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

to print

58 4.4
To make a three-dimensional object from a digital model
  • verb
  • /prɪnt/
  • Specialized
translation icon : imprimir en 3D
  • Every PLA model in the present study was printed sequentially without any print failures.
  • print models
  • print blood vessels

But they can also print in other things like rubber.

Examples

  • Once we have that, this thing will print a replica of the necklace in zirconium.

    Ocean's Eight (2018)

  • Once you successfully answer all post-test questions, you will be able to view and/or print your certificate.

    Academic text (2013)

  • So this will print as a part of the body right?

  • Then you will print and be able to see what needs to be done.

    Academic text (2001)

  • So let me get on with that and print a load of them.

  • Inspired, we decided to print our own awesome thing.

  • OK, so next day now, and I've printed out some things here.

  • And it will be printed in the same way prototypes and one-of-a-kind parts are printed today.

    Academic text (2012)

  • Each Human-i-tees T-shirt is printed with fade-resistant designs on 100% heavyweight preshrunk cotton.

    Academic text (2001)

  • She used the 3D printer to print an intricate model of a city skyline.

Antonyms

to dismantle
64 4.2

Take something apart into separate pieces

Idioms

out of print
13 3.7

No longer sold by the publisher

Phrasal Verbs

to print over
  • Specialized
6.0

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

Compounds

fine print
37 4.4

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

print shop
9 2.8

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

print media
  • Literature
8 3.5

Newspapers and magazines printed on paper, not online

small print
5 3.8

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

paw print
4 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

photographic print
  • Specialized
1 3.1

A picture on paper made from a camera or digital file

contact print
  • Specialized
6.1

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

daisy print wheel
  • Archaic
9.8

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

licence to print money
  • UK
6.1

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

print buffer
  • Specialized
5.6

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

print seller
3.7

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

roman print
  • Specialized
5.1

Upright printed letters used for normal text in books and newspapers

silk screen print
  • Specialized
4.2

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

voice for print
  • Literature
6.8

A clear, polished way of writing for newspapers or magazines

Surface Forms

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

Etymology

Print originally meant to make an impression by 'pressing' and later came to mean making a physical copy; modern 3D printing keeps that idea by building a real object from a digital model, like making a new copy in three dimensions.