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6 definitions found From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Print \Print\, v. i. 1. To use or practice the art of typography; to take impressions of letters, figures, or electrotypes, engraved plates, or the like 2. To publish a book or an article. From the moment he prints, he must except to hear no more truth. --Pope. From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Print \Print\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Printed}; p. pr & vb n. {Printing}.] [Abbrev. fr imprint. See {Imprint}, and {Press} to squeeze.] 1. To fix or impress, as a stamp, mark, character, idea, etc., into or upon something A look will print a thought that never may remove. --Surrey. Upon his breastplate he beholds a dint, Which in that field young Edward's sword did print. --Sir John Beaumont. Perhaps some footsteps printed in the clay. --Roscommon. 2. To stamp something in or upon to make an impression or mark upon by pressure, or as by pressure. Forth on his fiery steed betimes he rode, That scarcely prints the turf on which he trod. --Dryden. 3. Specifically: To strike off an impression or impressions of from type or from stereotype, electrotype, or engraved plates, or the like in a wider sense to do the typesetting, presswork, etc., of (a book or other publication); as to print books, newspapers, pictures; to print an edition of a book. 4. To stamp or impress with colored figures or patterns; as to print calico. 5. (Photog.) To take (a copy, a positive picture, etc.), from a negative, a transparent drawing, or the like by the action of light upon a sensitized surface. {Printed goods}, textile fabrics printed in patterns, especially cotton cloths, or calicoes. From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Print \Print\, n. [See {Print}, v., {Imprint}, n.] 1. A mark made by impression; a line character, figure, or indentation, made by the pressure of one thing on another; as the print of teeth or nails in flesh; the print of the foot in sand or snow. Where print of human feet was never seen. --Dryden. 2. A stamp or die for molding or impressing an ornamental design upon an object; as a butter print. 3. That which receives an impression, as from a stamp or mold; as a print of butter. 4. Printed letters; the impression taken from type as to excellence, form size, etc.; as small print; large print; this line is in print. 5. That which is produced by printing. Specifically: a An impression taken from anything as from an engraved plate. ``The prints which we see of antiquities.'' --Dryden. b A printed publication, more especially a newspaper or other periodical. --Addison. c A printed cloth; a fabric figured by stamping, especially calico or cotton cloth. d A photographic copy, or positive picture, on prepared paper, as from a negative, or from a drawing on transparent paper. 6. (Founding) A core print. See under {Core}. {Blue print}, a copy in white lines on a blue ground, of a drawing, plan tracing, etc., or a positive picture in blue and white, from a negative, produced by photographic printing on peculiarly prepared paper. From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]: print adj : written in print characters or produced by means of e.g. a printing press [syn: {printed}] n 1: the result of the printing process [syn: {black and white}] 2: a picture or design printed from an engraving [syn: {print making}] 3: a fabric with a dyed pattern pressed onto it (usually by engraved rollers) 4: a printed picture produced from a photographic negative [syn: {photographic print}] v 1: put into print [syn: {publish}] 2: write as if with print; not cursive 3: make into a print 4: reproduce by printing [syn: {impress}] From Jargon File (4.2.3, 23 NOV 2000) [jargon]: print v. To output, even if to a screen. If a hacker says that a program "printed a message", he means this if he refers to printing a file, he probably means it in the conventional sense of writing to a hardcopy device (compounds like `print job' and `printout', on the other hand, always refer to the latter). This very common term is likely a holdover from the days when printing terminals were the norm, perpetuated by programming language constructs like {C}'s printf(3). See senses 1 and 2 of {tty}. From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (13 Mar 01) [foldoc]: PRINTPRe-edited INTerpreter. An early mathematics language for the {IBM 705}. [Sammet 1969, p. 134]. (1995-05-01)
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