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Narrator: Today's word is "Printout" — noun, pronounced /ˈprɪntaʊt/, with the stress on "print".
Narrator: A printout is a page of information printed from a computer.
Narrator: In plain English, it is a paper copy of something on screen.
Narrator: It is a compound from the phrasal verb print out.
Narrator: A common collocation is "a printout of the results", which describes data on paper.
Narrator: It differs from "print", because a print is often a photo or artwork.
Narrator: In computing, printout can also mean debug text printed to the console.
Narrator: Offices, healthcare, education and IT all rely on the word.
Narrator: So remember: a printout is the computer's words on paper.
Speaker A: Do I need a printout of my ticket?
Speaker B: Usually not now! PRINTOUT comes from the phrasal verb print out.
Speaker A: So phones replaced it?
Speaker B: Mostly, yes.
Speaker A: Example sentences?
Speaker B: "Bring a printout of your booking", a request. "The printout showed an error", a report. "The doctor gave me a printout", records.
Speaker A: Common mistakes?
Speaker B: The noun is printout as one word; the verb is print out as two.
Speaker A: Close relatives?
Speaker B: Hard copy is its cousin, print is its twin, and handout is the classroom alternative, but printout keeps its office charm!
Speaker B: Let's use "printout" in AI prompts — useful for web apps and reporting tools.
Speaker A: How would web apps use it?
Speaker B: Style for paper.
Prompt: Write print CSS so this invoice page makes a clean one-page printout.
Speaker A: And reporting tools?
Speaker B: Summarise data.
Prompt: Create a printable one-page printout summarising this month's sales figures.
Speaker A: Could it help schools?
Speaker B: Yes, worksheets.
Prompt: Turn this lesson into a printout worksheet with ten questions and space for answers.
Speaker A: One more?
Speaker B: Accessibility.
Prompt: Make this printout large-print friendly with sixteen-point text and high contrast.
Printout — meaning in Arabic & definition More P courses GL Dictionary