different between print vs predate

English

Etymology

From Middle English *printen, prenten, preenten, an apheretic form of emprinten, enprinten (“to impress; imprint”) (see imprint). Compare Dutch prenten (“to imprint”), Middle Low German prenten (“to print; write”), Danish prente (“to print”), Swedish prenta (“to write German letters”). Compare also Late Old French printer, preindre (“to press”), from Latin premere (“to press”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /p??nt/
• Rhymes: -?nt

Adjective

print (not comparable)

1. Of, relating to, or writing for printed publications.

Verb

print (third-person singular simple present prints, present participle printing, simple past and past participle printed)

1. (transitive) To produce one or more copies of a text or image on a surface, especially by machine; often used with out or off: print out, print off.

2. To produce a microchip (an integrated circuit) in a process resembling the printing of an image.

3. (transitive, intransitive) To write very clearly, especially, to write without connecting the letters as in cursive.

4. (transitive, intransitive) To publish in a book, newspaper, etc.
5. (transitive) To stamp or impress (something) with coloured figures or patterns.

6. (transitive) To fix or impress, as a stamp, mark, character, idea, etc., into or upon something.
7. (transitive) To stamp something in or upon; to make an impression or mark upon by pressure, or as by pressure.

   • Forth on his fiery steed betimes he rode, / That scarcely prints the turf on which he trod.

8. (computing, transitive) To display a string on the terminal.
9. (finance, transitive, intransitive) To produce an observable value.

Derived terms

• printed matter
• printer
• printing form
• printing press

Translations

Noun

print (countable and uncountable, plural prints)

1. (uncountable) Books and other material created by printing presses, considered collectively or as a medium.

2. (uncountable) Clear handwriting, especially, writing without connected letters as in cursive.

3. (uncountable) The letters forming the text of a document.

4. (countable) A newspaper.
5. A visible impression on a surface.

6. A fingerprint.

7. A footprint.
8. (visual art) A picture that was created in multiple copies by printing.
9. (photography) A photograph that has been printed onto paper from the negative.
10. (film) A copy of a film that can be projected.
11. Cloth that has had a pattern of dye printed onto it.
12. (architecture) A plaster cast in bas relief.

Antonyms

• (writing without connected letters): cursive

Derived terms

Translations

Further reading

• Print on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Cebuano

Etymology

Borrowed from English print.

Verb

print

1. To print; to print out or off; to produce one or more copies of a text or image on a surface, especially by machine.

Dutch

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -?nt

Verb

print

1. first-, second- and third-person singular present indicative of printen
2. imperative of printen

Portuguese

Etymology

Probably from English Print Screen.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?p??.t(?)(i)/

Noun

print m (plural prints)

1. (Internet slang, nonstandard) screenshot

   Synonyms: captura de ecrã, captura de tela, screenshot, Print Screen

Related terms

• printar

Serbo-Croatian

Etymology

Borrowed from English print.

Noun

print m (Cyrillic spelling ?????)

1. Output of a computer printer.

Derived terms

• pr?ntati

English

Etymology 1

From pre- +? date

Alternative forms

• pre-date

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?p?i??de?t/, /?p?i??de?t/

Verb

predate (third-person singular simple present predates, present participle predating, simple past and past participle predated)

1. To designate a date earlier than the actual one; to move a date, appointment, event, or period of time to an earlier point (contrast "postdate".)
2. (transitive) To exist or to occur before something else; to antedate.

Synonyms

• (to designate a date earlier): antedate, backdate, foredate; see also Thesaurus:backdate
• (to occur before something else): antedate; see also Thesaurus:predate

Antonyms

• (to designate a date earlier): overdate, postdate; see also Thesaurus:overdate
• (to occur before something else): postdate

Translations

Noun

predate (plural predates)

1. A publication, such as a newspaper or magazine, that is issued with a printed date later than the date of issue.

Etymology 2

Back-formation from predation or predator.

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /p???de?t/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /p???de?t/

Verb

predate (third-person singular simple present predates, present participle predating, simple past and past participle predated)

1. To prey upon something.

Synonyms

• (to prey upon): prey

Related terms

• predation
• depredation
• predator

Translations

References

• predate at OneLook Dictionary Search
• predate in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.

Anagrams

• adepter, pad-tree, readept, red tape, redtape, retaped, tapered

Italian

Verb

predate

1. second-person plural present indicative of predare
2. second-person plural imperative of predare
3. feminine plural of predato