Books and other material created by printing presses, considered collectively or as a…Books and other material created by printing presses, considered collectively or as a medium.
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Examples
172 sentencesCan you read this small print?
You should've read the fine print.
Did you read all the small print?
ruТы мелкий шрифт весь прочитал? — sharptoothed
Meaning
15 senses(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
(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
(uncountable)Clear handwriting, especially, writing without connected letters as in cursive.
Write in print using block letters.
Druckschrift
More meanings 12
(countable, uncountable)A copy of a film that can be projected.
Kopie
a copy of a movie on film (especially a particular version of it)
(uncountable)The letters forming the text of a document.
The print is too small for me to read.
Schrift
шрифтšrift
(countable, uncountable)A picture that was created in multiple copies by printing.
Druck
(countable, uncountable)A photograph that has been printed onto paper from the negative.
Abzug
a printed picture produced from a photographic negative
(countable, uncountable)A pattern or design.
(countable, uncountable)A fingerprint.
Did the police find any prints at the scene?
(countable)A newspaper.
(countable, uncountable)A footprint.
(countable, uncountable)Cloth that has had a pattern of dye printed onto it.
Origin
From Middle English *printen, prenten, preenten, an apheretic form of emprinten, enprintenFrom 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: printsSynonyms
3 synonyms- a visible indication made on a surface:mark
- a printed picture produced from a photographic negative:photographic print
Antonyms
1 antonymsWord family
104 related wordsLessons for this word
1 lessons- A1Countable and uncountable nouns — Because it can be uncountable
Collocations
3 patterns- the fine print
- small print
- fine print
See also
neighbours in the dictionaryDictionary text adapted from Wiktionary (Wiktionary contributors, CC BY-SA 4.0) and Open English WordNet / Princeton WordNet (CC BY 4.0, WordNet License); shared under CC BY-SA 4.0. Example sentences and recordings are credited where they appear.