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Publishing

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

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Publishing

Choke

Printing & publishing; Publishing

Technique of slightly decreasing or reducing the size of an image to create an outline or hairline trap; also called "shrink" and "skinny". See spread, register.

Art board

Printing & publishing; Publishing

The pre-press layout backing for graphics and type; also known as "paste-up" onto pasteboard. See mechanical, artwork; compare storyboard.

Jabberwocky

Printing & publishing; Publishing

Writing or speech with nonsensical words or construction. See balderdash, pap, Greek type.

Mot juste / mots justes

Printing & publishing; Publishing

The precise or appropriate word. See masterpiece, rhetorical forms; compare ghost word.

Polysemy

Printing & publishing; Publishing

Words with several or multiple meanings, as having a diversity of meaning rather than a vague ambiguity of intent; derived from "many + signs". See word, vocabulary, counterword, pleonasm, tautology, ...

Bildungsroman

Printing & publishing; Publishing

A novel dealing with the education and development of its protagonist; see literature.

Soliloquy

Printing & publishing; Publishing

A speech in a drama in which a character, alone or as if alone, discloses innermost thoughts; in prose, this style of "interior monologue" is often called a 'dialogue', to distinguish it from the ...

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