n. letters or images that are produced on paper using ink. It can also mean a mark left on a surface, like a footprint or a finger mark.
n. text or images produced by applying ink to paper or another substrate via a mechanical or digital process. Also refers to an indentation or mark left by pressure on a surface.
The print in this book is too small for me to read.
The photographer sold a limited edition print of the mountain landscape to a local gallery.
While digital archives are convenient, many historians argue that physical print remains the most reliable medium for long-term preservation against data corruption.
From Middle English *printen, prenten, preenten, an apheretic form of emprinten, enprinten (“to impress; imprint”) (see imprint). Compare Dutch prenten (“to imprint”), Middle Low German prenten (“to print; write”), Danish prente (“to print”), Swedish prenta (“to write German letters”). Compare also Late Old French printer, preindre (“to press”), from Latin premere (“to press”).
Uncountable when referring to the medium of printed text; countable when referring to a specific copy of a photograph, artwork, or a physical mark.
I read it in the printsI read it in printWhen referring to the medium of newspapers or books in general, the word is uncountable and does not take a plural 's'.