printing

• POS: Noun
• HYPHEN: print=ing

CIDE DICTIONARY

printing, n. 

 The act, art, or practice of impressing letters, characters, or figures on paper, cloth, or other material; the business of a printer, including typesetting and presswork, with their adjuncts; typography; also, the act of producing photographic prints.  [1913 Webster]

Block printing. See under Block. -- Printing frame (Photog.), a shallow box, usually having a glass front, in which prints are made by exposure to light. -- Printing house, a printing office. -- Printing ink, ink used in printing books, newspapers, etc. It is composed of lampblack or ivory black mingled with linseed or nut oil, made thick by boiling and burning. Other ingredients are employed for the finer qualities. Ure. -- Printing office, a place where books, pamphlets, or newspapers, etc., are printed. -- Printing paper, paper used in the printing of books, pamphlets, newspapers, and the like, as distinguished from writing paper, wrapping paper, etc. -- Printing press, a press for printing, books, newspaper, handbills, etc. -- Printing wheel, a wheel with letters or figures on its periphery, used in machines for paging or numbering, or in ticket-printing machines, typewriters, etc.; a type wheel.

OXFORD DICTIONARY

printing, n.
1 the production of printed books etc.
2 a single impression of a book.
3 printed letters or writing imitating them.

Idiom

printing-press a machine for printing from types or plates etc.

THESAURUS

printing

Italian hand, Spencerian writing, airing, alphabet, art, back number, bandying, block letter, blueprint, bold hand, book, book hand, broadcast, broadcasting, bruiting, bruiting about, chancery hand, charactering, characterization, chart, choreography, circulation, collection, conventional representation, copperplate hand, copy, cursive, cursive hand, dance notation, delineation, demonstration, depiction, depictment, diagram, diffusion, display, dissemination, drama, drawing, edition, evulgation, exemplification, figuration, graphic artist, graphic arts, graphics, hieroglyphic, iconography, ideogram, illustration, imagery, imaging, impression, issuance, issue, law hand, letter, lettering, library, library edition, limning, logogram, logograph, longhand, majuscule script, map, minuscule script, musical notation, notation, number, painting, periodical, photography, pictogram, picturization, plan, portraiture, portrayal, prefigurement, presentment, printmaking, projection, promulgation, propagation, publication, publishing, realization, reissue, relief-carving, rendering, rendition, representation, reprinting, round hand, schema, school edition, score, script, series, set, spread, spreading, spreading abroad, syllabary, symbol, tablature, telecasting, text hand, trade book, trade edition, uncial, ventilation, volume, writing

ROGET THESAURUS

printing

Printing

N printing, block printing, type-printing, plate printing, (engraving), the press, composition, print, letterpress, text, context, note, page, column, typography, stereotype, electrotype, aprotype, type, black letter, font, fount, pi, pie, capitals, brevier, bourgeois, pica boldface, capitals, caps, catchword, composing-frame, composing room, composing rule, composing stand, composing stick, italics, justification, linotype, live matter, logotype, lower case, upper case, make-up, matrix, matter, monotype, 4-1/2 point, 5 point, 5-1/2 point, 6 point, 7 point, 8 point, press room, press work, reglet, roman, running head, running title, scale, serif, shank, sheet work, shoulder, signature, slug, underlay, folio, copy, impression, pull, proof, revise, author's proof, galley proof, press proof, press revise, printer, compositor, reader, printer's devil copyholder, printed, in type, typographical, solid in galleys.

Engraving

N engraving, chalcography, line engraving, mezzotint engraving, stipple engraving, chalk engraving, dry point, bur, etching, aquatinta, chiseling, plate engraving, copperplate engraving, steel engraving, wood engraving, xylography, lignography, glyptography, cerography, lithography, chromolithography, photolithography, zincography, glyphography, xylograph, lignograph, glyptograph, cerograph, lithograph, chromolithograph, photolithograph, zincograph, glyphograph, holograph, impression, print, engraving, plate, steelplate, copperplate, etching, mezzotint, aquatint, lithotint, cut, woodcut, stereotype, graphotype, autotype, heliotype, graver, burin, etching point, style, plate, stone, wood block, negative, die, punch, stamp, printing, plate printing, copperplate printing, anastatic printing, color printing, lithographic printing, type printing, three-color process, illustration, illumination, half tone, photogravure, vignette, initial letter, cul de lampe, tailpiece, lapidary, lapidarian, insculptured, engraved, lapidary, sculpsit, imprimit.