publish
- to issue (printed or otherwise reproduced textual or graphic material, computer software, etc.) for sale or distribution to the public.
- to issue publicly the work of: Random House publishes Faulkner.
- to submit (content) online, as to a message board or blog: I published a comment on her blog post with examples from my own life. They publish a new webcomic once a month.
- to announce formally or officially; proclaim; promulgate.
- to make publicly or generally known.
- Law. to communicate (a defamatory statement) to some person or persons other than the person defamed.
- to issue newspapers, books, computer software, etc.; engage in publishing: The new house will start to publish next month.
- to have one's work published: She has decided to publish with another house.
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Examples from the Web for unpublished
Contemporary Examples of unpublished
Such details are contained in 16 pages of previously unpublished emails and memos obtained by the Center for Public Integrity.
Koch Foundation to College: We’ll Give You Millions—if You Teach Our Libertarian IdeologyCenter for Public Integrity
September 12, 2014
Posner declined to discuss the contents of the unpublished Saudi textbook study in the interview.
Then, in Jan. 2011, Mutual spent $25,000 to acquire the rights to Marcel, an unpublished story set in Paris during World War II.
How Four Men Conned People Into Investing in a Jean-Claude Van Damme-Starring WWII EpicMarlow Stern
February 21, 2014
It was, in fact, an unpublished creationist text that had been around for some time.
Two previously unpublished stories draw from her days in psychiatric hospitals.
Historical Examples of unpublished
Did you not say it was an unpublished song written by a messmate of yours?
The CavalierGeorge Washington Cable
Replies to Matthew Arnold's American criticisms (unpublished).
Mark Twain, A Biography, 1835-1910, CompleteAlbert Bigelow Paine
It was unpublished at the time of his death, but could not be found among his papers.
Old-Time Makers of MedicineJames J. Walsh
From an unpublished trial in the Justiciary Court at Edinburgh.
The Witch-cult in Western EuropeMargaret Alice Murray
It has an airy freshness, and is (as I believe) unpublished.
unpublished
- not available in print for distribution and sale
- having no written work issued for publicationan unpublished undergraduate
publish
- to produce and issue (printed or electronic matter) for distribution and sale
- (intr) to have one's written work issued for publication
- (tr) to announce formally or in public
- (tr) to communicate (defamatory matter) to someone other than the person defamedto publish a libel
Word Origin for publish
Word Origin and History for unpublished
publish
mid-14c., "make publicly known, reveal, divulge, announce;" alteration of publicen (early 14c.) by influence of banish, finish, etc.; from extended stem of Old French publier "make public, spread abroad, communicate," from Latin publicare "make public," from publicus "public" (see public). Meaning "issue (a book, etc.) to the public" is from late 14c., also "to disgrace, put to shame; denounce publicly." Related: Published; publishing. In Middle English the verb also meant "to people, populate; to multiply, breed" (late 14c.), e.g. ben published of "be descended from."