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Imprint
Definitions
- 1 An impression; the mark left behind by printing something.
"The day left an imprint in my mind."
- 2 a device produced by pressure on a surface wordnet
- 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 a distinctive influence wordnet
- 5 A distinctive marking, symbol or logo.
"The shirts bore the company imprint on the right sleeve."
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- 6 an impression produced by pressure or printing wordnet
- 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
- 8 a concavity in a surface produced by pressing wordnet
- 1 To leave a print, impression, image, etc.
"For a fee, they can imprint the envelopes with a monogram."
- 2 mark or stamp with or as if with pressure wordnet
- 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 establish or impress firmly in the mind wordnet
- 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
From Old French empreinte, from the past participle of empreindre, from Latin imprimere.
From Middle English emprinten, enprinten, from Old French empreinter, from the past participle of empreindre, from Latin imprimere.
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