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# 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 →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/printing/#m1)

2) Printing is also the job or business of making books and newspapers. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/printing/#m2)

3) Printing can mean writing with separate letters that are not joined, not in joined-up writing. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/printing/#m3)

4) In art, printing is pressing a shape with paint onto paper, like potato printing. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/printing/#m4)

### 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 →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/printing/#x1)
- Printing one book costs 3 dollars. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/printing/#x2)
- How long is printing 90 pages? [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/printing/#x3)
- They finished printing 200 flyers. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/printing/#x4)
- The teacher is printing our reading sheets. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/printing/#x5)
- Before the printing press, books were copied by hand. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/printing/#x6)
- In art we did leaf printing with green paint. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/printing/#x7)
- Please print your name in capital letters. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/printing/#x8)
- In this way these tales are older than reading and writing, far older than printing. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/printing/#x9)

### 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.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/history/25-printing-the-renaissance-and-the-reformation/5/)
- [In 1517 Martin Luther, a German monk, criticised the Church for selling forgiveness, and printing spread his ideas quickly.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/history/25-printing-the-renaissance-and-the-reformation/10/)
- [William Caxton brought the printing press to England in 1476; printers had to choose spellings, and many of their choices stuck.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/language/22-where-english-came-from/15/)
- [Johannes Gutenberg began printing books with movable metal letters around 1450.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/48-time-and-history/14/)
- [The printing press made books cheaper and helped knowledge spread.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/59-inventions-computers-internet/14/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «printing» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/printing/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.