publishing
出版
解説 Definition
本や雑誌、新聞などの出版物を作成して世に広める活動のことです。著者の作品を読者に提供する産業や事業です。
Publishing is the business or process of producing books, magazines, newspapers, or digital content for the public. It is often used when talking about writing, printing, editing, and selling written works. The word can refer to both traditional print media and online publishing.
覚え方のコツ Memory Tip
publish を知っていれば、その -ing 形で「出版すること・出版業」と押さえやすい。語幹は public と近く、「広く人の前に出す」感覚でつながる。publish a book, publish an article のように作品を世に出し、名詞の publishing になると publishing industry のように業界全体も指す。printing は単なる印刷、publishing は編集・企画・販売まで含みやすい。この範囲の広さを軸にすると忘れにくい。publisher、publication も一緒に束で覚える。
Start from the verb publish, then add -ing: publishing is the activity or business of publish. Think of public inside the word: something is made public and sent out to many people. Remember common pairs like publishing industry, book publishing, and compare it with printing, which is only one part of the process.
例文
She works in publishing and loves her job.
彼女は出版業界で働いていて、彼女の仕事を愛しています。
The publishing industry is rapidly changing with digital books.
出版業界は電子書籍で急速に変わっています。
His dream is to work in book publishing.
彼の夢は本の出版に携わることです。
publishing の類義語・関連語
publishing の語源・成り立ち Etymology
ラテン語 publicare(公にする)から古フランス語 publier を経て英語に。pub-(公の)+ -lish(動詞化)+ -ing(名詞化)。関連語: public(公共の)、publication(出版物)。「公衆に知らしめる行為」が原義で、書物を世に出す意味に発展した。
This word comes from Latin publicare, meaning "make public," which passed through Old French publier into English. It is built around the same root as public and publication. The original idea was making something known openly, and from that it developed into the act of bringing books or writing out to the public.
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