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Definition of Imprint

1. Noun. A distinctive influence. "English stills bears the imprint of the Norman invasion"

2. Verb. Establish or impress firmly in the mind. "We imprint our ideas onto our children"

3. Noun. A concavity in a surface produced by pressing. "He left the impression of his fingers in the soft mud"

4. Verb. Mark or stamp with or as if with pressure. "To make a batik, you impress a design with wax"

5. 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"

6. Noun. An impression produced by pressure or printing.

7. Noun. A device produced by pressure on a surface.

Definition of Imprint

1. v. t. To impress; to mark by pressure; to indent; to stamp.

2. n. 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.

Definition of Imprint

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

2. Noun. The name and details of a publisher or printer, as printed in a book etc.; a publishing house. ¹

3. Noun. A distinctive marking, symbol or logo. ¹

4. Verb. To leave a print, impression, image, etc. ¹

5. Verb. To learn something indelibly at a particular stage of life, such as who one's mother is. ¹

6. Verb. To mark a gene as being from a particular parent so that only one of the two copies of the gene is expressed. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Imprint

1. to produce a mark by pressure [v -ED, -ING, -S]

Medical Definition of Imprint

1. 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) Origin: OE. Emprenten, F. Empreint, p. P. Of empreindre to imprint, fr. L. Imprimere to impres, imprint. See 1st In-, Print, and cf. Impress. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Imprint

impressor impressors impresst impressure impressures imprest imprests impreventable imprimantur imprimatur

imprimaturs imprimery impriming imprimings imprimis imprint (current term) imprinted imprinter imprinters imprintings

imprints imprison imprison'd imprisonable imprisoned imprisoner imprisoners imprisoning imprisonment

Literary usage of Imprint

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Real Shelley: New Views of the Poet's Life by John Cordy Jeaffreson (1885)
"imprint of Queen Mab — The Poem's Notes — The Author's Views touching Marriage—Places of Abode in London—Presentation Copies— Shelley ' a I.ion '—Half-Moon ..."

2. Catalog Rules: Author and Title Entries by American Library Association., James Christian Meinich Hanson, Library Association. (1908)
"6 Two places connected by AND, UND, ET, etc., or by a dash (-) or other device, with publisher's name either preceding or following.— Give imprint in the ..."

3. The Jesuit Relations and Allied Documents: Travels and Explorations of the by Jesuits, Reuben Gold Thwaites (1900)
"The copy in Lenox Library has this imprint: " Paris | Société du Pantheon ... The Lenox copy of vol. iii. has this imprint on the cover-title : " Paris | au ..."

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