Meaning

15 senses
  1. (uncountable)Books and other material created by printing presses, considered collectively or as a medium.

    Three citations are required for each meaning, including one in print.

    TV and the Internet haven't killed print.

    печа́тьpečátʹ

    друкdruk

  2. (uncountable)Clear handwriting, especially, writing without connected letters as in cursive.

    Write in print using block letters.

    Druckschrift

  3. (uncountable)The letters forming the text of a document.

    The print is too small for me to read.

    Schrift

    шрифтšrift

  4. (countable)A newspaper.

  5. (countable, uncountable)A visible impression on a surface.

    Using a crayon, the girl made a print of the leaf under the page.

    Abdruck

    отпеча́токotpečátok

    a visible indication made on a surface

  6. (countable, uncountable)A fingerprint.

    Did the police find any prints at the scene?

  7. (countable, uncountable)A footprint.

  8. (countable, uncountable)A picture that was created in multiple copies by printing.

    Druck

  9. (countable, uncountable)A photograph that has been printed onto paper from the negative.

    Abzug

    a printed picture produced from a photographic negative

  10. (countable, uncountable)A copy of a film that can be projected.

    a copy of a movie on film (especially a particular version of it)

  11. (countable, uncountable)Cloth that has had a pattern of dye printed onto it.

    a fabric with a dyed pattern pressed onto it (usually by engraved rollers)

  12. (countable, uncountable)A plaster cast in bas relief.

Examples

312 sentences
  1. This book, which was once a best seller, is now out of print.

    Цю книгу, яка колись була бестселером, зараз не друкується.

    deDieses Buch, einst ein Bestseller, wird nicht mehr nachgedruckt.

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  2. Since he can read such tiny print, he is far from being near-sighted.

    Якщо вже він може читати такий маленький шрифт, то він геть не короткозорий.

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  3. This book is out of print.

    deDieses Buch ist vergriffen.

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  4. Can you read this small print?

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  5. Read the fine print before signing.

    ruПрочитай то, что написано мелким шрифтом, прежде чем подписывать.

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Translations

7 languages
Українська
By meaning 1
books and other printed material as a medium:
Русский
By meaning 3
books and other printed material as a medium:
letters forming the text of a document:
visible impression on a surface:
Deutsch
By meaning 6
motion pictures: copy of a film:
clear handwriting without connected letters:
letters forming the text of a document:
visible impression on a surface:
visual art: picture created in multiple copies by printing:
photograph that has been printed onto paper from the negative:

Origin

From Middle English *printen, prenten, preenten, an apheretic form of emprinten, enprinten

From Middle English *printen, prenten, preenten, an apheretic form of emprinten, enprinten (“to impress; imprint”) (see imprint). Compare Dutch prenten (“to imprint”), Middle Low German prenten (“to print; write”), Danish prente (“to print”), Swedish prenta (“to write German letters”). Compare also Late Old French printer, preindre (“to press”), from Latin premere (“to press”).

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Forms

plural: prints
Singularprint
Pluralprints

regular

Synonyms

3 synonyms
a printed work:imprintery
Close in meaning
  • a printed picture produced from a photographic negative:photographic print
  • a visible indication made on a surface:mark

Antonyms

1 antonyms
writing without connected letters:cursive

Word family

106 related words

Collocations

3 patterns
  • the fine print
  • small print
  • fine print

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
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