A mark or impression made in or on a surface by pressure: the print of footsteps in the sand. See Synonyms at impression.
A device or implement, such as a stamp, die, or seal, used to press markings onto or into a surface.
Something formed or marked by such a device.
Lettering or other impressions produced in ink as from type by a printing press or from digital fonts by an electronic printer.
Matter so produced; printed material.
Printed state or form.
A printed publication, such as a magazine or newspaper.
Printed matter.
A fabric or garment with a dyed pattern that has been pressed onto it, usually by engraved rollers.
The pattern itself.
Lettering or other impressions produced in ink as from type by a printing press or from digital fonts by an electronic printer.
Matter so produced; printed material.
Printed state or form.
A printed publication, such as a magazine or newspaper.
Printed matter.
A fabric or garment with a dyed pattern that has been pressed onto it, usually by engraved rollers.
The pattern itself.
A printed publication, such as a magazine or newspaper.
Printed matter.
A fabric or garment with a dyed pattern that has been pressed onto it, usually by engraved rollers.
The pattern itself.
A design or picture transferred from an engraved plate, wood block, lithographic stone, or other medium.
A photographic image transferred to paper or a similar surface, usually from a negative.
A copy of a film or movie made from a negative.
A fabric or garment with a dyed pattern that has been pressed onto it, usually by engraved rollers.
The pattern itself.
v.
print·ed, print·ing, prints
v.
tr.
To press (a mark or design, for example) onto or into a surface.
To make an impression on or in (a surface) with a device such as a stamp, seal, or die.
To press (a stamp or similar device) onto or into a surface to leave a marking.
To produce by means of pressed type, an electronic printer, or similar means, on a paper surface.
To offer in printed form; publish.
To produce by means of pressed type, an electronic printer, or similar means, on a paper surface.
To offer in printed form; publish.
To write (something) in characters similar to those commonly used in print.
To impress firmly in the mind or memory.
To produce a photographic image from (a negative, for example) by passing light through film onto a photosensitive surface, especially sensitized paper.
v.
intr.
To work as a printer.
To produce printed material.
To produce something in printed form by means of a printing press or other reproduction process.
To write characters similar to those commonly used in print.
To produce or receive an impression, marking, or image.
adj.
Of, relating to, writing for, or constituting printed publications: a print journalist; print coverage.
[Middle English preinte, from Old French, from feminine past participle of preindre, to press, alteration of prembre, from Latin premere; see per-4 in Indo-European roots.]
Ink\, n. [OE. enke, inke, OF. enque, F. encre, L. encaustum the purple red ink with which the Roman emperors signed their edicts, Gr. ?, fr. ? burnt in, encaustic, fr. ? to burn in. See Encaustic, Caustic.]1. A fluid, or a viscous material or preparation of various kinds (commonly black or colored), used in writing or printing. Make there a prick with ink. --Chaucer. Deformed monsters, foul and black as ink. --Spenser. 2. A pigment. See India ink, under India. Note: Ordinarily, black ink is made from nutgalls and a solution of some salt of iron, and consists essentially of a tannate or gallate of iron; sometimes indigo sulphate, or other coloring matter,is added. Other black inks contain potassium chromate, and extract of logwood, salts of vanadium, etc. Blue ink is usually a solution of Prussian blue. Red ink was formerly made from carmine (cochineal), Brazil wood, etc., but potassium eosin is now used. Also red, blue, violet, and yellow inks are largely made from aniline dyes. Indelible ink is usually a weak solution of silver nitrate, but carbon in the form of lampblack or India ink, salts of molybdenum, vanadium, etc., are also used. Sympathetic inks may be made of milk, salts of cobalt, etc. See Sympathetic ink (below). Copying ink, a peculiar ink used for writings of which copies by impression are to be taken. Ink bag (Zo["o]l.), an ink sac. Ink berry. (Bot.) (a) A shrub of the Holly family (Ilex glabra), found in sandy grounds along the coast from New England to Florida, and producing a small black berry. (b) The West Indian indigo berry. See Indigo. Ink plant (Bot.), a New Zealand shrub (Coriaria thumifolia), the berries of which uield a juice which forms an ink. Ink powder, a powder from which ink is made by solution. Ink sac (Zo["o]l.), an organ, found in most cephalopods, containing an inky fluid which can be ejected from a duct opening at the base of the siphon. The fluid serves to cloud the water, and enable these animals to escape from their enemies. See Illust. of Dibranchiata. Printer's ink, or Printing ink. See under Printing. Sympathetic ink, a writing fluid of such a nature that what is written remains invisible till the action of a reagent on the characters makes it visible.
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