单词 | overprint |
释义 | overprintn. 1. a. The action or result of overprinting (in various senses of the verb); words or other matter printed on to something already bearing print. Also: a postage stamp bearing overprinted matter in addition to the original design. ΘΚΠ society > communication > printing > manner or style of printing > [noun] > overprinting overprintingc1826 overprint1876 society > communication > printing > printed matter > [noun] > overprinted matter overprint1876 society > communication > printing > printed matter > [noun] > amount printed > excess overprint1876 overs1888 1876 Let. 6 Sept. in J. Easton De La Rue Hist. Brit. & Foreign Postage Stamps, 1855–1901 (1958) xxiv. 710 We should be furnished with the duties which are to fall in the stamps clearly written or printed, so that we might avoid mistakes in making the overprint. 1895 Jrnl. Amer. Geogr. Soc. N.Y. 27 343 Two printings are used. The first is a faint flat-tint of the standard color. The second, on the same areas, is a dark over-print of the standard color in parallel lines. 1899 Captain 1 421/2 The correct over-print should have been ‘Z.C. de peso’. 1912 E. Knecht & J. B. Fothergill Textile Printing vii. 319 Its darker colour will mask the paler tint of the over-print. 1965 Jrnl. Neurosurg. 13 346 The pulses received by the scaler may be recorded by statistical overprint with a telegraphic printer. 1984 J. Novacek Guide Stamp Collecting 61 Overprints are usually made to mark various important national and international events. 2002 Business Wire (Nexis) 8 Aug. Trade paperbacks..will also have a higher proportion of total publishing revenue. Other profitability enhancements include the elimination of overprints, [etc.]. b. Geology. In a rock formation: a new set of structural, isotopic, or magnetic features superimposed on an older set as a result of metamorphism. ΚΠ 1938 E. F. Knopf & E. Ingerson Struct. Petrol. xiv. 197 Upon this earlier movement there was stamped an oblique overprint of a later deformation, now recorded in the quartz fabric. 1964 Science 20 Nov. 1053/1 In the south of the Lake Timagami area, rather than being an overprint, Grenville metamorphism has profoundly reconstituted rocks of the Superior province. 1990 P. Kearey & F. J. Vine Global Tectonics ix. 204 Metamorphic terrains, in which a metamorphic overprint has destroyed the original stratigraphy. ΘΚΠ society > communication > printing > printed matter > [noun] > offprint deprint1885 offprint1885 overprint1892 1892 Church Times 11 Mar. 245/2 The paper sent to you was only an overprint from the ‘Archaeologia’. 1898 R. C. Clephan (title) Notes on the defensive armour of Medieval times. Overprint from the Archæologia Aeliana, Vol. xx. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2004; most recently modified version published online March 2022). overprintv. I. To print too much. 1. transitive and intransitive. To print too many copies of a (book, etc.). ΘΚΠ society > communication > printing > [verb (transitive)] > print in excess overprint?1823 1791 J. Boswell Let. 29 Jan. (1924) II. 416 [George] Steevens kindly tells me that I have over-printed, and that the curiosity about Johnson is now only in our own circle. ?1823 Ld. Byron Let. Apr. (1980) X. 133 I fear that you will overprint the Age of Bronze—I suppose the two thousand are as many as will be called for..you had better reduce the number in the next edition to 500. 1931 H. G. Wells Work, Wealth & Happiness Mankind (1932) ix. 353 The belligerent governments withdrew gold from internal circulation and resorted to the printing press to replace it. Each in its own measure overprinted. 1962 Which? Sept. 274/2 We always overprint and there are a few copies of this available if you should want it. 2002 Nation 20 May 2/1 The maturing of print-on-demand technology..means that publishers need not put a book out of print or overprint it by the hundreds or thousands. 2. transitive. Photography and Printing. To print (a photograph, illustration, etc.) darker than was intended. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > visual arts > photography > photographic processes > [verb (transitive)] > print > types of printing overprint1853 sun print1855 underprintc1865 to print out1882 to print down1923 to print in1929 1853 Family Herald 3 Dec. 510/2 He must over-print, or allow the positive to become very much darker than he intends it to be when finished, as in the..fixing, it will become much lighter. 1861 Photogr. News Almanac in J. Wylde Circle of Sci. (c1865) I. 155/2 It is necessary that the prints be considerably over~printed. 1990 Mountain Nov. 47/2 The diagrams..have been slightly overprinted and as a result have lost some of their delicacy. II. To print over. 3. a. transitive. To print additional matter on (a surface already bearing print); to mark by a subsequent printing process. ΘΚΠ society > communication > printing > manner or style of printing > style of printing [verb (transitive)] > overprint (matter) overprint1863 1863 in J. Easton De La Rue Hist. Brit. & Foreign Postage Stamps, 1855–1901 (1958) xii. 263 Printed first from the Sixpenny plate and afterwards overprinted one penny & fourpence. 1876 Let. 6 Sept. in J. Easton De La Rue Hist. Brit. & Foreign Postage Stamps, 1855–1901 (1958) xxiv. 710 As it is impossible to overprint the full sheet at one operation, and at the same time ensure the overprinted matter falling truly in the panels left blank for it, we could only overprint half the sheet at a time. 1899 Captain 1 187/1 The current stamps of Great Britain were overprinted with the company's name. 1912 E. Knecht & J. B. Fothergill Textile Printing vii. 319 Dry the goods well and then—(2) Over-print them with either a cover or pad roller in steam Alizarin red or pink. 1974 B.S.I. News Jan. 14 BSI is prepared to accept bulk orders for copies of any one standard and have the covers overprinted to the purchaser's requirements. 1987 V. Glendinning Rebecca West iv. vi. 147 Christmas cards were sent out, conventionally overprinted with greetings from Mr. and Mrs. Henry Andrews. b. transitive. To print (additional matter) on a surface already bearing print; to add by a subsequent printing process. ΘΚΠ society > communication > printing > manner or style of printing > style of printing [verb (transitive)] > overprint (matter) > a surface overprint1919 1919 Geogr. Rev. 8 358 The new boundaries are overprinted in red. 1926 C. F. D. Marshall Brit. Post Office i. vi. 54 On the 1st of January, 1883, the 3d...and 6d...made their appearance in lilac, with the value overprinted in carmine. 1938 E. Raisz Gen. Cartogr. xvii. 199 The French over~printed a network of even kilometer squares upon their maps. 1975 J. B. Harley Ordnance Survey Maps ii. 21 This grid..was overprinted on War Office editions of Ordnance Survey maps. 4. Geology. a. transitive. To superimpose (a new set of structural, isotopic, or magnetic features) on an older set in a rock formation. Chiefly in passive. ΚΠ 1937 Q. Jrnl. Geol. Soc. 93 583 There may be complete obliteration of the earlier fabric.., but frequently a second fabric is ‘overprinted’ on the earlier..without complete loss of the latter's characteristics. 1974 Nature 27 Sept. 296/2 Granite was part of a widespread event which overprinted any isotopic record of the early history of the gneisses in the area. 1982 Jrnl. Geophysical Res. B. 87 3849/1 East of work Channel lineament, high temperature, relatively low pressure assemblages are overprinted onto high pressure assemblages. b. transitive. To superimpose a new set of structural, isotopic, or magnetic features on (an older set) in a rock formation. Chiefly in passive. ΚΠ 1967 Q. Jrnl. Geol. Soc. 123 274 In the north-west corner of Sheet 10/iii at Lepeidere the A and B domains come together and both are ‘overprinted’ and partly obliterated by C tectonism. 1989 Science 24 Feb. 1043/1 Crystallization or chemical remanent magnetization..produced when a ferromagnetic mineral grows to stable single-domain (SD) size in the presence of a magnetic field commonly overprints part of the primary remanence of rocks. 1993 Jrnl. Petrol. 34 37 Many of these veins may represent fluid flow at or just after peak temperatures were attained in that prominent vein envelopes typically overprint metamorphic porphyroblasts. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2004; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1876v.1791 |
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