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Cursive vs Printing - What's the difference?

cursive | printing |

As nouns the difference between cursive and printing

is that cursive is a cursive character, letter or font while printing is the process or business of producing printed material by means of inked type and a printing press or similar technology.

As an adjective cursive

is running; flowing.

As a verb printing is

present participle of lang=en.

cursive

English

(wikipedia cursive)

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • Running; flowing.
  • Having successive letters joined together.

    • Noun

    (en noun)
  • A cursive character, letter or font.
  • A manuscript written in cursive characters.

    • Antonyms

    * print

    Derived terms

    * cursively * cursiveness

    See also

    * handwriting * italic * longhand * shorthand ----

    printing

    English

    (wikipedia printing)

    Noun

  • (uncountable) The process or business of producing printed material by means of inked type and a printing press or similar technology.
  • (uncountable) Material that has been printed.
  • (countable) All the copies of a publication that have been printed in one batch.
  • (uncountable) Written characters that are not joined up.

    • Verb

    (head)