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PRINTING
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
The business of producing printed material for sale or distribution
Classified under:
Nouns denoting acts or actions
Hypernyms ("printing" is a kind of...):
business; business enterprise; commercial enterprise (the activity of providing goods and services involving financial and commercial and industrial aspects)
Domain category:
printing; printing process (reproduction by applying ink to paper as for publication)
Domain member category:
case; compositor's case; typesetter's case ((printing) the receptacle in which a compositor has his type, which is divided into compartments for the different letters, spaces, or numbers)
justify (adjust the spaces between words)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "printing"):
gravure (the act of intaglio printing)
issue; publication (the act of issuing printed materials)
Sense 2
Meaning:
Text handwritten in the style of printed matter
Classified under:
Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents
Hypernyms ("printing" is a kind of...):
writing (letters or symbols that are written or imprinted on a surface to represent the sounds or words of a language)
Sense 3
Meaning:
All the copies of a work printed at one time
Example:
they ran off an initial printing of 2000 copies
Synonyms:
impression; printing
Classified under:
Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents
Hypernyms ("printing" is a kind of...):
publication (a copy of a printed work offered for distribution)
Domain category:
printing; printing process (reproduction by applying ink to paper as for publication)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "printing"):
edition (the form in which a text (especially a printed book) is published)
proof; test copy; trial impression ((printing) an impression made to check for errors)
mackle (a printed impression that is blurred or doubled)
Sense 4
Meaning:
Reproduction by applying ink to paper as for publication
Synonyms:
printing; printing process
Classified under:
Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents
Hypernyms ("printing" is a kind of...):
writing (letters or symbols that are written or imprinted on a surface to represent the sounds or words of a language)
Domain member category:
adscript (written or printed immediately following another character and aligned with it)
inferior; subscript (written or printed below and to one side of another character)
superior; superscript (written or printed above and to one side of another character)
unleaded (not having leads between the lines)
leaded (having thin strips of lead between the lines of type)
justified (having words so spaced that lines have straight even margins)
live (in current use or ready for use)
kern (furnish with a kern)
kern (remove a portion of space between (adjacent letters))
underlay (raise or support (the level of printing) by inserting a piece of paper or cardboard under the type)
white out (widen the interlinear spacing by inserting leads)
word processing (rapid and efficient processing (storage and printing) of linguistic data for composition and editing)
serif; seriph (a short line at the end of the main strokes of a character)
descender ((printing) the part of lowercase letters that extends below the other lowercase letters)
ascender ((printing) the part of tall lowercase letters that extends above the other lowercase letters)
printing (the business of producing printed material for sale or distribution)
hair space ((printing) the narrowest of the spaces used to separate words or letters)
quad; space ((printing) a block of type without a raised letter; used for spacing between words or sentences)
impression; printing (all the copies of a work printed at one time)
proof; test copy; trial impression ((printing) an impression made to check for errors)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "printing"):
composition; typography (art and technique of printing with movable type)
letterpress; relief printing (printing from a plate with raised characters)
gravure; intaglio; intaglio printing (a printing process that uses an etched or engraved plate; the plate is smeared with ink and wiped clean, then the ink left in the recesses makes the print)
process printing (a method of printing colored reproductions from halftone plates)
planographic printing; planography (the process of printing from a surface on which the printing areas are not raised but are ink-receptive (as opposed to ink repellent))
offset; offset printing (a plate makes an inked impression on a rubber-blanketed cylinder, which in turn transfers it to the paper)
carbon process (a process of printing on paper coated with bichromated gelatin containing pigment)
Derivation:
print (put into print)
print (reproduce by printing)
II. (verb)
Sense 1
-ing form of the verb print
Context examples:
Cadmium chloride is used in electroplating, printing, photocopying, dyeing, mirrors, vacuum tubes, lubricants, analytical chemistry and as a chemical intermediate to produce cadmium containing pigments and stabilizers.
(Cadmium Chloride, NCI Thesaurus)
The word ‘Croydon’ has been originally spelled with an ‘i,’ which has been changed to ‘y.’ The parcel was directed, then, by a man—the printing is distinctly masculine—of limited education and unacquainted with the town of Croydon.
(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
They have had the art of printing, as well as the Chinese, time out of mind: but their libraries are not very large; for that of the king, which is reckoned the largest, does not amount to above a thousand volumes, placed in a gallery of twelve hundred feet long, whence I had liberty to borrow what books I pleased.
(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)
Companies looking to make bigger fabrication lines for perovskites have been trying to solve the problem of how to make the films more homogenous, but now we can show them that actually a simple inkjet printing process could do a better job.
(‘Messy’ production of perovskite material increases solar cell efficiency, University of Cambridge)
Ham, who had been giving me my first lesson in all-fours, was trying to recollect a scheme of telling fortunes with the dirty cards, and was printing off fishy impressions of his thumb on all the cards he turned.
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
The breakthrough is important because so far, bioengineering such as 3-D printing, can’t replicate the complex system of blood vessels in the human body that deliver the oxygen, nutrients, and essential molecules required for proper tissue growth.
(Human Heart Cells Grown on Spinach Leaves, VOA News)
The Art Services Shared Resource supports Cancer Center members by providing advice, customized design, and reproduction services to meet the needs of individual scientists, departments and educational programs for art, computer-imaging, graphics and photography services, including needs for scientific publications and presentations, printing, and audiovisual media.
(Illustration Graphic Art Publication and Audiovisual Service Shared Resource, NCI Thesaurus)
To reduce costs and accelerate manufacturing, fabrication of the stretchable sensor uses aerosol jet 3D printing.
(Stretchable wireless sensor could monitor healing of cerebral aneurysms, National Science Foundation)
Printing is a clumsy process.
(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
