IMPRINT

imprint

(noun) a device produced by pressure on a surface

imprint

(noun) a distinctive influence; “English stills bears the imprint of the Norman invasion”

imprint, embossment

(noun) an impression produced by pressure or printing

imprint

(noun) an identification of a publisher; a publisher’s name along with the date and address and edition that is printed at the bottom of the title page; “the book was published under a distinguished imprint”

depression, impression, imprint

(noun) a concavity in a surface produced by pressing; “he left the impression of his fingers in the soft mud”

impress, imprint

(verb) mark or stamp with or as if with pressure; “To make a batik, you impress a design with wax”

imprint, form

(verb) establish or impress firmly in the mind; “We imprint our ideas onto our children”

Source: WordNet® 3.1


Etymology 1

Noun

imprint (plural imprints)

An impression; the mark left behind by printing something.

The name and details of a publisher or printer, as printed in a book etc.; a publishing house.

A distinctive marking, symbol or logo.

Etymology 2

Verb

imprint (third-person singular simple present imprints, present participle imprinting, simple past and past participle imprinted)

To leave a print, impression, image, etc.

To learn something indelibly at a particular stage of life, such as who one's parents are.

To mark a gene as being from a particular parent so that only one of the two copies of the gene is expressed.

Source: Wiktionary


Im*print", v. t. [imp. & p. p. Imptrinted; p. pr. & vb. n. Imprinting.] Etym: [OE. emprenten, F. empreint, p. p. of empreindre to imprint, fr. L. imprimere to impres, imprint. See 1st In-, Print, and cf. Impress.]

1. To impress; to mark by pressure; to indent; to stamp. And sees his num'rous herds imprint her sands. Prior.

2. To stamp or mark, as letters on paper, by means of type, plates, stamps, or the like; to print the mark (figures, letters, etc., upon something). Nature imprints upon whate'er we see, That has a heart and life in it, "Be free." Cowper.

3. To fix indelibly or permanently, as in the mind or memory; to impress. Ideas of those two different things distinctly imprinted on his mind. Locke.

Im"print, n. Etym: [Cf. F. empreinte impress, stamp. See Imprint, v. t.]

Definition: Whatever is impressed or imprinted; the impress or mark left by something; specifically, the name of the printer or publisher (usually) with the time and place of issue, in the title-page of a book, or on any printed sheet. "That imprint of their hands." Buckle.

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition



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