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発音

• enPR: prĭnt, IPA: /pɹɪnt/
• 韻: -ɪnt

形容詞

print (not comparable)

1. Of, relating to, or writing for printed publications.

   a print edition of a book

動詞

print (third-person singular simple present prints, present participle printing, simple past and past participle printed)

1. (transitive) To produce one or more copies of a text or image on a surface, especially by machine.

   Hyponyms: print out, print off

   Print the draft double-spaced so we can mark changes between the lines.

   • 2023 June 8, Richard Collett, “He ran out of countries to visit, so he created his own”, in CNN‎:

     Two years on, and while the Sultan of Slowjamastan has instigated more than a few bizarre laws (he’s outlawed the wearing of Crocs, for example), the Republic also has all the trappings of a fledgling nation-state. It issues its own passports, flies its own flag, prints its own currency (“the duble”), and has a national anthem that’s played on state occasions.

2. To produce a microchip (an integrated circuit) in a process resembling the printing of an image.

   The circuitry is printed onto the semiconductor surface.

3. (ambitransitive) To write very clearly, especially, to write without connecting the letters as in cursive.

   Print your name here and sign below.

   I'm only in grade 2, so I only know how to print.

4. (ambitransitive) To publish in a book, newspaper, etc.

   How could they print an unfounded rumour like that?

   • 1716, Alexander Pope, The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope, Preface:

     From the moment he prints, he must expect to hear no more truth.

5. (transitive) To stamp or impress (something) with coloured figures or patterns.

   to print calico

6. (transitive) To fix or impress, as a stamp, mark, character, idea, etc., into or upon something.
   • c. 1547?, Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey, Description of the Fickel Affections, Pangs, and Slights of Love:

     A look will print a thought that never may remove.

   • 1629, Sir John Beaumont, Bosworth Field:

     Upon his breastplate he beholds a dint, / Which in that field young Edward's sword did print.

   • 1701, Wentworth Dillon, 4th Earl of Roscommon, Silenus:

     some footsteps printed in the clay

7. (transitive) To stamp something in or upon; to make an impression or mark upon by pressure, or as by pressure.
   • 1697, Virgil, “Palamon and Arcite”, in John Dryden, transl., The Works of Virgil: Containing His Pastorals, Georgics, and Æneis. […], London: […] Jacob Tonson, […], →OCLC:

     Forth on his fiery steed betimes he rode, / That scarcely prints the turf on which he trod.

8. (intransitive, slang) To inadequately conceal a weapon such that its outline or imprint is visible on the person wearing it.
9. (computing, transitive) To display a string on the terminal.
   • 2010, Chuck Easttom, Advanced JavaScript, Jones & Bartlett Learning, →ISBN, page 217:

     However, when you print the string you can see only 11 characters (c, a, r, ', s,, w, h, e, e, l).

   • 2015, Othmar Kyas, How To Smart Home: A Step by Step Guide to Your Personal Internet of Things, Key Concept Press, →ISBN:

     On the RHS side we write the current date to the variable date and print it to the terminal window, followed by the string "Chris coming home...." .

10. (finance, ambitransitive) To produce an observable value.

    On March 16, 2020, the S&P printed at 2,386.13, one of the worst drops in history.

11. (transitive) To fingerprint (a person).
    • 1998, Eric Lustbader, Pale Saint, page 24:

      Maybe we'll get lucky; maybe he was printed for some minor infraction in some backwater town.

Conjugation

派生語

名詞

print (countable and uncountable, plural prints)

1. (uncountable) Books and other material created by printing presses, considered collectively or as a medium.

   Three citations are required for each meaning, including one in print.

   TV and the Internet haven't killed print.

2. (uncountable) Clear handwriting, especially, writing without connected letters as in cursive.

   Write in print using block letters.

3. (uncountable) The letters forming the text of a document.

   The print is too small for me to read.

4. (countable) A newspaper.
   • 1978, Philip Larkin, The Winter Palace:

     I spent my second quarter-century
     Losing what I had learnt at university
     And refusing to take in what had happened since.
     Now I know none of the names in the public prints […]

5. A visible impression on a surface.

   Using a crayon, the girl made a print of the leaf under the page.

6. A fingerprint.

   Did the police find any prints at the scene?

7. A footprint.
8. (visual art) A picture that was created in multiple copies by printing.
   • 1957 August, “Notes and News: Tithebarn Street Station, Liverpool”, in Railway Magazine, page 589:

     An old print was discovered some time ago in an arch at Waterloo Dock Goods Station[,] Liverpool, in use as a backing on which to write time sheets.

9. (photography) A photograph that has been printed onto paper from the negative.
10. (film) A copy of a film that can be projected.
11. Cloth that has had a pattern of dye printed onto it.
    • 1838 (date written), L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], “(please specify the page)”, in Lady Anne Granard; or, Keeping up Appearances. […], volume I, London: Henry Colburn, […], published 1842, →OCLC, pages 20–21:

      The poor are very unreasonable; a kind look and word often go farther in winning upon their affection than even a piece of coarse flannel, or a remnant of dark print.

12. (architecture) A plaster cast in bas relief.
13. (finance) A datum.
    • 2023, Ilia Bouchouev, Virtual Barrels : Quantitative Trading in the Oil Market, Springer, →ISBN, page 150:

      The reference index is calculated using monthly CPI prints but with a lag of between two and three months.

14. (Can we verify this sense?) A pattern or design.
    • 2013, Boles, Jennifer, The peak of chic‎, New York : Clarkson Potter, page 117:

      Many designers consider leopard print rugs and carpeting to be classic floor coverings whose popularity spans centuries and continents.

同意語

• (a printed work): imprintery (obsolete)

反意語

• (antonym(s) of “writing without connected letters”): cursive

派生語

Further reading

• Print on Wikipedia.Wikipedia