Merriam-Webster Collegiate Dictionary - print

 I. noun  Etymology: Middle English prente, from Anglo-French, from preint, prient, past participle of priendre to press, from Latin premere — more at press  Date: 14th century  1.  a. a mark made by pressure ; impression  b. something impressed with a ~ or formed in a mold  c. finger~  2.  a. ~ed state or form  b. the ~ing industry  3.  a. ~ed matter  b. plural ~ed publications  4. ~ed letters ; type  5.  a.  (1) a copy made by ~ing  (2) a reproduction of an original work of art (as a painting) made by a photomechanical process  (3) an original work of art (as a woodcut, etching, or lithograph) intended for graphic reproduction and produced by or under the supervision of the artist who designed it  b. cloth with a pattern or figured design applied by ~ing; also an article of such cloth  c. a photographic or motion-picture copy; especially one made from a negative  II. verb  Date: 14th century  transitive verb  1.  a. to impress something in or on  b. to stamp (as a mark) in or on something  2.  a. to make a copy of by impressing paper against an inked ~ing surface  b.  (1) to impress (as wallpaper) with a design or pattern  (2) to impress (a pattern or design) on something  c. to publish in ~  d. ~ out; also to display on a surface (as a computer screen) for viewing  3. to write in letters shaped like those of ordinary roman text type  4. to make (a positive picture) on a sensitized photographic surface from a negative or a positive  intransitive verb  1.  a. to work as a ~er  b. to produce ~ed matter  2. to produce something in ~ed form  3. to write or hand-letter in imitation of unjoined ~ed characters  III. adjective  Date: 1953 of, relating to, or writing for ~ed publications ~ journalists