Definitions for Printer

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Printer print·er

Spelling: [prin-ter]

IPA: /ˈprɪn tər/

Printer is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 9 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 11 points.

You can make 134 anagrams from letters in Printer (einprrt).

Definitions for Printer

noun

1. a person or thing that prints, especially a person whose occupation is printing.
2. Computers. an output device that produces a paper copy of alphanumeric or graphic data.
3. an instrument that automatically records telegraphic messages by means of a printing mechanism activated by incoming signals.
4. Movies. a photographic machine through which either the negative or positive of a master print can be run, together with unexposed film, to make a duplicate.
5. the state of being printed.
6. printed lettering, especially with reference to character, style, or size:
7. printed material.
8. a printed publication, as a newspaper or magazine.
9. newsprint.
10. a picture, design, or the like, printed from an engraved or otherwise prepared block, plate, etc.
11. an indentation, mark, etc., made by the pressure of one body or thing on another.
12. something with which an impression is made; a stamp or die.
13. a fingerprint.
14. Textiles. a design or pattern on cloth made by dyeing, weaving, or printing with engraved rollers, blocks of wood, stencils, etc. a cloth so treated. an article of apparel made of this cloth.
15. something that has been subjected to impression, as a pat of butter.
16. Photography. a picture, especially a positive made from a negative.
17. any reproduced image, as a blueprint.
18. Movies, Television. a positive copy of a completed film or filmed program ready for showing; release print.

Idioms

1. in print, in printed form; published. (of a book or the like) still available for purchase from the publisher.
2. out of print, (of a book or the like) no longer available for purchase from the publisher.

adjective

1. of, for, or comprising newspapers and magazines:

Verb phrases

1. print in, Photography. burn1 (def 45). Also, burn in.
2. print out, Computers. to make a printout of.

verb (used with object)

1. to produce (a text, picture, etc.) by applying inked types, plates, blocks, or the like, to paper or other material either by direct pressure or indirectly by offsetting an image onto an intermediate roller.
2. to reproduce (a design or pattern) by engraving on a plate or block.
3. to form a design or pattern upon, as by stamping with an engraved plate or block:
4. to cause (a manuscript, text, etc.) to be published in print.
5. to write in letters like those commonly used in print:
6. Computers. to produce (data) in legible alphanumeric or graphic form.
7. to indent or mark by pressing something into or upon (something).
8. to produce or fix (an indentation, mark, etc.), as by pressure.
9. to impress on the mind, memory, etc.
10. to fingerprint.
11. to apply (a thing) with pressure so as to leave an indentation, mark, etc.:
12. Photography. to produce a positive picture from (a negative) by the transmission of light.

verb (used without object)

1. to take impressions from type, an engraved plate, etc., as in a press.
2. to produce by means of a reproduction process:
3. to make an image by means of ink, chemical action, etc., as type, engraved plates, etc.:
4. to write in characters such as are used in print:
5. to follow the vocation of a printer.

Origin of Printer

First recorded in 1495-1505; print + -er¹

Examples for Printer

Pills purporting to be Viagra filled with printer ink and rat poison.

The boxes are not arranged alphabetically, and a printer learns the case as one learns the typewriter keyboard.

From the printer's I went on to the Piazza Navona and found a wilderness of woe.

“Fair and softly,” said the printer with something of a smile.

"We have traced the printer who published them," said Angelelli.

Franklin was a printer, scientist, revolutionary, ambassador and all around know-it-all.

printer's errors have been corrected, all other inconsistencies are as in the original.

Another returned a printer box stuffed with a candy-filled piñata.

A suit came on the other day in which a printer named Kelvy was a witness.

The beauty of the 3-D printer was that users would continually figure out new ways to use it.