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Definition: Publishing |
PublishingNoun1. The business of publishing. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "publishing" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1258. (references) |
| Domain | Definition |
Health | "The business or profession of the commercial production and issuance of literature" (Webster's 3d). It includes the publisher, publication processes, editing and editors. Production may be by conventional printing methods or by electronic publishing. (references) |
Publishing & Graphic Arts | The act of making information available or offering them to the public or to a representative section of the public. Source: European Union. (references) |
| The industry dealing with the preparation and issuing(of a book, newspaper, engraving, etc. )for public sale. Source: European Union. (references) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
Publishing is the activity of distributing books, magazines, newspapers and other printed material, or information, to the public. For example "internet publishing" is making information available via the Internet.
See also:
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Publishing."
Synonym: PublishingSynonym: publication (n). (additional references) |
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Screenplays | Bridget works in a publishing house and she used to play around naked in my paddling pool. (Bridget Jones's Diary; writing credit: Helen Fielding) Well, actually, it's a little more than just a hobby, Reader's Digest is considering publishing two of my jokes. (Good Morning, Vietnam; writing credit: Mitch Markowitz) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | ||
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![]() | Engraving, dated 22 February 1864, published Bufford's Print Publishing House, 313 Washington St., Boston, Massachusetts. Credit: NAVY. | ![]() | People posed on porch of and in the Planet newspaper publishing house, Richmond, Virginia. Credit: Library of Congress. |
![]() | Reichspostdampfer des Norddeutschen Lloyd "König Albert"--Luxuszimmer / Detroit Publishing Co. Credit: Library of Congress. | ![]() | Norddeutscher Lloyd--Reichspostdampfer "Kaiserin Maria Theresia"--Damensalon / Detroit Publishing Co. Credit: Library of Congress. |
![]() | Detroit Publishing Co., 15 West Thirty-eighth Street, front room, New York City. Credit: Library of Congress. | ![]() | Curtis Publishing Co., Philadelphia, Pa. Credit: Library of Congress. |
![]() | Mr. Raemick's office, Whitney Warner Publishing Co., Detroit, Mich. Credit: Library of Congress. | ![]() | The Curtis Publishing Company Building and Independence Hall, Philadelphia, Pa. Credit: Library of Congress. |
![]() | Copy of Curtis Publishing Co. and Independence Hall, Philadelphia. Credit: Library of Congress. | ![]() | Crowell-Collier Publishing Co., Springfield, Ohio. "Old Timers". Credit: Library of Congress. |
Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits. | |||
| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Health | It is in Part II where the vocabulary process becomes important as authors publishing advanced research frequently use highly specialized language. (references) | |
Many journals already have online publishing operations, and there is a growing tendency to publish material online only, to the exclusion of print. (references) | ||
CURE works to stimulate innovative epilepsy research through private funding sources and by publishing the long overlooked need for a cure for this disease. (references) | ||
Business | A large-scale experiment with electronic publishing started in November 1999 using satellite. (references) | |
Book publishing is more open and competitive in Taiwan now than anywhere else in the Pacific region. (references) | ||
In 2000, there were 7,031 registered publishing houses (many with just two or three employees) in Taiwan. (references) | ||
Civil Liberties | Burundi | Pancrace Cimpaye, the publisher of La Lumiere, chose to go into exile after receiving threats for publishing a list of the names and provinces of origin of all military officers in March. (references) |
China | The PEN American Center reported that during 2000 there was a tightening of the publishing rules. (references) | |
Poland | In May 2000, the Warsaw district court ruled that the daily newspaper, Zycie, must apologize to President Aleksander Kwasniewski for publishing untrue information suggesting that the President had contacts with Russian spies. (references) | |
Economic History | Mexico | Particularly popular are business service firms, advertising agencies, financial consulting, educational services, printing and publishing, temporary job services, training centers, and automotive services. (references) |
China | Newly established Beijing Radio, Film and TV Corporation combines the reach of TV stations, radio stations, publishing houses, and audio and video companies. (references) | |
Lebanon | A weekly Middle-East edition of the French newspaper Le Monde began publishing in Lebanon. (references) | |
Human Rights | Bahamas | A wide variety of domestic and international human rights groups generally operate without government restriction, investigating and publishing their findings on human rights cases. (references) |
Kuwait | In March a private citizen brought a criminal court case against a writer for publishing obscene materials during the year. (references) | |
Liechtenstein | A few international and domestic human rights groups in genera operate without government restriction, investigating and publishing their findings on human rights cases. (references) | |
Minorities | Ukraine | Leaders of the Jewish community welcomed changes in the editorial staffs of the newspapers Vechirniy Kyiv and Za Vilnu Ukrayinu in late 2000. Under new editors, these newspapers, which had been among the chief offenders in publishing anti-Semitic articles, ceased such activity. (references) |
Ukraine | The procuracy warned certain publications against publishing anti-Semitic material. (references) | |
China | The author of a history of the Uighurs that was severely criticized by provincial-level and national authorities in the mid-1990s remains prohibited from publishing or from meeting with foreigners. (references) | |
Political Economy | Sudan | Newspapers are prohibited from publishing articles about the war with the exception of information provided by the Ministry of Defense or official government statements. (references) |
Sudan | The following journalists arrested in 2000 remained in custody at year's end: Osman Mirghani, journalist for Al Rai Al-Aam who was arrested in August for an article criticizing government education policy; Alwola Burhi Kaidani, a journalist for Al-Rai Al Akhar, who was arrested in August for an "anti-government" article; and Kamal Hassan Bakheit, Chief Editor of Al Sahafa and four of the paper's journalists arrested and detained in March for publishing poetry calling on Egypt to rescue the country from "the unjust war" and writing an article supportive of the NDA. (references) | |
China | During the year, several publications were shut down or disciplined for publishing material deemed objectionable by the Government, and journalists, authors, and researchers were harassed, detained, and arrested by the authorities; several were fired. (references) | |
Trade | China | The 1992 U.S.-China bilateral market access MOU committed China to publishing all relevant laws, rules, regulations, administrative guidance and policies governing foreign trade that are not currently published. (references) |
China | Most government ministries have taken to publishing digests of their regulations, both in hardcopy and on their websites. (references) | |
Egypt | The Egyptian Organization for Standardization and Quality Control (EOS) in the Ministry of Industry has sole responsibility for establishing, adopting, and publishing food standards and codes of practice. (references) | |
Women | Poland | These groups are active advocates of gender equality and advance their goals through research, monitoring, and publishing. (references) |
Worker Rights | Armenia | Traffickers may be prosecuted under different articles of the Criminal Code: For example, illicit seizure of non-property documents (passports or other personal documents), as well as use of these documents, may be punished by imprisonment up to 1 year; falsification and selling of documents, by imprisonment up to 5 years; pandering, by imprisonment up to 5 years; bogus marriage and bogus divorce with mercenary ends or other reasons, by imprisonment up to 1 year; extortion (coercion of a person, or coercion by publishing compromising information about a person), by imprisonment from 2 to 4 years; coercing of a woman to perform sexual intercourse by a person on whom this women is financially (or economically) dependent by imprisonment up to 7 years. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| Speaker | Phrase(s) |
Jermaine Jackson | It's a bigger price tag the publishing instead of the LP. We'll go into that later. It is a bigger price tag. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| "Publishing" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 46.76% of the time. "Publishing" is used about 1,897 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 46.76% | 887 | 8,026 |
| Lexical Verb (-ing form) | 33.49% | 635 | 10,242 |
| Noun (proper) | 12.53% | 238 | 19,410 |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 6.85% | 130 | 28,019 |
| Noun (common) | 0.37% | 7 | 133,076 |
| Total | 100.00% | 1,897 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| Country | Name | Country | Name |
| Australia | Publishing and Broadcasting Limited | Greece | Attica Publishing |
| Japan | Kadokawa Shoten Publishing | Philippines | Manila Bulletin Publishing Corporation |
| Singapore | Times Publishing Limited | Thailand | The Post Publishing Public Co., Ltd. |
| United Kingdom | Bloomsbury Publishing Plc | USA | Casino Journal Publishing Group, Inc. |
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Source: compiled by the editor from Icon Group International, Inc.
Expressions using "publishing": desktop publishing ♦ electronic publishing ♦ printing and publishing ♦ publishing company ♦ publishing conglomerate ♦ publishing contract ♦ publishing empire ♦ publishing firm ♦ publishing house ♦ publishing office ♦ software Publishing Corporation. Additional references. | |
| Hyphenated Usage | |
Beginning with "publishing": publishing-house, Publishing-printing, publishing-to-oil, publishing-to-property, publishing-to-tableware. | |
Ending with "publishing": book-publishing, non-publishing, self-publishing. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day | Expression | Frequency per Day |
publishing | 1,698 | mcgraw hill publishing | 114 |
publishing company | 1,227 | desktop publishing software | 113 |
book publishing | 1,202 | ebook publishing | 108 |
desktop publishing | 963 | concordia publishing house | 106 |
self publishing | 572 | wadsworth publishing | 101 |
group publishing | 252 | publishing agent | 98 |
child book publishing | 227 | southwestern publishing | 98 |
web publishing | 219 | gospel publishing house | 95 |
publishing house | 208 | ezine publishing | 92 |
west publishing | 192 | ddc publishing | 88 |
publishing job | 191 | custom publishing | 87 |
music publishing | 188 | e publishing | 86 |
standard publishing | 183 | magazine publishing | 86 |
publishing software | 164 | publishing trader | 81 |
book publishing company | 158 | publishing and printing | 80 |
poetry publishing | 144 | transwestern publishing | 77 |
online publishing | 135 | book self publishing | 75 |
riverside publishing | 119 | jordan publishing signature | 74 |
web publishing software | 119 | pearson publishing | 70 |
publishing services vhps | 114 | electronic publishing | 68 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |||
| Language | Translations for "publishing"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Albanian | shtëpi botuese (publisher, publishing house). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Arabic | نشر (apply, be published, bear, braying, bring out, broadcast, circulate, diffusion, dispose, disseminate, distribute, edition, expand, extend, fudge, gazette, give out, hang out, insert in a newspaper, irradiate, issue, overspread, peddle, pervade, popularize, print, proclaim, programming, promulgate, promulgation, propagation, publicize, put forth, put out, run, saw, sawing, sawn, scatter, shake out, sow, spread, sprinkle, strew, thrust, trephine, unfold, unroll, unwrap), طبعة (edition, impression, output, print, printing, squeeze), طبع (etching, grain, habit, impression, inscribe, instill, instillation, lithograph, mood, nature, normalize, print, printing, redaction, run, stamp, temper, temperament). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | издателска професия, издаване (delation, denouncement, denunciation, disclosure, divulgation, emission, issuance, issue, publication). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Chinese | 出版 (publish, Published). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Czech | stolní edièní systém (desktop publishing), nakladatelství (publishing house). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Danish | udgivelse (publication), udgive (issue, publish), forlagsvirksomhed. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch | publiceren (publicize, publish, reveal), uitgeverijen, uitgeven (issue, pay out, publish, spend). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Esperanto | eldonejo (publisher, publishing house). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Faeroese | forlag (publisher, publishing house). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Finnish | kustantaminen, julkaiseminen (announcement, publication). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | édition (publication). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Frisian | útjouwerij (publisher, publishing house). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | publizieren (publicize, publish), veroeffentlichen, verlagswesen, Verlagsgewerbe, herausgabe (delivery, edition, handing back, handing over, issue, publication, return, surrender), eröffnung (at the opening, disclosure, inauguration, initiation, institution, Lancing, launch, opening, revelation). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | έκδοση (edition, emission, issuance, issue, publication), εκδόσεις (publications). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hebrew | "וצא" לאור (edition, publication, publishing house). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | nyomtatás és kiadás (printing and publishing), kiadóvállalat (publishing house), kiadó (publisher, publishing house, publishing office). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | editoria. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Kanji | 版行 (printing, sealling), 印行 . (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Katakana | い""う (harlotry, obscenity, throat, towing, tuging), は""う (circulation, clan school, counteroffensive, crime, criminal act, daimyo, defiance, distribution, feudal lord, han school, hostility, insubordination, offence, opposition, printing, promulgation, rebellion, resistance, sealling). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Korean | 간행. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Manx | soilshaghey magh (advert, advertise, advertising, announce, announcer, burst forth, declare, denote, depict, exposition, publicise, publish, reveal, revelation, set forth), kiaullanaghey (divulgation, divulge), cur magh lioaryn. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | ublishingpay wydawnictwo (publisher, publishing house). (various references) publicar (announce, bill, bring out, create, get out, issue, print, proclaim, produce, publish, put forth, reveal, set out), imprimir (engraft, impress, imprint, ingraft, print, print out, stamp, strike off), editar (create, edit, issue, produce, publish, put out, redact), edição (edition, issue). (various references) editorial (editorial), editare (publication), activitate editorialã. (various references) публиковать издание. (various references) objavljivanje (annunciation, publication), izdavanje (issuance, issue, issuing). (various references) publicación (advice, airing, announcement, appearance, communication, insertion, message, notice, proclamation, publication, putting forth, putting up, release, report), edición (desktop publishing, editing, edition, impression, issue). (various references) publicerande (publiching, publicizing, publicly), publicera (carry, issue, publicize, publish, reveal), offentliggöra (post, publish, reveal), bokutgivning. (various references) yayınlama (emission, issuance, issue, launching, promulgation, publication, view), yayıncılık, yayın (air, broadcast, broadcasting, edition, publication). (various references) neюirяat (publishing house). (various references) видавнича справа, видавничий, видання твору. (various references) nh xuất bản (book house, publishing house). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | divulgatio. (various references) |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "publishing": publishings. (additional references) | |
Words ending with "publishing": copublishing, micropublishing, republishing. (additional references) | |
Words containing "publishing": micropublishings. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "publishing" (pronounced pu"blishing) |
| 6 | -b l i sh i ng | establishing, reestablishing. |
| 5 | -l i sh i ng | accomplishing, demolishing, embellishing, polishing, relishing. |
| 4 | -i sh i ng | admonishing, anguishing, astonishing, banishing, brandishing, diminishing, distinguishing, extinguishing, finishing, flourishing, languishing, lavishing, nourishing, photofinishing, punishing, refinishing, refurbishing, relinquishing, replenishing, skirmishing, vanishing. |
| 3 | -sh i ng | abolishing, ambushing, bashing, blushing, brainwashing, brushing, cashing, clashing, crashing, crushing, dashing, dishing, fishing, flashing, flushing, furbishing, furnishing, gnashing, gushing, hashing, lashing, meshing, onrushing, overfishing, pushing, quashing, ravishing, refreshing, rehashing, rushing, slashing, sloshing, smashing, splashing, squashing, stashing, tarnishing, thrashing, trashing, unleashing, washing, wishing. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "b-g-h-i-i-l-n-p-s-u" | |
-2 letters: blushing. | |
-3 letters: bluings, bushing, bushpig, ghiblis, gunship, huipils, lisping, lushing, pilings, pishing, publish, pulings, pulsing, pushing, sibling, sliping, spiling. | |
-4 letters: blinis, bluing, bluish, busing, ghibli, huipil, isling, lipins, lubing, lungis, lupins, nihils, pignus, piling, puling, punish, siping, sluing, spuing, unship. | |
-5 letters: blini, blips, blush, buhls, bungs, gulps, hilus, iglus, lings, lipin, lungi, lungs, lupin. | |
| Words containing the letters "b-g-h-i-i-l-n-p-s-u" | |
+1 letter: publishings. | |
+2 letters: copublishing, republishing, shipbuilding. | |
+3 letters: shipbuildings. | |
+5 letters: micropublishing. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro. | |
| 1. Definition 2. Synonyms 3. Crosswords 4. Usage: Modern | 5. Usage: Commercial 6. Images: Slideshow 7. Images: Photo Album 8. Quotations: Non-fiction | 9. Quotations: Spoken 10. Usage Frequency 11. Names: Company Usage 12. Expressions | 13. Expressions: Internet 14. Translations: Modern 15. Translations: Ancient 16. Derivations | 17. Rhymes 18. Anagrams 19. Bibliography |
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