Topic: VISUAL
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a) [intransitive and transitive]TCN to produce words, numbers, or pictures on paper, using a machine which puts ink onto the surface : 
I need to make a few changes before I print the document.The company's name was printed in bold letters across the top of the page. a printed letter The printer's switched on but it won't print. As a newspaper publisher he understood the power of the printed word (=words that are printed on paper).
I need to make a few changes before I print the document.The company's name was printed in bold letters across the top of the page.a printed letterThe printer's switched on but it won't print.As a newspaper publisher he understood the power of the printed word (=words that are printed on paper).b) [intransitive]TD when a computer document prints, a printed copy of it is produced : Press return, then the document should print.
Press return, then the document should print.2 to produce many printed copies of a book, newspaper etc : Over five million copies of the paper are printed every day. When the book was first written no publisher would print it.
books/newspapers
[transitive]TCNOver five million copies of the paper are printed every day.When the book was first written no publisher would print it.3 to print a report of something or a letter, speech etc in a newspaper or magazine [= publish]: The Express was the first paper to print the story. The Telegraph has printed numerous articles on this subject over the last three years. I wrote to the newspaper but my letter wasn't printed.
in a newspaper
[transitive]TCNThe Express was the first paper to print the story.The Telegraph has printed numerous articles on this subject over the last three years.I wrote to the newspaper but my letter wasn't printed.4 to produce a photograph from a photographic film : It usually takes a couple of hours for the pictures to be developed and printed.
photograph
[transitive]TCPIt usually takes a couple of hours for the pictures to be developed and printed.5 to decorate cloth with a pattern that is put all over its surface by a machine : a skirt printed with brightly coloured flowers a printed silk shirt
cloth
[transitive]TIMa skirt printed with brightly coloured flowersa printed silk shirt6 to write words by hand without joining the letters : Please print your name clearly in the top right hand corner of the page.
write
[intransitive and transitive]Please print your name clearly in the top right hand corner of the page.7 to make a mark on a surface or in a soft substance by pressing something on to it
make a mark
[transitive]➔ a licence to print money
at licence (6)print something ↔ off/out
phrasal verbTDTD to produce a printed copy of a computer document : Could you print a copy off for me? I'll print the file out and then we can look at it.
Could you print a copy off for me?I'll print the file out and then we can look at it.