Meaning

11 senses
  1. (transitive)To produce one or more copies of a text or image on a surface, especially by machine.

    Print the draft double-spaced so we can mark changes between the lines.

    drucken, ausdrucken

    печа́татьpečátatʹ, напеча́татьnapečátatʹ

    друкува́тиdrukuváty, надрукува́тиnadrukuváty

  2. To produce a microchip (an integrated circuit) in a process resembling the printing of an image.

    The circuitry is printed onto the semiconductor surface.

  3. (ambitransitive)To write very clearly, especially, to write without connecting the letters as in cursive.

    Print your name here and sign below.

    I'm only in grade 2, so I only know how to print.

    drucken, in Druckschrift schreiben

    писа́ть печа́тными бу́квамиpisátʹ pečátnymi búkvami

    write as if with print; not cursive

  4. (ambitransitive)To publish in a book, newspaper, etc.

    How could they print an unfounded rumour like that?

  5. (transitive)To stamp or impress (something) with coloured figures or patterns.

    to print calico

  6. (transitive)To fix or impress, as a stamp, mark, character, idea, etc., into or upon something.

  7. (transitive)To stamp something in or upon; to make an impression or mark upon by pressure, or as by pressure.

  8. (intransitive, slang)To inadequately conceal a weapon such that its outline or imprint is visible on the person wearing it.

  9. (transitive)To display a string on the terminal.

  10. (ambitransitive)To produce an observable value.

    On March 16, 2020, the S&P printed at 2,386.13, one of the worst drops in history.

  11. (transitive)To fingerprint (a person).

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

9 languages
Українська
By meaning 1
to produce a copy of a text or image on a surface, especially by machine:
Русский
By meaning 2
to produce a copy of a text or image on a surface, especially by machine:
to write clearly:
Deutsch
By meaning 2
to produce a copy of a text or image on a surface, especially by machine:
to write clearly:

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

prints, printing, printed, printed
Base formprint · to print
3rd person singularprints
Present participleprinting
Past simpleprinted
Past participleprinted

regular · Lesson

Present simpleLesson

I, you, we, theyprint
he, she, itprints

Past simpleLesson

all personsprinted

Present perfectLesson

I, you, we, theyhave printed
he, she, ithas printed

Future simple (will)Lesson

all personswill print

Phrasal verbs

3 phrasal verbs

Synonyms

2 synonyms
Close in meaning

Word family

42 related words

Collocations

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

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
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