publish
/ˈpʌblɪʃ/
Word Rarity
Uncommon
Frequency: Zipf frequency 4.10 in modern English
14
Scrabble Score
7
Letters
2
Syllables
7
Unique Chars
Meaning
verb
To make (information such as an event) available to components that wish to be notified (subscribers).
Example Sentences
- "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."
- "The State combined public information strategies and published billboards, pamphlets, and newsletter articles under the campaign theme, Give 'Em the Boot."
- "In an article published in 2008 [Gérard] Mourou proposed an alternative means of achieving atomic fusion. He now believes that fibre lasers could be used to transmute elements, as a way of disposing of highly radioactive waste from nuclear power stations."
- "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."
Etymology
From Middle English publicen (by analogy with banish, finish), from Old French publier, from Latin publicare (“to make public, show or tell to the people, make known, declare, also (and earlier) confiscate for public use”), from publicus (“pertaining to the people, public”); see public.
Origin
Word Breakdown
- Root: publicen, publier, publicare
Usage
Inflected Forms
publishes (present, singular)
publishing (participle, present)
published (participle, past)
published (past)
no-table-tags (table tags)
glossary (inflection template)
published (first person, past)
publishest (archaic, present)
published (past, second person)
publishedst (archaic, past)
publisheth (archaic, present)
published (past, singular)