printing

«printing» in Mova's school dictionary: putting words or pictures on paper with a machine called… — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 5 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

part of speech

verb form of print (print, prints, printed, printing); noun (printing)

meaning for a pupil

1) Printing means putting words or pictures on paper with a machine called a printer. tree →

2) Printing is also the job or business of making books and newspapers. tree →

3) Printing can mean writing with separate letters that are not joined, not in joined-up writing. tree →

4) In art, printing is pressing a shape with paint onto paper, like potato printing. tree →

sense in the lessons

In maths: pages or copies printed; printing speed as pages per minute: pages = speed × time, time = pages ÷ speed. In history: the printing press made books cheap and spread reading. In art lessons: printing with sponges, leaves or potatoes. In handwriting: print your name in capital letters. Phrases: printing press, printing out, print-out, printing ink.

examples

• The printer is printing 15 pages a minute. tree →
• Printing one book costs 3 dollars. tree →
• How long is printing 90 pages? tree →
• They finished printing 200 flyers. tree →
• The teacher is printing our reading sheets. tree →
• Before the printing press, books were copied by hand. tree →
• In art we did leaf printing with green paint. tree →
• Please print your name in capital letters. tree →
• In this way these tales are older than reading and writing, far older than printing. tree →

note

«Print out» means to print from a computer. A «printer» is the machine or the person who prints. Usually a rate: pages = speed × time; time = pages ÷ speed. Trap: check that the units of time match. Trap: printing on both sides uses half as many sheets as pages.

In the corpora

• Around 1450 Johannes Gutenberg in Germany built a printing press with movable metal letters that could be reused.
• In 1517 Martin Luther, a German monk, criticised the Church for selling forgiveness, and printing spread his ideas quickly.
• William Caxton brought the printing press to England in 1476; printers had to choose spellings, and many of their choices stuck.
• Johannes Gutenberg began printing books with movable metal letters around 1450.
• The printing press made books cheaper and helped knowledge spread.

Trees and pragmatics

Every meaning and example of «printing» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.