American English pronunciation

How to pronounce printings

IPA transcription: [p'ɹɪntɪŋz]

Pronunciation variants: [p'ɹɪntɪŋz][p'ɹɪnɪŋz]

Hear “printings” pronounced

[p'ɹɪntɪŋz]

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[p'ɹɪntɪŋz]

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[p'ɹɪntɪŋz]

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Noun

  • text handwritten in the style of printed matter

  • the business of producing printed material for sale or distribution

  • reproduction by applying ink to paper as for publication

  • all the copies of a work printed at one time

    “they ran off an initial printing of 2000 copies”

Verb

  • put into print

    “The newspaper published the news of the royal couple's divorce”

    “These news should not be printed”

  • write as if with print; not cursive

  • make into a print

    “print the negative”

  • reproduce by printing

Usage examples

  • Additional printings were common in Britain throughout the eighteenth century.
  • Original printings of "The North American Indian" began to fetch high prices at auction.
  • Later printings of "His Last Bow" correct "Wistaria" to "Wisteria".
  • Using photographic paper, instead of the usual "off set", printings in regular albums.
  • During this time, there were approximately fifty-five printings of Lithuanian books in Cyrillic.