Print vs Press - What's the difference?
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print
Of, relating to, or writing for printed publications.
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.
To produce a microchip (an integrated circuit) in a process resembling the printing of an image.
(ambitransitive) To write very clearly, especially, to write without connecting the letters as in cursive.
(ambitransitive) To publish in a book, newspaper, etc.
* Alexander Pope
To stamp or impress (something) with coloured figures or patterns.
To fix or impress, as a stamp, mark, character, idea, etc., into or upon something.
* Surrey
* Sir John Beaumont
* Roscommon
To stamp something in or upon; to make an impression or mark upon by pressure, or as by pressure.
* Dryden
(uncountable) Books and other material created by printing presses, considered collectively or as a medium.
(uncountable) Clear handwriting, especially, writing without connected letters as in cursive.
(uncountable) The letters forming the text of a document.
A visible impression on a surface.
A fingerprint.
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.
(lb) A device used to apply pressure to an item.
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(lb) A collective term for the print-based media (both the people and the newspapers).
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(lb) (especially in Ireland and Scotland) An enclosed storage space (e.g. closet, cupboard).
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An exercise in which weight is forced away from the body by extension of the arms or legs.
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*:This is the fourth set of benchpresses. There will be five more; then there will be five sets of presses on an inclined bench.
An additional bet in a golf match that duplicates an existing (usually losing) wager in value, but begins even at the time of the bet.
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(lb) Pure, unfermented grape juice.
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A commission to force men into public service, particularly into the navy.
*(William Shakespeare) (1564-1616)
*:I have misused the king's press .
(ambitransitive) to exert weight or force against, to act upon with with force or weight
to compress, squeeze
to clasp, hold in an embrace; to hug
to reduce to a particular shape or form by pressure, especially flatten or smooth
(sewing) To flatten a selected area of fabric using an iron with an up-and-down, not sliding, motion, so as to avoid disturbing adjacent areas.
to drive or thrust by pressure, to force in a certain direction
(obsolete) to weigh upon, oppress, trouble
to force to a certain end or result; to urge strongly, impel
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To try to force (something upon someone); to urge or inculcate.
* Dryden
* Addison
to hasten, urge onward
to urge, beseech, entreat
to lay stress upon, emphasize
(ambitransitive) to throng, crowd
(obsolete) to print
To force into service, particularly into naval service.
* Dryden
In transitive terms the difference between print and press
is that print is to stamp something in or upon; to make an impression or mark upon by pressure, or as by pressure while press is to lay stress upon, emphasize.In ambitransitive terms the difference between print and press
is that print is to publish in a book, newspaper, etc while press is to throng, crowd.In uncountable terms the difference between print and press
is that print is the letters forming the text of a document while press is a collective term for the print-based media (both the people and the newspapers).As an adjective print
is of, relating to, or writing for printed publications.English
Adjective
(-)Verb
(en verb)- Print the draft double-spaced so we can mark changes between the lines.
- The circuitry is printed onto the semiconductor surface.
- Print your name here and sign below.
- I'm only in grade 2, so I only know how to print .
- How could they print an unfounded rumour like that?
- From the moment he prints , he must expect to hear no more truth.
- to print calico
- A look will print a thought that never may remove.
- Upon his breastplate he beholds a dint, / Which in that field young Edward's sword did print .
- some footsteps printed in the clay
- Forth on his fiery steed betimes he rode, / That scarcely prints the turf on which he trod.
Derived terms
* printer * printing form * printing pressNoun
(en noun)- Three citations are required for each meaning, including one in print .
- TV and the internet haven't killed print .
- Write in print using block letters.
- The print is too small for me to read.
- Using a crayon, the girl made a print of the leaf under the page.
- Did the police find any prints at the scene?
Antonyms
* (writing without connected letters) cursiveDerived terms
* fine print * fingerprint * footprint * in print * newsprint * out of print * pawprint * printmaking * printout * small print * thumbprintExternal links
* (Print) ----press
English
Etymology 1
(etyl) ).Noun
The Mirror and the Lamp, passage=From another point of view, it was a place without a soul. The well-to-do had hearts of stone; the rich were brutally bumptious; the Press , the Municipality, all the public men, were ridiculously, vaingloriously self-satisfied.}}
Keeping the mighty honest, passage=British journalists shun complete respectability, feeling a duty to be ready to savage the mighty, or rummage through their bins. Elsewhere in Europe, government contracts and subsidies ensure that press barons will only defy the mighty so far.}}
Synonyms
* (storage space) closet, cupboard, wardrobe (British ) * (printing machine) printing pressDerived terms
* alternative press * bench press * fruit press * press cake * press gang * press-mark * press officer * press secretary * shoulder press * trouser pressEtymology 2
(etyl) .Verb
- to press fruit for the purpose of extracting the juice
- She took her son, and press'd
- The illustrious infant to her fragrant breast'' (''Dryden , Illiad, VI. 178.)
- to press cloth with an iron
- to press a hat
- to press a crowd back
- He turns from us;
- Alas, he weeps too! Something presses him
- He would reveal, but dare not.-Sir, be comforted.'' (''Fletcher , Pilgrim, I. 2.)
- The two gentlemen who conducted me to the island were pressed by their private affairs to return in three days.
- to press the Bible on an audience
- He pressed a letter upon me within this hour.
- Be sure to press upon him every motive.
- to press a horse in a race
- God heard their prayers, wherein they earnestly pressed him for the honor of his great name.'' (''Winthrop , Hist. New England, II. 35)
- If we read but a very little, we naturally want to press it all; if we read a great deal, we are willing not to press the whole of what we read, and we learn what ought to be pressed and what not.'' (''M. Arnold , Literature and Dogma, Pref.)
- To peaceful peasant to the wars is pressed .
Quotations
* (English Citations of "press")Synonyms
* *Derived terms
* press charges * press onSee also
* hot press (baking, laundry) * hot off the press (printing) * press downReferences
*Entry for the imperfect and past participlein Webster's dictionary * *