Meanings
nounprinting press (plural printing presses)
plural printing presses
- A mechanical device used for printing text or images repeatedly.
Lenin constantly repeated that the 'so-called freedom of the Press' was a bourgeois deceit, like freedom of assembly and the right to form parties, since in a bourgeois society the common people had no printing presses and no rooms in which to assemble.
1978 [1976], Leszek Kołakowski, translated by P[aul] S[teven] Falla, Main Currents of Marxism, volume II: The Golden Age, Oxford: Clarendon Press, translation of Główne nurty marksizmu: rozwój (in Polish), →ISBN, →OCLC, page 487 - metonymicallySynonym of printing house (“an institutional or commercial publisher”).
Synonyms: press, printworks, printing house
Synonyms & antonyms
nounSynonym of printing house (“an institutional or commercial publisher”).
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Translations
Arabic آلَةُ طِبَاعَة, آلَةُ الطِّبَاعَة
- آلَةُ طِبَاعَة (ʔālatu ṭibāʕa)machine for printing
- آلَةُ الطِّبَاعَة (ʔālatu ṭ-ṭibāʕa)machine for printing
Chinese Mandarin 印刷機 /印刷机
- 印刷機 /印刷机 (yìnshuājī)machine for printing
Czech tiskárna, tiskový stroj
- tiskárnamachine for printing
- tiskový strojmachine for printing
Danish trykpresse
- trykpressemachine for printing
Dutch drukpers
- drukpersmachine for printing
Esperanto presmaŝino
- presmaŝinomachine for printing
Estonian trükipress, trükimasin
- trükipressmachine for printing
- trükimasinmachine for printing
Finnish painokone
- painokonemachine for printing
French presse, machine à imprimer
- pressemachine for printing
- machine à imprimermachine for printing
German Druckerpresse
- Druckerpressemachine for printing
Greek πιεστήριο, τυπογραφικό πιεστήριο
- πιεστήριο (piestírio)machine for printing
- τυπογραφικό πιεστήριο (typografikó piestírio)machine for printing
Hindi छापेख़ाना, छापाख़ाना
- छापेख़ाना (chāpexānā)machine for printing
- छापाख़ाना (chāpāxānā)machine for printing
- मुद्रणालय (mudraṇālay)machine for printing
- प्रेस (pres)machine for printing
Hungarian nyomdagép, sajtó
- nyomdagépmachine for printing
- sajtómachine for printing
- nyomógépmachine for printing
Icelandic prentvél
- prentvélmachine for printing
Indonesian mesin cetak
- mesin cetakmachine for printing
Irish clóphreas
- clóphreasmachine for printing
Italian torchio
- torchiomachine for printing
Japanese 印刷機
- 印刷機 (insatsuki)machine for printing
Korean 인쇄기
- 인쇄기 (inswaegi)machine for printing
Latvian drukas spiede, iespiedmašīna
- drukas spiedemachine for printing
- iespiedmašīnamachine for printing
Lithuanian spaudos presas, spausdinimo presas
- spaudos presasmachine for printing
- spausdinimo presasmachine for printing
Malay mesin cetak
- mesin cetakmachine for printing
Norwegian Bokmål trykkpresse
- trykkpressemachine for printing
Polish maszyna drukarska
- maszyna drukarskamachine for printing
Portuguese imprensa
- imprensamachine for printing
Punjabi ਛਾਪਾਖ਼ਾਨਾ
- ਛਾਪਾਖ਼ਾਨਾ (chāpāxānā)machine for printing
Romanian presă de tipărit
- presă de tipăritmachine for printing
Russian печа́тный стано́к, печа́тная маши́на
- печа́тный стано́к (pečátnyj stanók)machine for printing
- печа́тная маши́на (pečátnaja mašína)machine for printing
- типогра́фский стано́к (tipográfskij stanók)machine for printing
- печа́тный пресс (pečátnyj press)machine for printing
Scottish Gaelic clò, beart-chlò
- clòmachine for printing
- beart-chlòmachine for printing
Slovak tlačiareň
- tlačiareňmachine for printing
Spanish imprenta
- imprentamachine for printing
Swedish tryckpress
- tryckpressmachine for printing
Tagalog limbagan, palimbagan
- limbaganmachine for printing
- palimbaganmachine for printing
Thai แท่นพิมพ์
- แท่นพิมพ์machine for printing
Turkish baskı presi, matbaa
- baskı presimachine for printing
- matbaamachine for printing
- baskı makinesimachine for printing
Ukrainian друка́рський верста́т
- друка́рський верста́т (drukársʹkyj verstát)machine for printing
Urdu چھاپا خانَہ, مَطْبَعَہ
- چھاپا خانَہ (chāpā xāna)machine for printing
- مَطْبَعَہ (matba'a)machine for printing
Vietnamese máy in ép
- máy in épmachine for printing
Welsh gwasg argraffu
- gwasg argraffumachine for printing
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