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publish definition

pub·lish (pub′lis̸h)

transitive verb

  1. to make publicly known; announce, proclaim, divulge, or promulgate
    1. to issue (a printed work, etc.) to the public, as for sale
    2. to issue the written work or works of (a particular author)
  3. Law to execute (a will)

Etymology: ME publisshen < extended stem of OFr publier < L publicare, to make public < publicus, public

intransitive verb

  1. to issue books, newspapers, printed music, etc. to the public
  2. to write books, scholarly papers, etc. that are published

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publish Synonyms

publish

v.

  1. To print and distribute

    reprint, issue, reissue, distribute, bring out, write, do publishing, bring into the open, get off, get out, put to press, put forth, put about, enter the publishing field, own a publishing house, send forth, give out, give forth; see also print 2.

  2. To make known

    announce, promulgate, declare, proclaim; see advertise 1, declare 1. See syn. study at declare.


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publish Usage Examples

Object

  • article: Below is a copy of a message which I sent to The Lancet in response to the published articles.

Preposition: on

  • website: Wear it wherever you choose, photos published on this website for you in your Glastonbury clothing.

Preposition: as

  • monograph: The proceedings of the day will be published as a monograph later this year.

Adjective complement

  • quarterly: For example, in the humanities journals are typically published quarterly.

Preposition: in

  • journal: However, the scholarly articles published in the journal are the main interest.

Preposition: for

  • consultation: They heard that the next version of the foundation planning document, the Core Strategy was shortly to be published for consultation.
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publish quotes

I'll publish, right or wrong: Fools are my theme, let satire be my song.

-Rochdale

We have a habit in writing articles published in scientific journals to make the work as finished as possible, to cover up all the tracks, to not worryabout the blind alleys or describe how you had the wrong idea first, and so on. So there isn't any place to publish, in a dignified manner, what you actually did in order to do the work.

-Feynman, Richard P(hillips)

I can scarcely fancy myself to ask a superior to publish a volume of my verse and I own that humanly there is very little likelihood of that ever coming to pass. And to be sure if I chose to look at things on one side and not the other I could of course regret this bitterly. But there is more peace and it isthe holier lot to be unknown than to be known.

-Hopkins, SirAnthony

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