part of speech
verb (print, prints, printed, printing); noun (print, prints)
meaning for a pupil
1) To print is to put words or pictures onto paper with a machine. tree →
2) To print by hand is to write letters one by one, not joined up. tree →
3) Print is writing made by a machine: «small print». tree →
4) A print is a mark left by pressing, like a footprint or fingerprint. tree →
5) A print is a copy of a picture or photo. tree →
sense in the lessons
In school maths: pages printed at a rate (pages per minute); copies printed (copies × pages). In everyday life: printing homework, photos, tickets; printing in neat letters. In science and stories: fingerprints, footprints in the mud help detectives. Phrases: «print out», «in print», «the small print» (rules written in tiny letters), «fingerprint», «footprint».
examples
- The printer prints 20 pages a minute. tree →
- She printed 3 copies of a 12-page book. tree →
- How many sheets are printed? tree →
- He prints 50 cards. tree →
- Please print your name in capital letters. tree →
- The detective found a fingerprint on the glass. tree →
- We saw bear prints in the snow. tree →
- Print out the map before the trip. tree →
- I have never seen it in print. tree →
note
«Print out» (verb), «printout» (noun). Maths: a rate or a product: copies × pages. Trap: two-sided printing uses half the sheets.
In the corpora
- Van Gogh painted his own versions of prints by the Japanese artist Hiroshige to learn from them, and that influence changed his style.
- The Great Wave off Kanagawa by Hokusai is a woodblock print, so many copies were made from the carved blocks.
- In printed copies of the book the tale winds down the page in the shape of a tail, getting smaller.
- For his money Toad gets «a cotton print gown, an apron, a shawl, and a rusty black bonnet».
- Audiobooks build vocabulary, understanding and a love of stories, but they do not practise reading printed words, so children use both.
Trees and pragmatics
Every meaning and example of «print» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.