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Publishing

Definition: Publishing

Publishing

Noun

1. 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)


Specialty Definition: Publishing

DomainDefinition

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.

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Specialty Definition: Publishing

(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."

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Synonym: Publishing

Synonym: publication (n). (additional references)

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Crosswords: Publishing

English words defined with "publishing": avoidcore, core groupDivulgationeditorial departmentLeipzignucleusPreconization, publication, publisher, publishing company, publishing conglomerate, publishing empire, publishing firm, publishing houserepublication, republishing. (references)
Specialty definitions using "publishing": AT Attachment Packet Interfaceboundary disclaimerComputer Graphics Metafile, Corel Corporation, Corel VENTURA, Coronal equilibriumdead beef attack, Diamagnetic drift speed, DIRECTOR, EDUCATIONAL PROGRAMMING, DIRECTOR, SECURITIES AND REAL ESTATE, Double layer, DTP, Duplicate PublicationEDITOR, TECHNICAL AND SCIENTIFIC PUBLICATIONS, enhanced document processing, Extraordinary ModeHarvard Graphics, High-level Data Link Controlinquiry/response system, Intergalactic Plasma, Internet Information Server, Interstellar Plasma, Issuing Carriermanager, technical and scientific publications, Multimedia and Hypermedia information coding Expert Groupnews information resource manager, NEWS LIBRARIAN, news library director, newspaper library manager, NISOOA, Object Linking and EmbeddingPM 36, processable mode 36Q113Secretary Of The Senate, Software Publishing Corporation, SPC, supervisor, publications, SyQuest Technology, Inc.United States Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality. (references)

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Modern Usage: Publishing

DomainUsage

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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Commercial Usage: Publishing

DomainTitle

References

  • Casino Journal Publishing Group, Inc.: International Competitive Benchmarks and Financial Gap Analysis (reference)

  • Attica Publishing: International Competitive Benchmarks and Financial Gap Analysis (reference)

  • Electronic Publishing in Germany: A Strategic Entry Report, 1997 (reference)

  • Bloomsbury Publishing Plc: International Competitive Benchmarks and Financial Gap Analysis (reference)

  • C&B Publishing PLC: International Competitive Benchmarks and Financial Gap Analysis (reference)

    (more reference examples)

  

Books

  • MLA Style Manual and Guide to Scholarly Publishing (2d ed) (reference)

  • Management for Research Libraries Cooperation: (Papers from the Association of American Universities and Arl(Association of Research Libraries) Program for Electronic Publishing and Shared Global r (reference)

  • Complete Publishing Resource Manual (Able, Linda. Complete Publishing Manuals, It's Easy!,) (reference)

  • Publishing with Illustrator & Freehand (reference)

  • Growing and Using Lavender (Storey Publishing Bulletin, A-155) (reference)

    (more book examples)

  

Periodicals

  • Printing Publishing And Allied Industries (reference)

  • American Book Publishing Record Annual Cumulative (reference)

  • Color Desktop Publishing Product Monthly (reference)

  • Directory Of Publishing : United Kingdom Commonwealth And Overseas (reference)

  • Cabells Directory Of Publishing Opportunities In Educational Curriculum And Methods (reference)

    (more periodical examples)

  

High Tech

  

Consumer Goods

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Image Slideshow: Publishing

Illustrations:
Publishing

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Photo Album: Publishing

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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.

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Non-Fiction Usage: Publishing

SubjectTopicQuote

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.

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Spoken Usage: Publishing

SpeakerPhrase(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.

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Usage Frequency: Publishing

"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 SpeechPercentUsage per
100 Million Words
Rank in English
Noun (singular)46.76%8878,026
Lexical Verb (-ing form)33.49%63510,242
Noun (proper)12.53%23819,410
Adjective (general or positive)6.85%13028,019
Noun (common)0.37%7133,076
                    Total100.00%1,897N/A

Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Usage in Company Names: Publishing

CountryNameCountryName
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.

 (more examples...)  

Source: compiled by the editor from Icon Group International, Inc.

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Expressions: Publishing

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.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Publishing

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.
 
ExpressionFrequency
per Day
ExpressionFrequency
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.

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Modern Translation: Publishing

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

   

Polish

  

wydawnictwo (publisher, publishing house). (various references)

   

Portuguese

  

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)

   

Romanian

  

editorial (editorial), editare (publication), activitate editorialã. (various references)

   

Russian 

  

публиковать издание. (various references)

   

Serbo-Croatian

  

objavljivanje (annunciation, publication), izdavanje (issuance, issue, issuing). (various references)

   

Spanish

  

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)

   

Swedish

  

publicerande (publiching, publicizing, publicly), publicera (carry, issue, publicize, publish, reveal), offentliggöra (post, publish, reveal), bokutgivning. (various references)

   

Turkish

  

yayınlama (emission, issuance, issue, launching, promulgation, publication, view), yayıncılık, yayın (air, broadcast, broadcasting, edition, publication). (various references)

   

Turkmen 

  

neюirяat (publishing house). (various references)

   

Ukrainian

  

видавнича справа, видавничий, видання твору. (various references)

   

Vietnamese 

  

nh xuất bản (book house, publishing house). (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Ancestral Language Translations: Publishing

LanguagePeriodTranslations
Latin500 BCE-Modern

divulgatio. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Derivations: Publishing

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).

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Rhyming with "Publishing"

# of Phoneme MatchesPronunciationWord(s) rhyming with "publishing" (pronounced pu"blishing)
6-b l i sh i ngestablishing, reestablishing.
5-l i sh i ngaccomplishing, demolishing, embellishing, polishing, relishing.
4-i sh i ngadmonishing, anguishing, astonishing, banishing, brandishing, diminishing, distinguishing, extinguishing, finishing, flourishing, languishing, lavishing, nourishing, photofinishing, punishing, refinishing, refurbishing, relinquishing, replenishing, skirmishing, vanishing.
3-sh i ngabolishing, 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.

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Anagrams: Publishing

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.

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INDEX

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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