Publishing

Publishing

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

Industry: Printing & publishing

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Sleepy

Printing & publishing; Publishing

Can connote muted and subdued, as quietly restful, or dull and uninspiring, as blandly soporific; but a publication should not be prosaic, vapid, insipid, or unimaginative.

Engrave / engraving

Printing & publishing; Publishing

Printing method using a die, or a plate with an image carved into its surface. Compare emboss, intaglio, thermography; see etch, mezzotint, micrographia, xylography, zincography, vignette.

The final layout of proofs, arranged as reader spreads on an office wall, so a complete issue can be examined as the staff "walks the wall" for any last minute adjustments. This form of presentation ...

Blue-pencil

Printing & publishing; Publishing

To alter, edit, or delete with (or as if with) a blue coloured pencil. See red-pencil, proofread.

Snipe

Printing & publishing; Publishing

To attack a person or a person's work with petulant or snide criticism, especially anonymously or from a safe distance; derived from "position of concealment", as sniper. See critic.

Tanka

Printing & publishing; Publishing

A Japanese poem consisting of 31 syllables in five lines, with five syllables in the first and third lines, and seven in the others; derived from "short + song". See haiku, hokku.

Gravure

Printing & publishing; Publishing

A rotary printing process where the image is etched into the metal plate attached to a cylinder. The cylinder is then rotated through a trough of printing ink after which the etched surface is wiped ...