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Publication

The act of publishing or making known; notification to the people at large, either by words, writing, or printing; proclamation; divulgation; promulgation; as, the publication of the law at Mount Sinai; the publication of the gospel; the publication of statutes or edicts.

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Book 76% connected

A collection of sheets of paper, or similar material, blank, written, or printed, bound together; commonly, many folded and bound sheets containing c…

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Collection 76% connected

The act or process of collecting or of gathering; as, the collection of specimens.

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Compendium 76% connected

A brief compilation or composition, containing the principal heads, or general principles, of a larger work or system; an abridgment; an epitome; a c…

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Contribution 76% connected

The act of contributing.

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Impression 76% connected

The act of impressing, or the state of being impressed; the communication of a stamp, mold, style, or character, by external force or by influence.

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Magazine 76% connected

A receptacle in which anything is stored, especially military stores, as ammunition, arms, provisions, etc.

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Periodical 76% connected

Of or pertaining to a period or periods, or to division by periods.

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Printing 76% connected

of Print

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Read 76% connected

Rennet. See 3d Reed.

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Reference 76% connected

The act of referring, or the state of being referred; as, reference to a chart for guidance.

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Reissue 76% connected

To issue a second time.

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Reprint 76% connected

To print again; to print a second or a new edition of.

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Republication 76% connected

A second publication, or a new publication of something before published, as of a former will, of a volume already published, or the like; specifical…

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Source 76% connected

The act of rising; a rise; an ascent.

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Volume 76% connected

A roll; a scroll; a written document rolled up for keeping or for use, after the manner of the ancients.

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Business 76% connected

That which busies one, or that which engages the time, attention, or labor of any one, as his principal concern or interest, whether for a longer or…

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Communication 76% connected

The act or fact of communicating; as, communication of smallpox; communication of a secret.

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Printing 76% connected

of Print

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Work 76% connected

Exertion of strength or faculties; physical or intellectual effort directed to an end; industrial activity; toil; employment; sometimes, specifically…

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Publish 74% connected

To make public; to make known to mankind, or to people in general; to divulge, as a private transaction; to promulgate or proclaim, as a law or an ed…

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Publish 74% connected

To make public; to make known to mankind, or to people in general; to divulge, as a private transaction; to promulgate or proclaim, as a law or an ed…

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Component part 7

Art 70% connected

The second person singular, indicative mode, present tense, of the substantive verb Be; but formed after the analogy of the plural are, with the endi…

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Cartoon 70% connected

A design or study drawn of the full size, to serve as a model for transferring or copying; -- used in the making of mosaics, tapestries, fresco panti…

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Contents 70% connected

of Content

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Graphics 70% connected

The art or the science of drawing; esp. of drawing according to mathematical rules, as in perspective, projection, and the like.

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Sketch 70% connected

An outline or general delineation of anything; a first rough or incomplete draught or plan of any design; especially, in the fine arts, such a repres…

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Spread 70% connected

of Spread

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Text 70% connected

A discourse or composition on which a note or commentary is written; the original words of an author, in distinction from a paraphrase, annotation, o…

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Issue 92% connected

The act of passing or flowing out; a moving out from any inclosed place; egress; as, the issue of water from a pipe, of blood from a wound, of air fr…

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Publishing 92% connected

of Publish

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