1. [n]  a printed picture produced from a photographic negative
2. [n]  a picture or design printed from an engraving
3. [n]  a fabric with a dyed pattern pressed onto it (usually by engraved rollers)
4. [n]  the result of the printing process
5. [adj]  written in print characters or produced by means of e.g. a printing press
6. [v]  put into print; "The newspaper published the news of the royal couple's divorce"; "These news should not be printed"
7. [v]  write as if with print; not cursive
8. [v]  reproduce by printing
9. [v]  make into a print

1. \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.
   
            A look will print a thought that never may remove.
                                                  --Surrey.
   
            Upon his breastplate he beholds a dint, Which in
            that field young Edward's sword did print. --Sir
                                                  John Beaumont.
   
            Perhaps some footsteps printed in the clay.
                                                  --Roscommon.
   
   2. To stamp something in or upon; to make an impression or
      mark upon by pressure, or as by pressure.
   
            Forth on his fiery steed betimes he rode, That
            scarcely prints the turf on which he trod. --Dryden.
   
   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.
   
   4. To stamp or impress with colored figures or patterns; as,
      to print calico.
   
   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.
   
   {Printed goods}, textile fabrics printed in patterns,
      especially cotton cloths, or calicoes.
   
   

2. \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.
   
   2. To publish a book or an article.
   
            From the moment he prints, he must except to hear no
            more truth.                           --Pope.
   
   

3. \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.
   
            Where print of human feet was never seen. --Dryden.
   
   2. A stamp or die for molding or impressing an ornamental
      design upon an object; as, a butter print.
   
   3. That which receives an impression, as from a stamp or
      mold; as, a print of butter.
   
   4. Printed letters; the impression taken from type, as to
      excellence, form, size, etc.; as, small print; large
      print; this line is in print.
   
   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.
   
   6. (Founding) A core print. See under {Core}.
   
   {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.
   
   

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An early mathematics language for the ibm 705.

[Sammet 1969, p. 134].