Friday, 03 August 2012
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print \print\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Printed; p. pr. & vb. n. Printing.] [Abbrev. fr. imprint. See Imprint, and Press to squeeze.] 1. To fix or impress, as a stamp, mark, character, idea, etc., into or upon something. [1913 Webster]
A look will print a thought that never may remove. --Surrey. [1913 Webster]
Upon his breastplate he beholds a dint, Which in that field young Edward's sword did print. --Sir John Beaumont. [1913 Webster]
Perhaps some footsteps printed in the clay. --Roscommon. [1913 Webster]
2. To stamp something in or upon; to make an impression or mark upon by pressure, or as by pressure. [1913 Webster]
Forth on his fiery steed betimes he rode, That scarcely prints the turf on which he trod. --Dryden. [1913 Webster]
3. Specifically: To strike off an impression or impressions of, from type, or from stereotype, electrotype, or engraved plates, or the like; in a wider sense, to do the typesetting, presswork, etc., of (a book or other publication); as, to print books, newspapers, pictures; to print an edition of a book. [1913 Webster]
4. To stamp or impress with colored figures or patterns; as, to print calico. [1913 Webster]
5. (Photog.) To take (a copy, a positive picture, etc.), from a negative, a transparent drawing, or the like, by the action of light upon a sensitized surface. [1913 Webster]
Printed goods, textile fabrics printed in patterns, especially cotton cloths, or calicoes. [1913 Webster] -
print \print\, v. i. 1. To use or practice the art of typography; to take impressions of letters, figures, or electrotypes, engraved plates, or the like. [1913 Webster]
2. To publish a book or an article. [1913 Webster]
From the moment he prints, he must except to hear no more truth. --Pope. [1913 Webster] -
print \print\, n. [See print, v., Imprint, n.] 1. A mark made by impression; a line, character, figure, or indentation, made by the pressure of one thing on another; as, the print of teeth or nails in flesh; the print of the foot in sand or snow. [1913 Webster]
Where print of human feet was never seen. --Dryden. [1913 Webster]
2. A stamp or die for molding or impressing an ornamental design upon an object; as, a butter print. [1913 Webster]
3. That which receives an impression, as from a stamp or mold; as, a print of butter. [1913 Webster]
4. Printed letters; the impression taken from type, as to excellence, form, size, etc.; as, small print; large print; this line is in print. [1913 Webster]
5. That which is produced by printing. Specifically: (a) An impression taken from anything, as from an engraved plate. "The prints which we see of antiquities." --Dryden. (b) A printed publication, more especially a newspaper or other periodical. --Addison. (c) A printed cloth; a fabric figured by stamping, especially calico or cotton cloth. (d) A photographic copy, or positive picture, on prepared paper, as from a negative, or from a drawing on transparent paper. [1913 Webster]
6. (Founding) A core print. See under Core. [1913 Webster]
Blue print, a copy in white lines on a blue ground, of a drawing, plan, tracing, etc., or a positive picture in blue and white, from a negative, produced by photographic printing on peculiarly prepared paper.
In print. (a) In a printed form; issued from the press; published. --Shak. (b) To the letter; with accurateness. "All this I speak in print." --Shak.
Out of print. See under Out.
print works, a factory where cloth, as calico, is printed. [1913 Webster] - print n 1: the text appearing in a book, newspaper, or other printed publication; "I want to see it in print" 2: a picture or design printed from an engraving 3: a visible indication made on a surface; "some previous reader had covered the pages with dozens of marks"; "paw prints were everywhere" [syn: mark, print] 4: availability in printed form; "we've got to get that story into print"; "his book is no longer in print" 5: a copy of a movie on film (especially a particular version of it) 6: a fabric with a dyed pattern pressed onto it (usually by engraved rollers) 7: a printed picture produced from a photographic negative [syn: photographic print, print] v 1: put into print; "The newspaper published the news of the royal couple's divorce"; "These news should not be printed" [syn: print, publish] 2: write as if with print; not cursive 3: make into a print; "print the negative" 4: reproduce by printing [syn: print, impress]
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<language> PRe-edited INTerpreter.
An early mathematics language for the IBM 705.
[Sammet 1969, p. 134].
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print v.
To output, even if to a screen. If a hacker says that a program "printed a message", he means this; if he refers to printing a file, he probably means it in the conventional sense of writing to a hardcopy device (compounds like `print job' and `printout', on the other hand, always refer to the latter). This very common term is likely a holdover from the days when printing terminals were the norm, perpetuated by programming language constructs like C's printf(3). See senses 1 and 2 of tty.
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