different between print vs vestige

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

From French vestige, from Latin vest?gium (“footstep, footprint, track, the sole of the foot, a trace, mark”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?v?.st?d??/

Noun

vestige (plural vestiges)

1. The mark of the foot left on the earth.

   Synonyms: trace, sign, track, footstep

2. (by extension) A faint mark or visible sign left by something which is lost, or has perished, or is no longer present.

   Synonym: remains
3. (biology) A vestigial organ; a non-functional organ or body part that was once functional in an evolutionary ancestor.
   • 1904 Transactions of the […] annual session, Volume 40, Homeopathic Medical Society of the State of Pennsylvania, p160

     Any person seeing such a condition could not help being frightened at the conditions found, and it seems to me that that fact should lead us to think that the appendix is a vestige or becoming so.

   • 1932 John Arthur Thomson, Riddles of science, Ayer Publishing, p824

     Now this paired organ of Jacobsen began in reptiles and is well developed in many mammals. But in man it is a vestige, often disappearing altogether; and the two openings are closed.

   • 2007 R. Randal Bollingera, Andrew S. Barbasa, Errol L. Busha, Shu S. Lina, & William Parkera, "Biofilms in the large bowel suggest an apparent function of the human vermiform appendix," Journal of Theoretical Biology

     This idea was confirmed by Scott, who performed a detailed comparative analysis of primate anatomy and demonstrated conclusively that the appendix is derived for some unidentified function and is not a vestige.

Derived terms

• vestigial

Translations

See also

• hint
• trace

Further reading

• vestige in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• vestige in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.

Dutch

Pronunciation

Verb

vestige

1. (archaic) singular present subjunctive of vestigen

Anagrams

• stevige

French

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin vest?gium.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /v?s.ti?/

Noun

vestige m (plural vestiges)

1. vestige, relic

Derived terms

• vestigial

Further reading

• “vestige” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).