Publishing

Publishing

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

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Paper

Printing & publishing; Publishing

An absorbent material made from plant pulp or fibrous substances, usually in thin sheets or leaves, dyed or bleached to a desired hue, pressed or polished into a desired texture, and variously sized ...

Language

Printing & publishing; Publishing

Communication using a formalised system of arbitrary vocal sounds, orthographic symbols and signs, or nonverbal gestures in conventional ways with conventional meanings, such as spoken language, sign ...

Blanket

Printing & publishing; Publishing

Rubber-coated pad, mounted on a cylinder of an offset press, that receives the inked image from the plate, and transfers it to the surface to be printed by the impression cylinder. See doubling.

Hypertext markup language (HTML)

Printing & publishing; Publishing

The language format used to develop and write document pages on the World Wide Web. Webpages are built with HTML codes or tags (qv) embedded into the text. HTML defines the webpage layout, ...

Credit line

Printing & publishing; Publishing

A line of text acknowledging the source or origin of published or exhibited material. See byline, caption, underline, cover credit, brand, plagiarism.

Prequel

Printing & publishing; Publishing

A sequel to a film, play, or piece of fiction that prefigures or foreshadows the original. See series; compare sequel.

Initialism

Printing & publishing; Publishing

An abbreviation or acrostic formed from the initial letters of the words in a name or phrase, which are always separately spelled-out in pronunciation (eg: MPH, RPM, ATM, HIV, STD, TLC, PRN, QID, ...