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PUBLICATION
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
The business of issuing printed matter for sale or distribution
Synonyms:
Classified under:
Nouns denoting acts or actions
Hypernyms ("publication" is a kind of...):
business; business enterprise; commercial enterprise (the activity of providing goods and services involving financial and commercial and industrial aspects)
Domain member category:
headline (provide (a newspaper page or a story) with a headline)
index (provide with an index)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "publication"):
desktop publishing ((computer science) the use of microcomputers with graphics capacity to produce printed materials)
republication; republishing (the act of publishing again)
contribution (a writing for publication especially one of a collection of writings as an article or story)
serialisation; serialization (publication in serial form)
Derivation:
publish (prepare and issue for public distribution or sale)
publish (put into print)
Sense 2
Meaning:
The communication of something to the public; making information generally known
Classified under:
Nouns denoting acts or actions
Hypernyms ("publication" is a kind of...):
communication (something that is communicated by or to or between people or groups)
Sense 3
Meaning:
The act of issuing printed materials
Synonyms:
issue; publication
Classified under:
Nouns denoting acts or actions
Hypernyms ("publication" is a kind of...):
printing (the business of producing printed material for sale or distribution)
Derivation:
publish (prepare and issue for public distribution or sale)
publish (put into print)
Sense 4
Meaning:
A copy of a printed work offered for distribution
Classified under:
Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents
Hypernyms ("publication" is a kind of...):
piece of work; work (a product produced or accomplished through the effort or activity or agency of a person or thing)
Meronyms (parts of "publication"):
contents; table of contents (a list of divisions (chapters or articles) and the pages on which they start)
text; textual matter (the words of something written)
cartoon; sketch (a humorous or satirical drawing published in a newspaper or magazine)
art; artwork; graphics; nontextual matter (photographs or other visual representations in a printed publication)
facing pages; spread; spread head; spreadhead (two facing pages of a book or other publication)
format (the general appearance of a publication)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "publication"):
reissue; reprint; reprinting (a publication (such as a book) that is reprinted without changes or editing and offered again for sale)
new edition (a publication (such as a book) that has been modified or updated and offered again for sale)
book (a written work or composition that has been published (printed on pages bound together))
volume (a publication that is one of a set of several similar publications)
read (something that is read)
impression; printing (all the copies of a work printed at one time)
collection; compendium (a publication containing a variety of works)
periodical (a publication that appears at fixed intervals)
mag; magazine (a periodic publication containing pictures and stories and articles of interest to those who purchase it or subscribe to it)
tip sheet (a publication containing the latest information or tips or predictions for a particular business or stock market information or horse racing results, etc.)
reference; source (a publication (or a passage from a publication) that is referred to)
republication (something that has been published again; a fresh publication (as of a literary work))
Derivation:
publish (prepare and issue for public distribution or sale)
publish (have (one's work) issued for publication)
publish (put into print)
Context examples:
The program supports clinical trials and other appropriate research, fosters technological development, and encourages the publication of scientific findings and adoption of early detection practices.
(Early Detection Branch, NCI Thesaurus)
These UGR researchers have produced more than five joint scientific publications in high-impact journals and have secured two patents—on mechano-mutable asphalt (PCT/ES2014/071002) and pavement safety systems (P201631096).
(Scientists design “smart” asphalts with magnetic materials for safer electric scooters, University of Granada)
The lack of publications from Interphone, and the lack of budgetary consistency still haven't been addressed.
(Health threats caused by mobile phone radiation, EUROPARL TV)
A doctoral degree earned with the approval of a committee on the basis of original research and publications.
(Doctor of Science, NCI Thesaurus)
Nonfictional prose forming an independent part of a publication.
(Article, NCI Thesaurus)
This includes rights regarding publication, confidential information, ownership, use of data, intellectual property, and indemnification.
(Clinical Trial Agreement, NCI Thesaurus)
In spite of his being allowed once more to live, however, he did not feel the continuance of his existence secure, till he had revealed his present engagement; for the publication of that circumstance, he feared, might give a sudden turn to his constitution, and carry him off as rapidly as before.
(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)
I have brought you a book for evening solace, and he laid on the table a new publication—a poem: one of those genuine productions so often vouchsafed to the fortunate public of those days—the golden age of modern literature.
(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)
I wrote a Story, with a purpose growing, not remotely, out of my experience, and sent it to Traddles, and he arranged for its publication very advantageously for me; and the tidings of my growing reputation began to reach me from travellers whom I encountered by chance.
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
Any adverse event associated with a medical product or procedure, whose nature and severity have been previously observed, identified in nature, severity, or frequency, and documented in the investigator brochure, investigational plan, protocol, current consent form, scientific publication, or in other relevant and reliable document.
(Expected Adverse Event, NCI Thesaurus)
