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Design vs Print - What's the difference?

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As nouns the difference between design and print

is that design is design (creative profession or art) while print is (uncountable) books and other material created by printing presses, considered collectively or as a medium.

As an adjective print is

of, relating to, or writing for printed publications.

As a verb print is

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.

design

English

(wikipedia design)

Noun

(en noun)
  • A plan (with more or less detail) for the structure and functions of an artifact, building or system.
  • A pattern, as an element of a work of art or architecture.
  • The composition of a work of art.
  • Intention or plot.
  • * M. Le Page Du Pratz, History of Louisisana (PG), p. 40:
  • I give it you without any other design than to shew you that I reckon nothing dear to me, when I want to do you a pleasure.
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  • The shape or appearance given to an object, especially one that is intended to make it more attractive.
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  • The art of designing
  • Danish furniture design is world-famous.

    Derived terms

    * architectural design * design by contract * design pattern * hardware design * software design

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • (obsolete)  To assign, appoint (something to someone); to designate.
  • * 1646 , (Thomas Browne), Pseudodoxia Epidemica , I.10:
  • he looks not below the Moon, but hath designed the regiment of sublunary affairs unto inferiour deputations.
  • * Dryden
  • He was designed to the study of the law.
  • To plan and carry out (a picture, work of art, construction etc.).
  • * {{quote-book, year=1963, author=(Margery Allingham)
  • , title=(The China Governess) , chapter=1 citation , passage=The huge square box, parquet-floored and high-ceilinged, had been arranged to display a suite of bedroom furniture designed and made in the halcyon days of the last quarter of the nineteenth century, when modish taste was just due to go clean out of fashion for the best part of the next hundred years.}}
    Primitive people believe that gods designed the Earth and humans.
  • (obsolete) To mark out and exhibit; to designate; to indicate; to show; to point out; to appoint.
  • * Shakespeare
  • We shall see / Justice design the victor's chivalry.
  • * Beaumont and Fletcher
  • Meet me to-morrow where the master / And this fraternity shall design .

    Anagrams

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    print

    English

    Adjective

    (-)
  • Of, relating to, or writing for printed publications.
  • Verb

    (en verb)
  • 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.
  • Print the draft double-spaced so we can mark changes between the lines.
  • To produce a microchip (an integrated circuit) in a process resembling the printing of an image.
  • The circuitry is printed onto the semiconductor surface.
  • (ambitransitive) To write very clearly, especially, to write without connecting the letters as in cursive.
  • Print your name here and sign below.
    I'm only in grade 2, so I only know how to print .
  • (ambitransitive) To publish in a book, newspaper, etc.
  • How could they print an unfounded rumour like that?
  • * Alexander Pope
  • From the moment he prints , he must expect to hear no more truth.
  • To stamp or impress (something) with coloured figures or patterns.
  • to print calico
  • To fix or impress, as a stamp, mark, character, idea, etc., into or upon something.
  • * Surrey
  • A look will print a thought that never may remove.
  • * Sir John Beaumont
  • Upon his breastplate he beholds a dint, / Which in that field young Edward's sword did print .
  • * Roscommon
  • some footsteps printed in the clay
  • To stamp something in or upon; to make an impression or mark upon by pressure, or as by pressure.
  • * Dryden
  • Forth on his fiery steed betimes he rode, / That scarcely prints the turf on which he trod.

    Derived terms

    * printer * printing form * printing press

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (uncountable) Books and other material created by printing presses, considered collectively or as a medium.
  • Three citations are required for each meaning, including one in print .
    TV and the internet haven't killed print .
  • (uncountable) Clear handwriting, especially, writing without connected letters as in cursive.
  • Write in print using block letters.
  • (uncountable) The letters forming the text of a document.
  • The print is too small for me to read.
  • A visible impression on a surface.
  • Using a crayon, the girl made a print of the leaf under the page.
  • A fingerprint.
  • Did the police find any prints at the scene?
  • A footprint.
  • (visual art) A picture that was created in multiple copies by printing.
  • (photography) A photograph that has been printed onto paper from the negative.
  • (motion pictures) A copy of a film that can be projected.
  • Cloth that has had a pattern of dye printed onto it.
  • Antonyms

    * (writing without connected letters) cursive

    Derived terms

    * fine print * fingerprint * footprint * in print * newsprint * out of print * pawprint * printmaking * printout * small print * thumbprint