English noun: printing |
1. | printing (communication) text handwritten in the style of printed matter |
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| Broader (hypernym) | writing |
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2. | printing (act) the business of producing printed material for sale or distribution |
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| Broader (hypernym) | business, business enterprise, commercial enterprise |
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| Narrower (hyponym) | gravure, issue, publication |
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| Domain category | printing, printing process |
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| Domain category members | case, compositor's case, justify, typesetter's case |
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3. | printing (communication) reproduction by applying ink to paper as for publication |
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| Synonyms | printing process |
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| Broader (hypernym) | writing |
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| Narrower (hyponym) | carbon process, composition, gravure, intaglio, intaglio printing, letterpress, offset, offset printing, planographic printing, planography, process printing, relief printing, typography |
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| Domain category members | adscript, ascender, descender, hair space, impression, inferior, justified, kern, kern, leaded, live, printing, printing, proof, quad, serif, seriph, space, subscript, superior, superscript, test copy, trial impression, underlay, unleaded, white out, word processing |
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4. | printing (communication) all the copies of a work printed at one time |
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| Samples | They ran off an initial printing of 2000 copies.
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| Synonyms | impression |
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| Broader (hypernym) | publication |
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| Narrower (hyponym) | edition, mackle, proof, test copy, trial impression |
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| Domain category | printing, printing process |
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