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✋ A mark or impression 🖨️ To put on paper 📚 Not published 📸 A paper photo 📸 To make a photo 📰 Printed text 👗 Patterned fabric 🖨️ To make 3D object ✍️ To write clearly 🖼️ A pressed picture 🎬 A movie copy
to print

to print

65 3.6
To make a photo on paper from a negative or digital image
  • verb
  • /prɪnt/
: imprimir
  • I have the negative, of course, and I could have one printed up for you, if you like.
  • print an image
  • print a photograph
  • print directly

Examples

  • The cards had the word printed on the front and a short definition on the back.

    Academic text (2015)

  • On the cover, large black letters printed against a red background asked, "RECOVERY IN SIGHT?"

    Fiction book (1993)

  • I printed out some pictures and a complete business history.

    End Game (2006)

  • No, she hand drew it once and then we printed it on all the rest of them.

  • I'll print a photograph for you.

    Waste Land (2010)

  • They always print a nice, big photo with all the details I could ever want.

    The Black Phone (2022)

  • Each set is accompanied by a printed script, which the individual keeps for future reference.

    Academic text (1993)

  • And then I printed out a regular headshot but black and white.

    Victor Crowley (2017)

  • My mom got Charlie's face printed on these socks.

  • I will print a photograph for you from our trip to the beach.

Idioms

out of print
15 3.7

No longer sold by the publisher

Phrasal Verbs

to print over
  • Specialized
1 6.0

To put new text or color on something that already has a design

Compounds

fine print
39 4.4

Small printed text in a contract that tells important rules or extra costs

print media
  • Literature
13 3.5

Newspapers and magazines printed on paper, not online

print shop
8 2.8

A shop that makes posters, flyers and other paper copies for people

small print
6 3.8

Important details in an agreement or document printed in very small type

paw print
6 2.0

A mark left by an animal's foot showing claws or pads

print run
  • Literature
3 3.7

The number of copies made for one edition of a magazine, book or newspaper

licence to print money
  • UK
1 6.1

A situation that lets someone make a lot of money with little work

photographic print
  • Specialized
1 3.1

A picture on paper made from a camera or digital file

contact print
  • Specialized
1 6.1

A print made by putting a negative directly on photo paper, making the image the same size

silk screen print
  • Specialized
1 4.2

A picture created when someone pushes ink through a mesh screen onto paper or cloth

voice for print
  • Literature
1 6.8

A clear, polished way of writing for newspapers or magazines

print seller
1 3.7

A person or shop that sells art prints like etchings and engravings

daisy print wheel
  • Archaic
9.8

A round wheel with letters on spokes that prints letters on paper

print buffer
  • Specialized
5.6

A part of a computer that holds information waiting to be printed

roman print
  • Specialized
5.1

Upright printed letters used for normal text in books and newspapers

How Many

to run off
1 3.4
to print
65 3.6

Surface Forms

print infinitive
printed past
printed past participle
printing present participle
prints third person singular

Etymology

Print comes from the same idea of making an impression by 'pressing' ink or light onto paper; photographers kept this word when they began to make paper copies of their images, so to print a photo is to make that paper copy.