printedadj.
/ˈprɪntᵻd/, U.S. /ˈprɪn(t)ᵻd/ 1. † b. Of a ruff: (perhaps) with the pleats properly pressed or crimped. Cf. print adj.1 1b, print n. 7c. Obsolete.Used punningly by Jonson in allusion to the small print of Geneva Bibles, etc. (cf. Geneva print n.).
a. Impressed, stamped, marked; †moulded (obsolete).
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the world > food and drink > food > food manufacture and preparation > preparation for table or cooking > preparing pastry, biscuits, or cake > [adjective] > moulded or shaped
printed1480
1480 Table Prouffytable Lernynge (Caxton) (1964) 11 Of mylke soden with the flour Men make printed cakes.
1600 R. Surflet tr. C. Estienne & J. Liébault Maison Rustique vii. xxiv. 844 Their dung is printed, grosse, long and knottie.
1655 Duchess of Newcastle Worlds Olio 80 Fancy is like printed Wax..destroyed with a warm breath.
1730 E. Young Imperium Pelagi ii. 23 The Courser paws, and foams the rein; And Chariots stream along the printed Soil.
1792 T. Dermody Poems 92 I have..traced thy footstep o'er the printed sand.
a1811 J. Leyden Poet. Remains (1819) 357 On glancing step appears the fairy queen; The printed grass beneath springs soft and green.
1889 Hornellsville (N.Y.) Weekly Tribune 15 Feb. 3/1 She was..so wrinkled that her face seemed a very network of deeply-printed lines.
1970 W. S. Graham Coll. Poems (1979) 143 Poor friends I buried earlier under the printed snow.
1997 Albuquerque (New Mexico) Jrnl. (Nexis) 26 Feb. 1 (caption) Stapleton Elementary students..wash their feet after making a printed track of their footsteps during the Math and Science Expo.
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the world > textiles and clothing > clothing > types or styles of clothing > neck-wear > [adjective] > ruff > crimped
poked1593
print1600
printed1611
1611 in T. Coryate Crudities sig. a3v He [sc. Coryate] will shortly be reputed a Knowing, proper, & well traueld scholer, as by his starchd beard, and printed ruffe may be as properly insinuated.
1631 B. Jonson Bartholmew Fayre iii. ii. 35 in Wks. II Moo[ncalf]. [Of a party of Puritans.] A body may read that i' their small printed ruffes.
2.
a. Produced or prepared by a process of printing, using a printing press or the like; consisting of or containing print; expressed or published in print.
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society > communication > printing > [adjective] > printed
printc1475
printed1481
imprinted1561
wrought-off1683
worked-off1770
typographical1803
machine-printed1852
type-set1867
1481 Petty Customs Acct. in H. S. Cobb Overseas Trade of London (1990) 43 Prentyd [books].
1495 in L. Hellinga & J. B. Trapp Cambr. Hist. Bk. in Brit. (1999) III. vi. 158 98 bokes prynted.
1501 in J. B. Paul Accts. Treasurer Scotl. (1900) II. 21 To ane Franchman callit Bertholomo for prentit bukis bocht to the king, that is to say [etc.].
1511 in E. Hobhouse Church-wardens' Accts. (1890) 62 Item for a new processionary printed..xvjd.
1553 R. Eden in tr. S. Münster Treat. Newe India Ded. sig. aaijv A shiete of printed paper.
1648 T. Mayerne Let. 19 Sept. in Conway Lett. (1992) i. 20 If you found them in a printed book, let me know of it; but if they are in some manuscript, send it to me.
1665 Orders Ld. Mayor London in D. Defoe Jrnl. Plague Year (1722) 52 With these usual printed Words..Lord have Mercy upon us.
1709 Lady M. W. Montagu Let. 21 Aug. (1965) I. 11 I don't see any violent necessity of printed rules.
1759 N.Y. Mercury 13 Aug. (advt.) A great collection of wrote and printed Musick from Italy and England.
1841 I. D'Israeli Amenities Lit. I. 342 The first printed book in the English language was not printed in England.
1863 ‘G. Eliot’ Romola III. xxv. 269 There were obvious facts that at once threw discredit on the printed document.
1894 P. H. Hunter James Inwick vi I likit weel to hear him propheseein the ruin o' the kintra: he reeled it aff like a prentit buik.
1937 H. Jennings et al. May 12th Mass-observ. Day-surv. iv. 318 Inside, besides the printed communication from the Cambridge Preservation Society, I found a sealed envelope.
1988 Lit. & Theol. 2 259 Their submission of poetry, prose or drama in the English course was presented in printed form, set up and illustrated in the Graphics Department by themselves.
2004 Independent 23 Oct. 17 Library visits have declined by 17 per cent over five years and the volume of printed items borrowed by a whopping 22 per cent.
b. Of a writer: whose works are available in print. Cf. published adj. 1b.
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society > leisure > the arts > literature > writer or author > [adjective] > having published works
printed1609
published1864
1609 Bp. W. Barlow Answer Catholike English-man sig. A3 If hee So requite me, and quote the printed Authors, I open my selfe vnto Him, and will indure Them.
1654 T. White Apol. Rushworth's Dialogues 2nd Ded. I would undertake to shew out of their printed Writers, that they doe not, with any universality, maintain those tenets I contradict.
1720 tr. L. E. Du Pin Compl. Method Studying Divinity xxiii. 247 A learned and judicious Professor better understands how to adapt his Discourses to the Capacity of his Disciples, than a printed Author can possibly do.
1749 B. Wakefield Warbling Muses p. ix In my Extracts from our printed Poets, I have not borrow'd so largely, as can give any Proprietor just Room for Complaint.
1820 M. Shelley Let. 29 Dec. (1980) I. 171 I am enclined to think that in the perfection in which he [sc. ‘an improvvisatore’] possesses this art it is by no means an inferior power to that of a printed poet.
1893 W. G. Collingwood Life & Work J. Ruskin I. v. 56 He was quite an artist; and a printed poet!
1929 C. McWilliams Ambrose Bierce Introd. 10 There was absolutely no demand for a collected edition at the time it was published; it was out of all relation to Bierce's fame or importance... Who was this magnificently printed author?
1999 Popular Music & Soc. (Nexis) 23 83 English Departments need to reassess their commitment to obscure modern printed poets.
c. the printed word: printed or published material, considered collectively; print as a medium.
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society > communication > printing > printed matter > [noun]
print1507
typography1644
matter1683
presswork1728
printed matter1836
the printed word1846
literature1859
printing ink1904
print-work1919
1846 N. Brit. Rev. May 152 This country came in for its share of the early importation of Tyndale's New Testament... As usual, the printed word was soon followed by the living voice.
1886 Times 1 Mar. 10/1 The human voice can recall the wandering attention while the printed word has no such means of self-assertion.
1910 Encycl. Brit. I. 833/2 Literature, in the sense of the printed word, has had a great career in America;..nowhere has the power of the printed word ever been so great.
1954 Communications & Electronics Nov. 40/1 Telex..is for the printed word what the telephone exchange system is for the spoken word.
1994 Face Sept. 33/4 Latest bid to end the printed word as we know it: the E-book.
3. Of textiles, pottery, etc.: having colour or decoration applied by a process of printing. Cf. print v. 13, 14.
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society > leisure > the arts > visual arts > ornamental art and craft > pattern or design > [adjective] > types of pattern or design generally
stained1397
trailed1490
printed1535
rebesk?a1549
arabesque1731
arabesqued1817
tropical1852
hand-printed1856
repeating1863
society > communication > printing > publishing > [adjective] > published > of a writer
printed1888
1535 Wardrobe Acct. Henry VIII in Archaeologia (1789) 9 247 It'm for making of a gown of crymsen printed satten.
1633 H. Wotton Let. 3 June in Reliquiæ Wottonianæ (1672) 464 I send you herewith two printed Caps... The Caps is a pretty fresh invention of a very easie rate;..which may come to some pretty perfection in the ornament of Curtains and Valances of Beds.
1711 Boston News-let. 22 Oct. 2/2 To be Sold on reasonable Terms..Woolen and worsted Hose, printed Linnen, Felt Hats [etc.].
1758 B. Franklin Let. 19 Feb. in Wks. (1887) III. 7 Seven yards of printed cotton.
1791 W. Hamilton tr. C.-L. Berthollet Elements Art of Dyeing I. Introd. 2 A mode..we use for colouring printed linens.
1839 A. Ure Dict. Arts 1028 The blue printed ware of England has been hitherto a hopeless object of emulation in France.
1888 W. Black In Far Lochaber viii I've bought each o' them a printed cotton gown.
1925 Woman's World (Chicago) Apr. 28/3 Of printed cotton or tub silk, this little one-piece dress will give much satisfactory service.
1958 G. Norman-Wilcox in H. Comstock Conc. Encycl. Amer. Antiques 222 Only one more example of American printed ware deserves mention, a late blue platter, Pickett's Charge, Gettysburg.
1992 Ships Monthly Apr. 10/3 Specialising in stitched flags, the loft can supply printed flags if required, as well as flag poles and any similar accessories.
4. nature-printed: see nature-printed adj.
5. Electronics. Designating circuits and components manufactured by a method analogous to printing. Chiefly in printed circuit n., printed circuit board n. at Compounds 1.
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the world > matter > physics > electromagnetic radiation > electronics > electronic phenomena > electronic circuit > [adjective]
coupledc1440
inductive-coupled1913
closed circuit1941
printed1946
bistable1949
astable1951
busy-idle1951
monolithic1963
optocoupled1976
1946 Business Week 23 Feb. 19/2 On the back of the plate are solder spots that connect through holes in the plate with the ‘printed’ circuit.
1946 Sci. News Let. 2 Mar. 133 ‘Printed wire’, the new development that reduces wiring radio circuits to a two-dimensional lithographic process.
1966 McGraw-Hill Encycl. Sci. & Technol. (rev. ed.) X. 596/2 Printed capacitors are fabricated as part of the conductor circuit pattern when a high dielectric constant ceramic..is used as the circuit base material.
1977 Gramophone Nov. 960/3 Normally these would flex the board during transit, with the possibility of cracking the printed wiring.
2003 Solid State Electronics 47 841 The fabrication process and the characteristics of the printed capacitor and RC filter have been demonstrated.
6. Electronics. Of a signal: produced on magnetic tape by print-through.
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society > communication > record > recording or reproducing sound or visual material > sound recording and reproduction > [adjective] > produced by accidental transfer of signals
printed1950
1950–1 B.B.C. Quarterly 5 245/1 In an investigation of accidental printing, one of the main difficulties is in measuring printed signals which are more than 50 db lower in level than the recorded signal, but are closely spaced about it on the tape.
1962 A. Nisbett Technique Sound Studio iv. 84 (caption) Wavelength of original and printed signal.
1988 M. Camras Magn. Recording Handbk. ii. 77 The unwound tape between reels seems to lose part of the printed signal.
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printed circuit n. Electronics a circuit in the form of a pattern of thin conducting strips and components bonded to a flat board or (more recently) film of insulating material, usually mass-produced by a method that involves photo-etching or electrodeposition.
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the world > matter > physics > electromagnetic radiation > electronics > electronic phenomena > electronic circuit > [noun] > printed circuit
printed circuit1946
1946 Business Week 23 Feb. 19/2 On the back of the plate are solder spots that connect through holes in the plate with the ‘printed’ circuit.
1975 T. Brooke-Taylor et al. Goodies' Bk. Criminal Rec. 19/3 Trace the pattern of the Printed circuit on to a sheet of inert matrix covered with a conducting layer of copper film, then etch the pattern with Hydrofluoric Acid.
2002 A. Milne Sky Static ix. 115 Space engineers feel they are launching an ungainly insect-shaped object..inside which exists a messy storeroom of millions of wires, printed circuits, and computer components.
printed circuit board n. Electronics a thin board or card carrying a printed circuit.
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1957 Electronics 1 Aug. 169 Control device with almost indefinite life and operated from socket power is mounted on a printed-circuit board.
1970 J. Earl How to choose Tuners & Amplifiers vi. 141 The vast majority of tuner-amplifiers are now transistored, the designs being based on printed circuit boards..and sometimes integrated circuits.
1996 D. Burrluck & J. Seabury in P. Trynka Rock Hardware 28/2 An increasing number of small companies have sprung up to satisfy those purists who want to bypass printed circuit boards and opt for the uncompromising hand-wired construction of the late 1940s and 1950s.
printed circuitry n. Electronics printed circuits collectively; the components of a printed circuit.
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the world > matter > physics > electromagnetic radiation > electronics > electronic phenomena > electronic circuit > [noun] > printed circuit > collectively
printed circuitry1952
1952 Proc. IRE 40 1524 (title) Printed circuitry for transistors.
1971 Engineering Apr. 30/1 The introduction of solid-state electronics and printed circuitry to vending machinery has minimized the number of separate electrical relays required.
2000 CircuiTree Oct. 116 Flexible printed circuitry (FPC) is produced in an immense range of sizes and complexities,..from tiny two-conductor sensor bits..to huge, multilayer military rigid-flexes.
printed matter n. leaflets, papers, cards, circulars, etc., that are printed; frequently attributive with reference to a cheaper rate of postage charged on such items (and sometimes for certain other categories of material).
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society > communication > printing > printed matter > [noun]
print1507
typography1644
matter1683
presswork1728
printed matter1836
the printed word1846
literature1859
printing ink1904
print-work1919
society > communication > correspondence > postal services > [noun] > types of service
printed paper1553
letter post1660
penny post1680
general post1687
parcel post1790
penny postage1798
twopenny post1811
twopenny1818
printed matter1836
parcel delivery1837
bangy1842
book post1848
special delivery1865
V.P.P.1888
express delivery1891
rural free delivery1891
certified mail1955
recorded delivery1960
Mailgram1969
freepost1970
1818 Times 31 Dec. 4/2 (advt.) It is hoped that the feature will recommend the Fireside Magazine to the notice of friends of literature in general. Each number will contain..pages of closely printed matter for one shilling.]
1836 N. Amer. Rev. Jan. 242 We have collected..from a large mass of printed matter..a variety of facts respecting the production and commerce of anthracite coal.
1876 in Jrnl. Royal Soc. Arts (1976) May 343/1 I am directed by the Council of this Society respectfully to draw your Lordship's attention to the anomaly which exists with reference to the conveyance of printed matter by the post, owing to the distinction which the Post-office makes between the book post and the newspaper post.
1892 Woodland (Calif.) Daily Democrat 4 Mar. 3/1 Circulars, etc., printed in such close imitation of typewriting that it cannot be readily distinguished therefrom, may not be sent by mail at ‘printed matter’ rate.
1915 Gleaner (Kingston, Jamaica) 5 Aug. 14/3 Packets passing through the post..by letter or printed matter mail..are detained for examination and collection of import duty.
1957 C. Brooke-Rose Lang. of Love 32 Two newspapers and three letters for her lay on the hall table. One was only printed matter, and one an unsealed invitation.
2005 Asia Pulse (Nexis) 4 Mar. Yamato's deliveries segment..includes door-to-door parcel and printed-matter mail delivery services.
printed paper n. paper on which something has been printed, printed matter, esp. (in later use) as eligible for a special rate of postage (cf. printed matter n.); (as a count noun) a printed document.
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society > communication > correspondence > postal services > [noun] > types of service
printed paper1553
letter post1660
penny post1680
general post1687
parcel post1790
penny postage1798
twopenny post1811
twopenny1818
printed matter1836
parcel delivery1837
bangy1842
book post1848
special delivery1865
V.P.P.1888
express delivery1891
rural free delivery1891
certified mail1955
recorded delivery1960
Mailgram1969
freepost1970
1553 R. Eden in tr. S. Münster Treat. Newe India sig. aaiiv There chaunsed of late to come to my handes, a shiete of printed paper, (more worthy so to bee called then a boke) entytuled of the newe founde landes.
1630 J. Taylor Wks. 72 The Stationer that liues, and gaineth well..I know not which way he could liue and eate, If printed paper did not yeeld him meat.
1744 Philos. Trans. 1740–41 (Royal Soc.) 41 673 In the Year 1628, by a printed Paper produced before you, it appears, that this Fuel was known in England at that Time.
1842 Times 23 Aug. 7/2 A second count charged the prisoner with stealing 586lb. of printed paper.
1897 Post Office Guide July 375 The Articles which are entitled to be sent at the rate applicable to Printed Papers are mostly impressions or copies obtained upon paper, parchment, or cardboard, [etc.].
1960 G. A. Glaister Gloss. Bk. 28/2 Fox marks and certain apparently indelible stains on printed paper can be removed by bleaching.
2005 Morning Star (Nexis) 2 Apr. 2 Royal Mail has decided that the newpaper registration scheme..is..to be abolished. This is the scheme that allows for a printed paper rate, enabling publications to be circulated next day at second-class rates.
C2. With adverbs.
printed-out adj. Photography designating or relating to an image produced without chemical development; cf. to print out 1 at print v. Phrasal verbs.
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society > leisure > the arts > visual arts > photography > a photograph > [adjective] > photograph by process
snapshot1892
printed-out1900
cameraless1903
filtered1928
1900 Proc. Royal Soc. 1899–1900 66 492 Not only can an invisible developable image be obtained, as was done by Moser, but by prolonging the exposure printed-out impressions are produced.
1934 Jrnl. Optical Soc. Amer. 24 316/1 Weigert found that if shorter exposures than were required to produce a printed-out image were given..the image rendered visible by suitable development was dichroic.
1976 K. I. Jacobson & R. E. Jacobson Imaging Syst. ii. 55 The colour of the printed out silver is usually reddish purple.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2007; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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