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Publishing vs Publish - What's the difference?

publishing | publish |

As verbs the difference between publishing and publish

is that publishing is while publish is (intransitive): to issue a medium (eg publication).

As a noun publishing

is the industry of publishing, including the production and distribution of books, magazines, web sites, newspapers, etc.

publishing

English

Noun

  • The industry of publishing, including the production and distribution of books, magazines, web sites, newspapers, etc.
  • Something published; a publication.
  • * 2002 , Elizabeth Blades-Zeller, A Spectrum of Voices
  • I read as much as I can: Journal of Singing, the Journal of Research in Singing, and the publishings of the Voice Foundation.

    Derived terms

    * publishing house * publishing date * publishing firm

    Verb

    (head)
  • 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 [GĂ©rard] 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    * publishable * publisher * unpublished