publish
English
Etymology
From Middle EnglishCategory:English terms inherited from Middle English#PUBLISHCategory:English terms derived from Middle English#PUBLISH publicen (by analogy with banish, finish), from Old FrenchCategory:English terms derived from Old French#PUBLISH publier, from LatinCategory:English terms derived from Latin#PUBLISH publicare (“to make public, show or tell to the people, make known, declare, also (and earlier) confiscate for public use”), from publicus (“pertaining to the people, public”); see public.
Pronunciation
- enPR: pŭb'lĭsh, IPA(key): /ˈpʌblɪʃ/Category:English 2-syllable words#PUBLISHCategory:English terms with IPA pronunciation#PUBLISH
- (Northern England, Ireland) IPA(key): /ˈpʊblɪʃ/Category:English 2-syllable words#PUBLISHCategory:English terms with IPA pronunciation#PUBLISH
- Rhymes: -ʌblɪʃCategory:Rhymes:English/ʌblɪʃ#PUBLISHCategory:Rhymes:English/ʌblɪʃ/2 syllables#PUBLISH
- Hyphenation: pub‧lish
Verb
publish (third-person singular simple present publishes, present participle publishing, simple past and past participle published)Category:English lemmas#PUBLISHCategory:English verbs#PUBLISHCategory:English entries with incorrect language header#PUBLISHCategory:Pages with entries#PUBLISHCategory:Pages with 1 entry#PUBLISH
- (transitiveCategory:English transitive verbs#PUBLISH) To issue (something, such as printed work) for distribution and/or sale.
- The Times published the investigative piece about the governor both in print and online.Category:English terms with usage examples#PUBLISH
- Most of the sketches Faulkner published in 1925 appeared in the Sunday magazine section of the New Orleans Times-Picayune.Category:English terms with usage examples#PUBLISH
- The State combined public information strategies and published billboards, pamphlets, and newsletter articles under the campaign theme, Give 'Em the Boot.Category:English terms with usage examples#PUBLISH
- 2013 August 16, David Larousserie, “Super-lasers blaze knowledge frontier”, in The Guardian Weekly, volume 189, number 10, page 35:
- In an article published in 2008 [Gérard] Mourou proposed an alternative means of achieving atomic fusion. He now believes that fibre lasers could be used to transmute elements, as a way of disposing of highly radioactive waste from nuclear power stations.Category:English terms with quotations#PUBLISH
- (transitiveCategory:English transitive verbs#PUBLISH) To announce to the public.
- The Secretary of Health and Human Services published a press release on May 22, 2013.Category:English terms with usage examples#PUBLISH
- The Bolshevik government published an announcement of the tsar's death.Category:English terms with usage examples#PUBLISH
- No newspaper published the victim's name.Category:English terms with usage examples#PUBLISH
- (transitiveCategory:English transitive verbs#PUBLISH) To issue the work of (an author).
- Grove Press published many avant-garde authors.Category:English terms with usage examples#PUBLISH
- (InternetCategory:en:Internet#PUBLISH, transitiveCategory:English transitive verbs#PUBLISH) To disseminate (a message) publicly via a newsgroup, forum, blog, etc.
- (intransitiveCategory:English intransitive verbs#PUBLISH) To issue a medium (e.g. publication).
- Major city papers still publish daily.Category:English terms with usage examples#PUBLISH
- (intransitiveCategory:English intransitive verbs#PUBLISH) To have one's work accepted for a publication.
- She needs to publish in order to get tenure.Category:English terms with usage examples#PUBLISH
- (intransitiveCategory:English intransitive verbs#PUBLISH, of content) To be made available in a printed publication or other medium.
- The article first published online, then in print the next day.Category:English terms with usage examples#PUBLISH
- (programmingCategory:en:Programming#PUBLISH) To make (information such as an event) available to components that wish to be notified (subscribers).
- (ChristianityCategory:en:Christianity#PUBLISH) To preach (as a Jehovah's Witness).
Conjugation
Synonyms
- (to announce to the public): disclose, make known; See also Thesaurus:announce
- (to disseminate publicly via a newsgroup, forum, blog, etc.): post
Antonyms
- (To make (information such as an event) available to components that wish to be notified) private
Derived terms
Related terms
Translations
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Further reading
- “publish”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
- William Dwight Whitney, Benjamin E[li] Smith, editors (1911), “publish”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., →OCLC.
- “publish”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.
