imprint

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[edit] Etymology

From Old French empreinte (noun), empreinter (verb), from the past participle of empreindre, from Latin imprimere.

[edit] Pronunciation 1

[edit] Noun

Singular
imprint

Plural
imprints

imprint (plural imprints)

  1. An impression; the mark left behind by printing something.
    The day left an imprint in my mind.
  2. The name and details of a publisher or printer, as printed in a book etc.; a publishing house.
  3. A distinctive marking, symbol or logo.
    The shirts bore the company imprint on the right sleeve.
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[edit] Pronunciation 2

[edit] Verb

Infinitive
to imprint

Third person singular
imprints

Simple past
imprinted

Past participle
imprinted

Present participle
imprinting

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

  1. To leave a print, impression, image, etc.
    For a fee, they can imprint the envelopes with a monogram.
  2. To learn something indelibly at a particular stage of life, such as who one's mother is.
  3. To mark a gene as being from a particular parent so that only one of the two copies of the gene is expressed.
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