Imprint

//ˈɪm.pɹɪnt// noun, verb

Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    An impression; the mark left behind by printing something.

    "The day left an imprint in my mind."

  2. 2
    a device produced by pressure on a surface wordnet
  3. 3
    The name and details of a publisher or printer, as printed in a book etc.; a publishing house.

    "From their Belmont Avenue address they issued such memorable titles as I Peddle Jazz, Camera Bait, Our Flesh Was Cheap, Lesbian Twins, and His Sex, His Problem under at least four different imprints—Saber, Fabian, Vega, and National Library Books."

  4. 4
    a distinctive influence wordnet
  5. 5
    A distinctive marking, symbol or logo.

    "The shirts bore the company imprint on the right sleeve."

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  1. 6
    an impression produced by pressure or printing wordnet
  2. 7
    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 wordnet
  3. 8
    a concavity in a surface produced by pressing wordnet
Verb
  1. 1
    To leave a print, impression, image, etc.

    "For a fee, they can imprint the envelopes with a monogram."

  2. 2
    mark or stamp with or as if with pressure wordnet
  3. 3
    To learn something indelibly at a particular stage of life, such as who one's parents are.

    "That is, by way of this initial imprinting the young animal becomes a socialized member of its species. Animals misimprinted to other species show a variety of abnormal social behaviors as adults."

  4. 4
    establish or impress firmly in the mind wordnet
  5. 5
    To mark a gene as being from a particular parent so that only one of the two copies of the gene is expressed.

Etymology

Etymology 1

From Old French empreinte, from the past participle of empreindre, from Latin imprimere.

Etymology 2

From Middle English emprinten, enprinten, from Old French empreinter, from the past participle of empreindre, from Latin imprimere.

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