Publishing

Publishing

Publishing is the process of producing literature, music or information and making it available to the general public.

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surprint

Printing & publishing; Publishing

To print an image over another image, as text over a graphic, as line drawing over continuous tone; to impose an overlay onto a base depiction in the same illustration area by registered plate ...

A machine for writing in monospaced characters by manually pressing the letters of a keyboard. Invented in 1808, these "strike-on" devices originally functioned by keystrokes at the back of the sheet ...

envoy

Printing & publishing; Publishing

A short concluding stanza to a poem, especially a ballade, or a postscript to a prose work, often containing a summary, acknowledgement, or dedication; derived "to send". See back matter.

bathos

Printing & publishing; Publishing

An anticlimax, as insincere sentimentality, or a ludicrous descent from the exalted or lofty to the commonplace. Also, triteness or triviality in style; derived "depth". Compare pathos; see ...

case

Printing & publishing; Publishing

Covers and spine that, as a unit, enclose the pages of a casebound book.

set in roman type (ROM)

Printing & publishing; Publishing

See proofreader's marks. Also, the abbreviation for Read Only Memory, as distinguished from RAM in computer data retrieval; compare flash memory, bento storage.

medium / media

Printing & publishing; Publishing

The material or technique with which an artist works, and by which creative expression is represented. Also, an intervening agency, means, or instrument by which something is conveyed or accomplished ...