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Definition of Printing
1. Noun. Text handwritten in the style of printed matter.
2. Noun. The business of producing printed material for sale or distribution.
Specialized synonyms: Gravure, Issue, Publication
Examples of category: Case, Compositor's Case, Typesetter's Case, Justify
Category relationships: Printing Process
3. Noun. Reproduction by applying ink to paper as for publication.
Examples of category: Hair Space, Quad, Space, Impression, Proof, Test Copy, Trial Impression, Ascender, Descender, Serif, Seriph, Word Processing, White Out, Underlay, Kern, Kern, Live, Justified, Leaded, Unleaded, Superior, Superscript, Inferior, Subscript, Adscript
Generic synonyms: Writing
Specialized synonyms: Composition, Typography, Letterpress, Relief Printing, Gravure, Intaglio, Intaglio Printing, Process Printing, Planographic Printing, Planography, Offset, Offset Printing, Carbon Process
Derivative terms: Print, Print
4. Noun. All the copies of a work printed at one time. "They ran off an initial printing of 2000 copies"
Generic synonyms: Publication
Specialized synonyms: Edition, Proof, Test Copy, Trial Impression, Mackle
Category relationships: Printing Process
Definition of Printing
1. n. 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.
Definition of Printing
1. Noun. The process or business of producing printed material by means of inked type and a printing press or similar technology. ¹
2. Noun. Material that has been printed. ¹
3. Noun. All the copies of a publication that have been printed in one batch. ¹
4. Noun. Written characters not joined-up. ¹
5. Verb. (present participle of print) ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Printing
1. a reproduction from a printing surface [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Printing
Literary usage of Printing
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Annual Report by Iowa Highway Commission (1915)
"8 forms, $7.62; Ames Tribune, 2000 bulletins and extra, reprint April, 1914
bulletin and 6 pages extra $105.00; May 26, King printing Co., ..."
2. The Encyclopedia Americana: A Library of Universal Knowledge (1919)
"printing rollers consist of a mixture of glue, glycerine, glucose and sugar.
The formula of mixture is varied to suit the speed of the machine and the ..."
3. The Encyclopedia Americana: A Library of Universal Knowledge (1920)
"TEXTILE printing. The decorating of fabrics by printing is one of the oldest or
... All this early printing was done from blocks by a method very similar to ..."
4. Journal by Pennsylvania General Assembly. Senate (1823)
"To printing 50 bills, arrival and departure of mails, g3 00 To printing list of
yeas and nays, - - - 3 00 To printing proposals of printers, ..."
5. The Museum of Science and Art by Dionysius Lardner (1856)
"Use of movable types for printing successive books or parts of a book.—8. ...
IT is a remarkable fact, that printing, which has so far transcended all other ..."
6. Annual Report by United States Civil Service Commission (1898)
"Number of examinations held iu each State for the Departmental Page. and Government
printing Services 427 2. Number of persone examined on the different ..."
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