different between print vs xylograph

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

Back-formation from xylography, corresponding to xylo- (“wood”) +? -graph.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /?za?.l??.????f/, /?za?.l?.????f/
• (US) IPA^(key): /?za?.lo?.????f/, /?za?.l?.????f/

Noun

xylograph (plural xylographs or xylographica)

1. An engraving in wood or woodcut, especially one used in printing predating the Western tradition (14th c.).

   Synonym: woodcut

   • 2009, Kurtis R. Schaeffer, The Culture of the Book in Tibet, Columbia University Press (?ISBN)

     First he collected a number of witnesses, including many old prints of the Guhyasam?ja Tantra itself and old xylograph prints of the Pradipodyotana from the monasteries of Drepung, Tashilhunpo, Riwo Dangchen, and Nartang.

2. A print taken from such an engraving.
   • 2011, Udo J. Hebel, Christoph Wagner, Pictorial Cultures and Political Iconographies: Approaches, Perspectives, Case Studies from Europe and America, Walter de Gruyter (?ISBN), page 143:

     While Walter Gropius had had a reproduction of a xylograph from Lyonel Feininger reproduced on the Bauhaus movement's founding manifesto in 1919 – a symbolic image of a gothic cathedral that was comparatively traditional in both form […]

   • 2014, Sang-jin Park, Under the Microscope: The Secrets of the Tripitaka Koreana Woodblocks, Cambridge Scholars Publishing (?ISBN), page 1:

     The restoration process brought to light a sarira box containing an artifact that rewrote that history: the oldest xylograph in the world, reproduced in ink from woodblocks with characters carved in relief, was found inside the box from the second […]

Translations

Verb

xylograph (third-person singular simple present xylographs, present participle xylographing, simple past and past participle xylographed)

1. (transitive) To make a print from an engraving in wood.

Translations

Related terms

• xylographer
• xylographic
• xylographical
• xylography