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Noun printing has 4 senses

printing - text handwritten in the style of printed matter
--₁ is a kind of writing
printing - the business of printing
--₂ is a kind of commercial enterprise, business enterprise, business
--₂ has particulars: gravure; issue, publication
printing, printing process - reproduction by applying ink to paper as for publication
--₃ is a kind of writing
--₃ has particulars:
typography, composition; relief printing, letterpress; intaglio printing, intaglio, gravure; process printing; planographic printing, planography; offset, offset printing; carbon process

Derived forms: verb print₁, verb print₄
impression, printing - all the copies of a work printed at one time; "they ran off an initial printing of 2000 copies"
--₄ is a kind of publication
--₄ has particulars: edition; proof, test copy, trial impression; mackle

Verb print has 4 senses

print, publish - put into print; "The newspaper published the news of the royal couple's divorce"; "These news should not be printed"
--₁ is one way to produce, make, create

Derived forms: noun print₁, noun printer₁, noun printer₂, noun printer₃, noun printing₃
Sample sentence:
They won't print the story
print - write as if with print; not cursive
--₂ is one way to write
Sample sentences:
Somebody ----s
Somebody ----s something
print - make into a print; "print the negative"
--₃ is one way to reproduce

Derived form: noun print₆
Sample sentence:
Somebody ----s something
print, impress - reproduce by printing
--₄ is one way to write

Derived forms: noun print₁, noun printer₁, noun printer₂, noun printer₃, noun printing₃
Sample sentence:
Somebody ----s something