To press upon or into (something); impress; imprint.To mark by pressing something upon; leave an imprint upon; as, to print butter.To make or form by pressure or impression of any kind; fashion or shape out by stamping, indentation, or delineation in general.Specifically To stamp by direct pressure, as from the face of types, plates, or blocks covered with ink or pigments; impress with transferred characters or delineations by the exertion of force, as with a press or some other mechanical agency: as, to print a ream of paper; to print calico; to print pottery.To copy by pressure; take an impression or impressions from or of. as, to print a form of type; to print an engraved plate or block; to print a pattern on paper, or on calico or some other fabric.To make a copy or copies of by impression; produce by or issue from the press; put into print, as for publication: as, to print a book or a newspaper, an essay or a sermon; to print a picture.To cause to be printed; obtain the printing or publication of; publish.To form letters; write.To form by imitation of printed characters; write in the style of print: as, the child has learned to print the letters of the alphabet.To record, describe, or characterize in print as.In photography: To make a positive picture from (a negative) by contact.To produce, as a positive from a negative, by transmitted light, as by the agency of a lens in an enlarging-camera.To use or practise the art of taking impressions in a press.To produce books or any form of printed work by means of a press; specifically, to publish books or writings.To form imitations of printed characters; write in the style of print: as, the child can print, but has not learned to write yet.n. A mark made by impression; any line, character, figure, or indentation made by the pressure of one body or thing on another; hence, figuratively, a mark, vestige, or impression of any kind; a stamp.n. Printed matter for reading; the state of being printed; character or style of printing, or size of the printed letters: as, to put a work into print; clear or blurred print.n. An imprint; an edition.n. A printed publication, more especially a newspaper or other periodical.n. A printed picture or design; an impression from engraved wood or metal taken in ink or other colored medium upon paper or any other suitable material.n. Printed calico; a piece or length of cotton cloth stamped with designs: as, striped, black, colored, or figured prints.n. An impression of something having comparatively slight relief, such as to reproduce in reverse all the parts of the original. Hence, by extensionn. A cast or impression from such a first impression, which reproduces exactly the original.n. A pattern or device produced by stamping, as upon the surface of a piece of plate; hence, apparently by extension, the boss at the bottom of mazers and other vessels of the middle ages or later times, upon which are engraved or otherwise represented the arms of the owner or donor, or some other device.n. Something bearing a figure or design to be impressed by stamping; a figured stamp: as, a butter-print.n. In photography, a positive picture made from a negative.n. In stock: said of a book of which copies can be had of the publisher. Compare out of print.n. In a formal method; with exactness; in a precise and perfect manner; to perfection.Clear and bright.n. In founding: A core-print; a projection on the pattern which leaves a recess in the sand in which to rest the end of the core for a hollow casting.n. The impression left in the sand by a projecting part of the pattern, in which the end of the core is to rest.