printadj/pɹɪnt/

• 1

  Of, relating to, or writing for printed publications.

  • a print edition of a book

printverb/pɹɪnt/

• 1

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

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

  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

  To publish in a book, newspaper, etc.

  • How could they print an unfounded rumour like that?
  • From the moment he prints, he must expect to hear no more truth.
• 5

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

  • to print calico
• 6

  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.
  • Upon his breastplate he beholds a dint, / Which in that field young Edward's sword did print.
• 7

  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.
• 8

  slangTo inadequately conceal a weapon such that its outline or imprint is visible on the person wearing it.

printnoun/pɹɪnt/

• 1

  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

  Clear handwriting, especially, writing without connected letters as in cursive.

  • Write in print using block letters.
• 3

  The letters forming the text of a document.

  • The print is too small for me to read.
• 4

  A newspaper.

  • 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

  artsvisual-artvisual-artsA picture that was created in multiple copies by printing.

  • 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.