Noun
printing (countable and uncountable, plural printings)
- (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.
Synonyms
- (the art of making prints): imprintery (obsolete)
Translations
the process or business of producing printed material
— see also typography
- Arabic: طِبَاعَة (ar) f (ṭibāʕa)
- Armenian: տպագրություն (hy) (tpagrutʻyun), տպում (hy) (tpum), գրատպություն (hy) (gratputʻyun)
- Belarusian: друкава́нне n (drukavánnje), друк m (druk), друка́рства n (drukárstva)
- Bulgarian: печа́тарство n (pečátarstvo)
- Catalan: impressió (ca) f
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 印刷 (zh) (yìnshuā)
- Czech: tisk (cs) m
- Dutch: boekdrukkunst (nl) f, drukkunst (nl) f
- Finnish: kirjapainotaito (fi)
- French: imprimerie (fr) f
- German: Drucken (de) n, Druck (de) m
- Greek: τυπογραφία (el) f (typografía)
- Gujarati: છાપકામ (gu) (chāpkām)
- Irish: clódóireacht m
- Japanese: 印刷 (ja) (いんさつ, insatsu)
- Korean: 인쇄 (ko) (inswae)
- Kyrgyz: мөөр (ky) (möör)
- Macedonian: печатење n (pečatenje)
- Malay: pencetakan
- Ottoman Turkish: طبع (tabʼ)
- Persian: چاپ (fa) (čâp)
- Polish: drukarstwo (pl) n, druk (pl) m
- Portuguese: impressão (pt)
- Romanian: tipar (ro), tipografiere, imprimerie (ro)
- Russian: печа́тание (ru) n (pečátanije), печа́ть (ru) f (pečátʹ)
- Slovene: tiskanje n
- Spanish: impresión (es) f
- Swahili: uchapaji
- Ukrainian: друкува́ння n (drukuvánnja), друк m (druk), друка́рство n (drukárstvo)
- Vietnamese: in ấn (vi)
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material that has been printed
all the copies of a publication that have been printed in one batch
written characters not joined up
Verb
printing
- present participle and gerund of print
- (Can we clean up(+) this sense?) To inadequately carry a concealed weapon such that its silhouette is visible on the person wearing it.