examples 

This is the first time that NASA is publishing a version of the scene produced using modern image processing techniques.

(NASA Issues 'Remastered' View of Jupiter's Moon Europa, NASA)

You will please note that we have increased your royalties to twenty per cent, which is about as high as a conservative publishing house dares go.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

The practice of collecting and publishing information regarding current events.

(Journalism, NCI Thesaurus)

A text block containing publishing and authoring information that allows receivers of this document version to refer appropriately to this document version.

(Document Version Bibliographic Designation, NCI Thesaurus)

The Sun is the natural ruler of your ninth house, ruling foreign people and places, academia, the media (publishing, broadcasting, and Internet), and all legal matters.

(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)

In publishing these short sketches based upon the numerous cases in which my companion’s singular gifts have made us the listeners to, and eventually the actors in, some strange drama, it is only natural that I should dwell rather upon his successes than upon his failures.

(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

I was fortunate enough, too, to become acquainted with a person in the publishing way, who was getting up an Encyclopaedia, and he set me to work; and, indeed (glancing at his table), I am at work for him at this minute.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

Six years later, Stegman and Ziegler expanded on that idea, publishing the first work showing how this once-liquid portion of the lower mantle, rather than the core, could have exceeded the thresholds needed to create Earth's magnetic field during that time.

(Earth's mantle, not its core, may have generated planet's early magnetic field, National Science Foundation)

A person who edits material for publication; a person having managerial and sometimes policy-making responsibility for the editorial part of a publishing firm or of a newspaper, magazine, or other publication; the supervisor or conductor of a department of a newspaper, magazine, etc.

(Editor, NCI Thesaurus)

The idea of Edward's being a clergyman, and living in a small parsonage-house, diverted him beyond measure;—and when to that was added the fanciful imagery of Edward reading prayers in a white surplice, and publishing the banns of marriage between John Smith and Mary Brown, he could conceive nothing more ridiculous.

(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)