printing
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1.1
- noun
- /ˈprɪntɪŋ/
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- To the surprise of almost everyone involved, it was successful enough to warrant a second printing that same year.
- first printing
- a printing of copies
So God knows how many printings it's gone through at this point.
- So God knows how many printings it's gone through at this point.
Examples
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Then I picked it up and noticed that it was in its seventy-eighth printing!
Fiction book (1999) -
"Three months after its release, How to Be a Jewish Mother was in its fourth printing.
Academic text (2010) -
The entire first printing will always be available.
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Three years after publication, my book is in its second printing and still selling all over the world.
Academic text (2009) -
The current cover is for the first "Kickstarter" printing only; subsequent printings will have an alternate cover.
Blog text (9) -
Lange's Cochiti volume carries a copyright and first printing date of 1959, with a Library of Congress number in 1958.
Academic text (1990) -
The first two printings of Tree Men of Quazzak had sold less than thirty thousand paperback copies.
Fiction book (1991) -
With its laudatory account creating a pantheon of heroes, it sold very well, going through three printings by 1931.
Academic text (2005) -
For the most part, we encounter these orphans only through reproductions, editions, many successive printings, and performances.
Academic text (2007) -
The most popular volume, Love Letters, sold out its first printing of more than 20,000 copies.
Synonyms
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4.8
The copies of a book printed at the same time
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3.7
The number of copies made for one edition of a magazine, book or newspaper
Compounds
- Formal
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4.8
A former U.S. agency that printed and bound official government documents
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6.8
A United States government office that designs and prints paper money and other secure government papers
- Specialized
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4.9
A printing method that transfers ink from a metal plate to a rubber sheet and then to paper
- Archaic
A printing method that uses a glass plate covered in gelatin to make very detailed photos, sometimes in color
- Specialized
A printing method that moves an image from a raised plate to a roller before printing on material
- Specialized
A printing method where an image is cut into a metal plate and the cuts hold ink to make prints
- Specialized
A printing method where you press ink on raised parts of a block onto paper
- Specialized
A printing method that uses a metal plate and a rubber sheet to print images on paper
- Specialized
A printing method using a flat surface where ink sticks to some parts and not others
A former U.S. government agency that printed and bound official documents for Congress and other federal offices
A former government office that made and put together official United States documents for Congress and federal departments
How Reproducible
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Printing comes from Latin imprimere 'to press', and a 'printing' originally meant the copies made in one run on the press. So a first printing is a set of copies of a book or paper produced at the same time.