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printed, ppl. a.|ˈprɪntɪd|
[f. print v. + -ed1.]
1. a. Impressed, stamped, marked, † moulded.
c1483Caxton Dialogues 12 Of mylke soden with the flour Men make printed cakes. 1616Surfl. & Markh. Country Farme 683 Their dung is printed, grosse, long, and knottie. 1742Collins Oriental Ecl. ii. 52 Oft in the dust I view his printed feet.
b. Said of a ruff: In print (print n. 15 c); ? with the pleats properly pressed or goffered; cf. print a. 1 b.
1611B. Jonson in Coryat's Crudities a iij b, He [Coryat] will shortly be reputed a Knowing proper, and well traueld scholer, as by his starchd beard, and printed ruffe may be as properly insinuated. 1614― Barth. Fair iii. ii, Mooncalf. [Of a party of Puritans.] A body may read that i' their small printed ruffes [i.e. ruffs in small or Geneva print].
2. a. Produced or prepared by typography; bearing printed characters; expressed or published in print.
1509Hawes Past. Pleas. xiv. (Percy Soc.) 53 Whose godly name In printed bokes doth remayne in fame. 1553Eden Treat. Newe Ind. (Arb.) 5 A shiete of printed paper. 1665Orders of Ld. Mayor Lond. in De Foe Plague (Rtldg.) 62 With these usual printed Words,..‘Lord have Mercy upon us’. 1709Lady M. W. Montagu Let. to Miss A. Wortley 21 Aug., I don't see any violent necessity of printed rules. 1841D'Israeli Amen. Lit. (1867) 215 The first printed book in the English language was not printed in England.
b. Used of a writer.
1893W. G. Collingwood Life & Work J. Ruskin I. v. 56 He was quite an artist; and a printed poet!
c. printed matter, printed paper, leaflets, papers, cards, circulars, etc., that are printed, not written. So printed-matter mail, a cheaper rate of postage than that for ordinary mail.
1876in Jrnl. R. Soc. Arts (1976) May 343/1, I am directed by the Council of this Society respectfully to draw your Lordship's attention to the anomaly which exists with reference to the conveyance of printed matter by the post, owing to the distinction which the Post-office makes between the book post and the newspaper post. 1897Post Office Guide July 375 The Articles which are entitled to be sent at the rate applicable to Printed Papers are mostly impressions or copies obtained upon paper, parchment, or cardboard, by means of printing, lithography, engraving, photography, or any other mechanical process easy to recognize... Besides these articles, there are some others which are admitted, though not really printed matter, as, for instance, manuscripts intended for the press (when sent with the proofs of the same), papers impressed for the use of the blind, and cardboard drawing models stamped in relief. 1918Ibid. July 9 The expression ‘Printed Paper’ means a packet not exceeding 2 oz. in weight which consists of or contains one or more of the following articles or documents, that is to say:—..Books..Sketches..Maps..[etc.]. 1929H. Crane Let. 6 Sept. (1965) 345 My old landlady..had thought they were ‘printed matter’ and had failed to forward them. 1929D. H. Lawrence Let. 9 July (1962) II. 1163, I will address them..by registered printed-matter mail. 1957C. Brooke-Rose Languages of Love 32 Two newspapers and three letters for her lay on the hall table. One was only printed matter, and one an unsealed invitation. 1959Spectator 14 Aug. 181/1 Printed matter is not much read by the non-Communists or the uncommitted. 1967Economist 15 July 238/3 With the inevitable rise in the price of newspapers..and the probable ending of resale price maintenance on confectionery and even tobacco, newsagents will be keener than before to sell printed matter.
3. Coloured or figured by a process of printing, as cotton goods, carpets, pottery, etc.
1588[see print v. 13]. 1633Wotton Let. to Sir E. Bacon 3 June in Reliq. (1672) 464, I send you herewith two printed Caps... The Caps is a pretty fresh invention of a very easie rate;..which may come to some pretty perfection in the ornament of Curtains and Valances of Beds, or in some fine historified Table-cloth for a Banquet. 1758Franklin Lett. Wks. 1887 III. 7 Seven yards of printed cloth. 1791Hamilton Berthollet's Dyeing I. Introd. 2 A mode..we use for colouring printed linens. 1839Ure Dict. Arts 1028 The blue printed ware of England has been hitherto a hopeless object of emulation in France. 1888Black In Far Lochaber viii, I've bought each o' them a printed cotton gown. 1900Daily News 24 Feb. 6/5 Printed in the medley of colours and the designs so long associated with cashmere shawls.
4. Reproduced by nature-printing, photographic printing, etc. Also printed-out (see print v. 15 c).
1856T. Moore (title) Nature-Printed British Ferns. 1859[see nature-printed]. 1907Westm. Gaz. 9 Nov. 18/2 The development of a partially printed-out image. 1934Jrnl. Optical Soc. Amer. XXIV. 316/1 Weigert found that if shorter exposures than were required to produce a printed-out image were given..the image rendered visible by suitable development was dichroic. 1976K. I. & R. E. Jacobson Imaging Syst. ii. 55 The colour of the printed out silver is usually reddish purple.
5. printed circuit, an electric circuit in the form of a flat sheet of insulating material bearing thin conducting strips and components, usu. mass-produced by a method that involves printing the circuit design on the sheet using a stencil or photograph of it; so printed circuitry, printed wiring; also applied to individual components made by such processes.
1946Business Week 23 Feb. 19/2 On the back of the plate are solder spots that connect through holes in the plate with the ‘printed’ circuit. 1946Sci. News Let. 2 Mar. 133 ‘Printed wire’, the new development that reduces wiring radio circuits to a two-dimensional lithographic process. 1946Wireless World Oct. 349/1 (heading) Printed ‘wiring’. 1952Electronic Engin. XXIV. 129/1 A major disadvantage of printed circuits has been the difficulty of incorporating satisfactory resistors. 1956Mod. Plastics XXXIII. 223/2 Use of printed circuitry in 1955..increased in electronic computers, industrial control units, servo-mechanisms, and similar equipment. 1958Daily Mail 8 Sept. 8/2 Research men working with printed circuits have evolved a way of reducing the thickness of the copper foil which carries the current from five-thousandths of an inch..to half a thousandth of an inch. 1966McGraw-Hill Encycl. Sci. & Technol. X. 596/2 Printed capacitors are fabricated as part of the conductor circuit pattern when a high dielectric constant ceramic..is used as the circuit base material. Conductive patterns are screened on opposite sides of the circuit base to form the capacitor. 1970J. Earl Tuners & Amplifiers vi. 141 The vast majority of tuner-amplifiers are now transistored, the designs being based on printed circuit boards..and sometimes integrated circuits. 1971Engineering Apr. 30/1 The introduction of solid-state electronics and printed circuitry to vending machinery has minimized the number of separate electrical relays required. 1977Gramophone Nov. 960/3 Normally these would flex the board during transit, with the possibility of cracking the printed wiring.
6. Produced by print-through (sense 1).
1950–1B.B.C. Quarterly V. 245/1 In an investigation of accidental printing, one of the main difficulties is in measuring printed signals which are more than 50 db lower in level than the recorded signal, but are closely spaced about it on the tape. 1962A. Nisbett Technique Sound Studio iv. 84 (caption) Wavelength of original and printed signal. |