publish
/ˈpʌblɪʃ/ verb A2- To issue (something, such as printed work) for distribution and/or sale. · The Times published the investigative piece about the governor both in print and online.· Most of the sketches Faulkner published in 1925 appeared in the Sunday magazine section of the New Orleans Times-Picayune.
- To announce to the public. · The Secretary of Health and Human Services published a press release on May 22, 2013.· The Bolshevik government published an announcement of the tsar's death.
- To issue the work of (an author). · Grove Press published many avant-garde authors.
- To disseminate (a message) publicly via a newsgroup, forum, blog, etc.
- To issue a medium (e.g. publication). · Major city papers still publish daily.
- To have one's work accepted for a publication. · She needs to publish in order to get tenure.
- To be made available in a printed publication or other medium. · The article first published online, then in print the next day.
- To make (information such as an event) available to components that wish to be notified (subscribers).
Plural publish · He/she/it publishes · Past published · Past participle published · -ing form publishing
Verb forms
- Base form
- publish
- He/she/it
- publishes
- Past
- published
- Past participle
- published
- -ing form
- publishing
From the library
A man arrived yesterday from Yanina, bringing a formidable array of documents; and when we hesitated to publish the accusatory article, he told us it should be inserted in some other paper.”
A promise of secrecy was of course very dutifully given, but it could not be kept without difficulty; for the curiosity excited by his long absence burst forth in such very direct questions on his return, as required some ingenuity to evade, and he was at the same time exercising great self-denial, for he was longing to publish his prosperous love.
“Sir,” said the notary, whose interest had been greatly excited, and who had resolved on publishing far and wide the account of this extraordinary and picturesque scene, “what appeared so impossible to me an hour ago, has now become quite easy and practicable, and this may be a perfectly valid will, provided it be read in the presence of seven witnesses, approved by the testator, and sealed by the notary in the presence of the witnesses.
The library was divided into two parts on either side of the wall, and contained upwards of two thousand volumes; one division was entirely devoted to novels, and even the volume which had been published but the day before was to be seen in its place in all the dignity of its red and gold binding.
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