printing ink see under print

sling ink (derog sl)

1. To write
2. To earn one's living by writing
3. To engage in controversy

print /print/

1. An impression
2. A mould or stamp
3. Printed state
4. Printed characters or lettering
5. An edition
6. A printed copy
7. A printed picture
8. An engraving
9. A newspaper
10. A positive photograph made from a negative (or negative from positive)
11. A fingerprint
12. A printed cloth, esp calico stamped with figures
13. A plaster-cast in low relief (architecture)
14. A moulded pat of butter
15. Exactitude of plaiting, crimping, or setting (a ruff, hair, etc) (archaic)
16. Exactitude (archaic)

1. Printed (obsolete)
2. Of printed cotton

1. To place (characters, etc) on paper, etc, by means of types, plates or blocks or by other methods
2. To reproduce (text or pictures) by such means or methods
3. To cause to be so reproduced
4. To publish (a book, article, etc)
5. To press (something) into a yielding surface, so as to leave an indented mark
6. To impress (a surface)
7. To mark (a figure, design, etc) in or on a surface by pressure
8. To stamp a pattern on or transfer it to (eg a textile)
9. To produce as a positive picture from a negative, or as a negative from a positive (photography)
10. To write in separated, as opposed to joined-up, characters, in the manner of typography
11. To express in writing (Shakespeare)
12. To designate in print (Milton)
13. To fix or impress (a scene, etc) indelibly (on the memory, etc)

1. To practise the art of printing
2. To publish a book
3. To yield an impression or (photography) a positive, etc
4. To write in separated characters, in typographic style

printabilˈity noun

printˈable adjective

1. Capable of being printed
2. Fit to print

printˈer noun

1. Someone or something that prints
2. Someone who is employed in printing books, etc
3. Any of a variety of devices for printing eg telegraph messages, photographs, the output from a computer, etc
4. A cotton cloth made for printing

printˈery noun

A printing house

printˈing noun

1. The act, art or business of the printer
2. The whole number of copies printed at one time, an impression
3. Handwriting in which a space is left between each character

printˈless adjective

Receiving or leaving no impression

printed circuit noun

A wiring circuit, free of loose wiring, formed by printing the design of the wiring on copper foil bonded to a flat base and etching away the unprinted foil

printed circuit board noun

The combined circuit and supporting base

printer's devil see under devil

printer's ink noun

Printing ink

printer's mark noun

An engraved device used by printers as a trademark

printer's pie noun

1. A jumble of indiscriminately mixed type (printing)
2. Any confused jumble

printˈhead or printˈing-head noun

The part or unit in a printer that does the work of reproducing characters on paper

printing house noun

An establishment where books, etc are printed

printing ink noun

Ink used in printing, a usu thickish mixture of pigment (such as carbon black) with oil and sometimes varnish

printing machine noun

A printing press worked by power

printing office noun

A printing house (qv above)

printing paper noun

A paper suitable for printing purposes

printing press noun

A machine by which impressions are taken in ink upon paper from types, plates, etc

printˈmaker noun

A worker who produces prints

printˈout noun

The printed information or output from a computer, etc

print run noun

The number of copies of a book, newspaper, etc, printed at a time

printˈ-seller noun

A seller of prints or engravings

print shop noun

A print-seller's shop

printˈ-through noun

1. The degree to which matter printed on one side of paper, etc is visible from the other side (printing)
2. In magnetic tape recordings, the transfer of a recording from one layer to another when the tape is wound on a spool

printˈworks noun

An establishment where cloth is printed

in print

1. (of a text, etc) existing in printed form
2. (of a book) printed and still available from a publisher
3. (of hair or a ruff, etc) in exact order, formally set, crimped, pleated or plaited (obsolete)

out of print

1. No longer in print
2. No longer available from a publisher

print out

1. To print
2. To produce a printout of