public

1. public (adj) — sense 1

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

Example: 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.

Concept: Публичность

Polarities of the concept

2. public (adj) — sense 2

Definition: 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.

Example: public library    public park

3. public (adj) — sense 3

Definition: 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.: Of a company: having shares of stock traded publicly, for example, through a stock market.

4. public (noun) — sense 4

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

Example: Members of the public may not proceed beyond this point.

5. public (noun) — sense 5

Definition: 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.

Example: By dint of drinking acid tiff, as above mentioned, and smoking segars, in which I am no novice, my Public are to be informed, that I gradually drank and smoked myself into a certain degree of acquaintance with un homme comme il faut [a decent man], one of the few fine old specimens of nobility who are still to be found in France; […]

6. public (noun) — sense 6

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

Example: the cinema-going public

7. public (verb) — sense 7

Definition: To make (something) openly or widely known; to publicize, to publish.

Example: [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.