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PUBLISH

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 I. (verb) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

Prepare and issue for public distribution or sale

Example:

publish a magazine or newspaper

Synonyms:

bring out; issue; publish; put out; release

Classified under:

Verbs of telling, asking, ordering, singing

Hypernyms (to "publish" is one way to...):

air; bare; publicise; publicize (make public)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "publish"):

edit (supervise the publication of)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s something
Something ----s something

Sentence example:

They won't publish the story

Derivation:

publication (the business of issuing printed matter for sale or distribution)

publication (the act of issuing printed materials)

publication (a copy of a printed work offered for distribution)

publisher (a firm in the publishing business)

publisher (a person engaged in publishing periodicals or books or music)

publisher (the proprietor of a newspaper)

publishing (the business of issuing printed matter for sale or distribution)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Have (one's work) issued for publication

Example:

Mozart didn't publish all of his works

Classified under:

Verbs of sewing, baking, painting, performing

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s
Somebody ----s something

Sentence example:

Did he publish his major works over a short period of time?

Derivation:

publication (a copy of a printed work offered for distribution)

Sense 3

Meaning:

Put into print

Example:

These news should not be printed

Synonyms:

print; publish

Classified under:

Verbs of sewing, baking, painting, performing

Hypernyms (to "publish" is one way to...):

create; make; produce (create or manufacture a man-made product)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "publish"):

republish (publish again)

gazette (publish in a gazette)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s something

Sentence example:

They won't publish the story

Derivation:

publication (the business of issuing printed matter for sale or distribution)

publication (the act of issuing printed materials)

publication (a copy of a printed work offered for distribution)

publisher (a firm in the publishing business)

publisher (a person engaged in publishing periodicals or books or music)

publisher (the proprietor of a newspaper)

Credits

 Context examples: 

ASCO provides training in clinical research and patient care and publishes the Journal of Clinical Oncology.

(American Society of Clinical Oncology, NCI Thesaurus)

Depend upon it, that is a circumstance which his servants take care to publish, wherever he goes.

(Persuasion, by Jane Austen)

"You keep a diary of these events, and you expect eventually to publish it, Mr. Malone," said he, with solemnity.

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Why, Jo, your stories are works of Shakespeare compared to half the rubbish that is published every day.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

It publishes 'Annals of Internal Medicine'.

(American College of Physicians, NCI Thesaurus)

We will already know more once the Interphone study is published.

(Health threats caused by mobile phone radiation, EUROPARL TV)

Far from desiring to publish the connection, he became as anxious to conceal it as myself.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

A standardized survey developed and published by Kurt Kroenke, Robert Spitzer and Janet Williams in 2002 in the journal Psychosomatic Medicine which is used to assess the severity of an individual's somatic symptoms.

(Patient Health Questionnaire - 15 Item, NCI Thesaurus)

According to new research published in the Astrophysical Journal, the object is now thought to be a planet in its own right, with an usually strong magnetic field.

(Astronomers Discover New Planet Not Orbiting Any Star, VOA)

Sleep is essential for both cognition and maintenance of healthy brain function, and slow waves in neural activity contribute to memory consolidation, a study published Thursday in the peer-reviewed journal Science concluded.

(Deep Sleep May Play Role in Preventing Alzheimer’s Disease, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)