To make words or pictures on paper using a machine with ink.
To produce text, images, or designs on paper or another surface by pressing ink onto it using a machine such as a printer or printing press.
A piece of paper with words or pictures made by a printer.
A copy of text, an image, or a design produced by printing on paper or another surface.
Words and letters as they look when printed on paper.
The letters, symbols, and spacing of text as presented in printed form.
A picture or pattern made on cloth, paper, etc. by printing.
A decorative pattern or design applied to fabric, paper, or other materials by printing.
To write letters by hand without joining them together.
To write letters by hand in separate block form instead of using cursive script.
- Base: print
- Plural: print, prints
- Base: print
- 3rd Person Singular: prints
- Present Participle: printing
- Past: printed
in print
1available as published material
When a book, magazine, etc. is still being made and sold by its publisher.
- Her first novel is still in print after 20 years.
- That book is no longer in print and hard to find.
out of print
1no longer available as published material
When a book, magazine, etc. is no longer made or sold by its publisher.
- Many of his early works are out of print now.
- The cookbook went out of print last year.
read the fine print
1carefully read small contract details
To read all the small details in a contract or agreement before agreeing to it.
- Always read the fine print before you sign anything.
- He didn't read the fine print and ended up paying extra fees.