printing

English

Etymology

By surface analysis, print +‎ -ing.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈpɹɪntɪŋ/

Noun

printing (countable and uncountable, plural printings)

2. (uncountable) The process or business of producing printed material by means of inked type and a printing press or similar technology.

   Synonym: imprintery (obsolete)

   In those days, printing was big business in this city. Giant web-fed presses churned out countless tons of printed matter annually.

4. (uncountable) Synonym of printed matter.

   They delivered a huge batch of printing yesterday, so you can expect an invoice shortly.

6. (countable) Synonym of print run (“all the copies of a publication that have been printed in one batch”).

   She owns a copy of the first printing, which is a favorite among book collectors because some of the typos in it seem like Freudian slips.

8. (uncountable) Handwritten characters that are not joined up.

   Antonym: cursive

   Hypernym: handwriting

   The instructions said, "Please sign your name and then print your name below your signature," so he wrote out his name underneath in the neatest printing that his hand could muster.

Derived terms

• 3D printing
• block printing
• carbon printing
• lenticular printing
• nature printing
• non-printing
• offset printing
• pad printing
• printing form
• printing frame
• printing house
• printing-house
• printing in
• printing ink
• printing out
• printing press
• printing roll
• printing shop
• rat printing office
• relief printing
• rotary printing press
• screen printing
• silk-screen printing
• skip printing
• stretch printing
• viscosity printing
• woodblock printing

Translations

the process or business of producing printed material — see also typography

• Arabic: طِبَاعَة (ar) f (ṭibāʕa)
• Armenian: տպագրություն (hy) (tpagrutʻyun), տպում (hy) (tpum), գրատպություն (hy) (gratputʻyun)
• Belarusian: друкава́нне n (drukavánnje), друк m (druk), друка́рства n (drukárstva)
• Bulgarian: печа́тарство n (pečátarstvo)
• Catalan: impressió (ca) f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 印刷 (zh) (yìnshuā)

• Czech: tisk (cs) m
• Dutch: boekdrukkunst (nl) f, drukkunst (nl) f
• Finnish: kirjapainotaito (fi)
• French: imprimerie (fr) f
• German: Drucken (de) n, Druck (de) m
• Greek: τυπογραφία (el) f (typografía)
• Gujarati: છાપકામ (gu) (chāpkām)
• Irish: clódóireacht m
• Japanese: 印刷 (ja) (いんさつ, insatsu)
• Korean: 인쇄 (ko) (inswae)
• Kyrgyz: мөөр (ky) (möör)
• Macedonian: печатење n (pečatenje)
• Malay: pencetakan
• Ottoman Turkish: باصمه (basma), طبع (tabʼ)
• Persian: چاپ (fa) (čâp)
• Polish: drukarstwo (pl) n, druk (pl) m
• Portuguese: impressão (pt)
• Romanian: tipar (ro), tipografiere, imprimerie (ro)
• Russian: печа́тание (ru) n (pečátanije), печа́ть (ru) f (pečátʹ)
• Slovene: tiskanje n
• Spanish: impresión (es) f
• Swahili: uchapaji
• Ukrainian: друкува́ння n (drukuvánnja), друк m (druk), друка́рство n (drukárstvo)
• Vietnamese: in ấn (vi)

material that has been printed

• Malay: cetakan (ms)
• Ottoman Turkish: باصمه (basma)
• Romanian: tipăritură (ro)
• Ukrainian: друк m (druk)

all the copies of a publication that have been printed in one batch

• Bulgarian: тираж (bg) m (tiraž)
• Danish: oplag n
• Dutch: oplage (nl) f
• Finnish: painos (fi)
• French: tirage (fr) m
• German: Auflage (de) f
• Italian: tiratura (it) f
• Macedonian: тира́ж m (tiráž)
• Norwegian: opplag (no)
• Portuguese: tiragem (pt) f
• Spanish: tirada (es) f
• Swedish: upplaga (sv) c
• Ukrainian: наклад m (naklad), тираж m (tyraž)

written characters not joined up

• Ukrainian: відбиток m (vidbytok)

Verb

printing

1. present participle and gerund of print
2. (Can we clean up⁽⁺⁾ this sense?) To inadequately carry a concealed weapon such that its silhouette is visible on the person wearing it.