Publish
['pʌblɪʃ]
Definition
(verb.) prepare and issue for public distribution or sale; 'publish a magazine or newspaper'.
(verb.) have (one's written work) issued for publication; 'How many books did Georges Simenon write?'; 'She published 25 books during her long career'.
Edited by Elise--From WordNet
Definition
(v. t.) To make public; to make known to mankind, or to people in general; to divulge, as a private transaction; to promulgate or proclaim, as a law or an edict.
(v. t.) To make known by posting, or by reading in a church; as, to publish banns of marriage.
(v. t.) To send forth, as a book, newspaper, musical piece, or other printed work, either for sale or for general distribution; to print, and issue from the press.
(v. t.) To utter, or put into circulation; as, to publish counterfeit paper.
Editor: Tracy
Synonyms and Synonymous
v. a. [1]. Promulgate, proclaim, blaze, blazon, announce, declare, disclose, divulge, reveal, advertise, impart, communicate, broach, make known, spread abroad, blaze abroad.[2]. Issue (as a book), emit, send forth, bring out.
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Synonyms and Antonyms
[See ANNOUNCE]
Typist: Mason
Definition
v.t. to make public: to divulge: to announce: to proclaim: to send forth to the public: to print and offer for sale: to put into circulation.—adj. Pub′lishable.—ns. Pub′lisher one who makes public: one who publishes books; Pub′lishment publication esp. of banns.
Edited by Adela
Unserious Contents or Definition
n. In literary affairs to become the fundamental element in a cone of critics.
Checked by Gerald
Examples
- However that poor little creature is so afraid of his wife, that, if he will only behave decently, I do not mean to publish him. Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.
- In the few hours that I can possibly allow to elapse before I publish the truth, how is he to be found by us, and only by us? Charles Dickens. Hard Times.
- But I should not have gone to publish it in the market-place. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- I suppose he meant Dorothea to publish his researches, eh? George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- It is then the interest of the enemies of this potentate to secure and publish this letter, so as to make a breach between his country and ours? Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
- Later, James was forbidden to publish the paper without submitting to the supervision of the Secretary of the Province. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
- I once asked Luttrell, who was a particular acquaintance of William Lamb, why that gentleman permitted his wife to publish such a work. Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.
- Many treatises in different languages have been published on pigeons, and some of them are very important, as being of considerable antiquity. Charles Darwin. On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection.
- The newspapers had previously published articles showing the unusual capacity and performance of the battery, and public interest had thus been greatly awakened. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- Published November, 1920. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- It is published and read all over the world. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- My work will probably never be finished; and it will certainly never be published. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
- It has been said that electrical science began with the labours of Dr. Gilbert, published in 1600. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
- Among these is Hartman Schapper's book published at Frankfort, in 1548. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
- This was a combination of state library and state publishing upon a scale hitherto unheard of. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- But it so happened that my intention of writing and publishing this comment was never fulfilled. Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
- Nearly fifty thousand persons assembled in St. Peter's to hear the publishing of the dogma of the Immaculate Conception. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- His design in publishing this work. Jonathan Swift. Gulliver's Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World.
- In the history of the arts, now publishing by the French Academy of Sciences, several of them are actually explained in this manner. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
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