imprint
pronunciation
How to pronounce imprint in British English:
UK [ɪmˈprɪnt]
How to pronounce imprint in American English:
US [ɪmˈprɪnt]
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- Noun:
- a distinctive influence
- a concavity in a surface produced by pressing
- 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
- an impression produced by pressure or printing
- a device produced by pressure on a surface
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- Verb:
- establish or impress firmly in the mind
- mark or stamp with or as if with pressure
Word Origin
- imprint (v.)
- late 14c., from Old French empreinter, from empreinte, noun use of fem. past participle of eimpreindre "to impress, imprint," from Vulgar Latin *impremere, from Latin imprimere "to impress, imprint" (see impress). As a noun from mid-15c.
Example
- 1. His time in the village left a lasting imprint .
- 2. To varying degrees , each president puts his own imprint on this celebrated workspace .
- 3. They must have come off inside the printer because now each page bore their imprint .
- 4. The ultimate imprint is separate from marvel 's other comics - where parker is alive and well .
- 5. Thanks to advances in neuroimaging we now have evidence that a baby 's first attachments imprint its brain .