Print vs Prink - 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.
the act of adjusting dress or appearance; a sprucing up
* 2006 , Louisa May Alcott, Little Women :
to look, gaze
to dress finely, primp, preen, spruce up
to strut, put on pompous airs, be pretentious
As verbs the difference between print and prink
is that 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 while prink is (obsolete|or|dialectal) to give a wink; to wink or prink can be to look, gaze.As nouns the difference between print and prink
is that print is (uncountable) books and other material created by printing presses, considered collectively or as a medium while prink is the act of adjusting dress or appearance; a sprucing up.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) ----prink
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) . More at .Etymology 2
Perhaps alteration (due to primp) of , (etyl) and (etyl) prunk.Noun
(en noun)- [...] And does my hair look very bad?", said Meg, as she turned from the glass in Mrs. Gardiner's dressing room after a prolonged prink .
