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Tanımlar (İngilizce)

1. sıfat Able to be known or seen by everyone; happening without concealment; open to general view.

   “VVith ſcoffes and ſcornes, and contumelious taunts, / In open Market-place produc't they me, / To be a publique ſpectacle to all: / Here, ſayd they, is the Terror of the French, / The Scar-Crovv that affrights our Children ſo.”

2. sıfat Open to all members of a community, as opposed to only a segment of it; especially, provided by national or local authorities and supported by money from taxes.

   “public library    public park”

3. sıfat Of a company: having shares of stock traded publicly, for example, through a stock market.
4. sıfat Pertaining to the people as a whole, as opposed to a group of people; concerning the whole community or country.

   “[S]tanding publick Records have been kept of theſe vvell atteſted Relations, and Epocha’s made of thoſe unvvonted events.”

5. sıfat Officially representing the community; carried out or funded by the government or state on behalf of the community, rather than by a private organization.

   “public housing    public officer    public prosecutor    public servant”

6. sıfat Pertaining to a person in the capacity in which they deal with other people on a formal or official basis, as opposed to a personal or private capacity; official, professional.

   “public face    public image”

7. sıfat Of an object: accessible to the program in general, not only to a class or subclass.
8. sıfat Pertaining to nations collectively, or to nations regarded as civilized; international, supernational.

   “[…] Nicodemus had not affirmed him [Jesus] to be a prophete, but ſayde: whoſoeuer he be, he ought not after our common, or rather publike law, (that is to ſaye, a lawe which indifferently perteyneth to all men of euery ſtate) to be condemned, except his cauſe be knowen before.”

9. sıfat Now chiefly in public spirit and public-spirited: seeking to further the best interests or well-being of the community or nation.

   “[T]he ſaid [Joseph] Palumbo vvas reſtrain'd to Saint Lorenzo; but being a popular man, and one knovvn to be a good Patriot, and of a publick ſoul, and a perſon of integrity; there vvere four thouſand of the beſt armed men joyn'd together, to vindicate and free the ſaid Palumbo, […]”

10. sıfat Now only in public figure: famous, prominent, well-known.

    “I VVas not ſo publick here, as to be very vvell knovvn, at leaſt by any one that had Knovvledge of me in the Country vvhere I liv'd; and this vvas indeed my ſafety aftervvard, as you vvill ſoon hear; […]”

11. sıfat In some older universities in the United Kingdom: open or pertaining to the whole university, as opposed to a constituent college or an individual staff member or student.

    “I meruailled, why himſelf [Niccolò Leoniceno] did not practiſe Phiſike of whiche facultee he was a Doctour, and a publique reader: I auaile moche more, ſaieth he, in that I teach all thother Phiſiciãs [physicians].”

12. sıfat Of or pertaining to the human race as a whole; common, universal.

    “In Iron Clouds conceal'd the Publick Light: / And Impious Mortals fear'd Eternal Night.”

13. sıfat Chiefly in make public: of a work: printed or otherwise published.

    “The firſt of his [Hernán Cortés's] diſpatches has never been made public. It vvas ſent from Vera-Cruz, July 16th, 1519.”

14. isim Chiefly preceded by the: members of the community or the people in general, regardless of membership of any particular group.

    “Members of the public may not proceed beyond this point.”

15. isim Preceded by a possessive determiner such as my, your, or their: a group of people who support a particular person, especially a performer, a writer, etc.; an audience, a following.
16. isim Ellipsis of public house or (dated) public bar (“an inn, a pub: the more basic bar in a public house, as contrasted with the lounge bar or saloon bar which has more comfortable seats, personalized service, etc.”).

    “[T]hese inconsiderate lads will be out of the house, and away to the publicks, wasting their precious time, and, it may be, missing the morning tide.”

17. isim Often preceded by the and a qualifying word: a particular demographic or group of people, or segment of the population, sharing some common characteristic.

    “the cinema-going public”

18. isim A group of people sharing some common cultural, political, or social interest, but not necessarily having any interactions with each other.
19. isim Chiefly preceded by the: a collective body of a politically organized nation or state; a body politic, a nation, a state; also, the interest or well-being of such a collective body; the common good.
20. isim At Harvard University: a penalty imposed on a student involving a grade reduction which is communicated to the student's parents or guardian.
21. isim Chiefly in in public: the presence of spectators or people generally; the open.

    “Come follovv vs, / VVe are to ſpeake in publique: for this buſineſſe / VVill raiſe vs all.”

22. fiil To make (something) openly or widely known; to publicize, to publish.

    “[H]e is such a barefooted rubber with my supersocks pulled over his face which I publicked in my bestback garden for the laetification of siderodromites and to the irony of the stars.”

23. isim An internet publication.

    “Russian publics report that the fighters of the Wagner group have already practically taken possession of Soledar, there are fights on the outskirts, where the Vushniks are trying to fight back in the salt mines.”