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What is the difference between announce and publish?

announce | publish |

Publish is a synonym of announce.



In transitive terms the difference between announce and publish

is that announce is to pronounce; to declare by judicial sentence while publish is : To announce to the public.

announce

English

Verb

(announc)
  • (label) To give public notice, or first notice of; to make known; to publish; to proclaim.
  • * (convert into real quote) (1724-1804)
  • Her [Queen Elizabeth’s] arrival was announced through the country by a peal of cannon from the ramparts.
  • *{{quote-book, year=1927, author= F. E. Penny
  • , chapter=4, title= Pulling the Strings , passage=Soon after the arrival of Mrs. Campbell, dinner was announced by Abboye. He came into the drawing room resplendent in his gold-and-white turban. […] His cummerbund matched the turban in gold lines.}}
  • *{{quote-magazine, date=2013-06-08, volume=407, issue=8839, page=55, magazine=(The Economist)
  • , title= Obama goes troll-hunting , passage=The solitary, lumbering trolls of Scandinavian mythology would sometimes be turned to stone by exposure to sunlight. Barack Obama is hoping that several measures announced on June 4th will have a similarly paralysing effect on their modern incarnation, the patent troll.}}
  • (label) To pronounce; to declare by judicial sentence.
  • * (Matthew Prior) (1664-1721)
  • Publish laws, announce / Or life or death.

    Synonyms

    * proclaim, publish, make known, herald, declare, promulgate

    Derived terms

    *

    publish

    Verb

    (es)
  • (intransitive): To issue a medium (e.g. publication).
  • * {{quote-magazine, date=2013-08-16, author= David Larousserie
  • , volume=189, issue=10, page=35, magazine=(The Guardian Weekly) , title= Super-lasers blaze knowledge frontier , passage=In an article published in 2008 [Gérard] Mourou proposed an alternative means of achieving atomic fusion. He now believes that fibre lasers could be used to transmute elements, as a way of disposing of highly radioactive waste from nuclear power stations.}}
  • (transitive): To issue something (usually printed work) for sale and distribution.
  • (transitive): To announce to the public.
  • (Internet) To convert data of a Web page to HTML in a local directory and copy it to the Web site on a remote system.
  • (intransitive): To write in a publication (usually as an academic).
  • Derived terms

    * publishable * publisher * unpublished