Imprint

Definition: Imprint

Imprint

Noun

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

2. A concavity in a surface produced by pressing; "he left the impression of his fingers in the soft mud".

3. An impression produced by pressure or printing.

4. A device produced by pressure on a surface.

Verb

1. Establish or impress firmly in the mind; "We imprint our ideas onto our children".

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

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "imprint" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1321. (references)

Building & Civil Engineering

Computing

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Synonyms: Imprint

Indication

Put an indication, put a mark; Noun: note, mark, stamp, earmark; blaze; label, ticket, docket; dot, spot, score, dash, trace, chalk; print; imprint, impress; engrave, stereotype.

Print; imprint, impress, impression.

Memory

Commit to memory, memorize; con over, con; fix in the memory, rivet in the memory, imprint in the memory, impress in the memory, stamp in the memory, grave in the memory, engrave in the memory, store in the memory, treasure up in the memory, bottle up in the memory, embalm in the memory, enshrine in the memory; load the memory with, store the memory with, stuff the memory with, burden the memory with.

Publication

The Press, public press, newspaper, journal, gazette, daily; telegraphy; publisher; Verb: imprint.

Crosswords: Imprint

Imprint (2002)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Books

• Living Letters of the Law: Ideas of the Jew in Medieval Christianity (The S. Mark Taper Foundation Imprint in Jewish Studies) (reference)

• Man's Imprint from the Past: Readings in the Methods of Archaeology. (reference)

• The Imprint of Gender: Authorship and Publication in the English Renaissance (reference)

  (more book examples)

Music

• The Coma Imprint (reference)

  (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)

Consumer Goods

• Zojirushi NSRNC-18FC Automatic Rice Cooker and Warmer with Floral Imprint (reference)

  (more baby examples; more wireless phone examples; more garden examples; more kitchen examples; more tool examples)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Business

Marco Polo Press, the imprint for travel books, has translated its complete series into Chinese for local readers. (references)

Economic History

Belgium

Consequently, Belgium is one of Europe's true melting pots with Celtic, Roman, Germanic, French, Dutch, Spanish, and Austrian cultures having made an imprint. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

Expressions using "imprint": cultural imprint ♦ printer's imprint ♦ publisher's imprint ♦ raindrop imprint. Additional references.

Albanian

vulos (glue up, impress, seal, stamp), stampoj (die, emboss, impress, mint, print, stamp), ngulit (affix, embed, implant, impress, inculcate), ngulis (affix, embed, implant, impress, inculcate). (various references)

Arabic 

‏ختم (cachet, chop, close, conclude, frank, impress, impression, round off, seal, seal ring, sealing, set one's hand to, sign off, signet, stamp, stamp about, stamping, subscribe, wind up, wrap up), ‏السمة, ‏الأثر المميز, ‏دمغة الناشر, ‏دمغة (batch, cachet, impress, stamp), ‏دمغ (hallmark, impress, impression, stamp, stamping), ‏بصمة (fingerprint, impress, mark, print, squeeze). (various references)

Bulgarian 

щампосвам (impress, incuse, print, stamp), втълпявам (impress, instill, rub in), внушавам (carry, implant, inspire, prompt, put an idea into smb.'s head, suggest), отпечатък (impress, impression, indent, print, print off, pull, reprint, seal, squeeze, stamp, track, type), отпечатвам (impress, open, print, pull, roll off, run, slur, stamp, strike off, throw off), запечатвам в съзнанието, печатам (impress, print, run). (various references)

Chinese 

版本记录. (various references)

Czech

impresum, vytisknout (print), vyrazit (batter, break down, get off, set off, set out, smash down, smash in, spurt, stamp out, start, storm), vštípit (engrave, implant, inculcate, instill, plant), stopa (evidence, foot, footstep, lead, Mark, print, rut, scent, trace, track, trail, vestige), otisknout (carry, impress, print), otisk (impression, print, squeeze, type), obtisk (transfer). (various references)

Danish

Impressum (biblio), trykke (oppress, press, print, squeeze), tryk (pressure, print), prægning (coining, embossed finish, Embossing, impregnation, imprinting, molding, moulding, telegony), aftrykke (impress, machine, print, pull, stamp, work off). (various references)

Dutch

afdruk (copy, print, trace, track). (various references)

Esperanto

premsigno (print), depresaĵo (print). (various references)

Farsi 

مهرزدن (Frank, Impress, Stamp), منقوش کردن (Characterize, Engrave, Stamp), نشاندن (Embed, Enchase, Infix, Seat, Set, Stud), گذاردن (Invest, Lay, Pose, Repose, Set), زدن (Abaction, Amputate, Attain, Beat, Bop, Bruise, Clout, Cut, Haze, Inject, Koran, Lam, Light, Lodge, Mallet, Nail, Play, Poke, Pop, Shoot, Slap, Slat, Smite, Snip, Strike, Stroke, Whack). (various references)

Finnish

painautuma (dinge), juurruttaa (impress, root), julkaisutiedot (biblio), jälki (footprint, impression, mark, trace, track). (various references)

French

impression (impression), empreinte (impression). (various references)

Frisian

ôfprintsel (copy, print). (various references)

German

impressum (masthead), druckvermerk (biblio, finished), abdruck (cast, copy, impression, Mold, molding, print, printed matter, reprint, stamp). (various references)

Greek 

εντυπώνω (impress, print, stamp), αποτύπωμα (offset, print), αποτυπώνω (impress, print). (various references)

Hebrew 

לחרות (carve, chase, chisel, engrave, incise, inscribe, print), חותם (die, seal, signet, stamp), חריתה (engraving, incision, inscription), חרותת (inscription). (various references)

Hungarian

lenyomat (cast, impression, Mold, mould, proof, squeezing), könyvkiadó neve, impresszum (impress, imprimatur), cégjelzés (letterhead). (various references)

Indonesian

terbitan (edition). (various references)

Italian

stampare (impress, machine, print, print out, publish), imprimere (be impressed, engrain, engrave, give, impart, impress, incuse, print), impressione (feeling, hunch, impact, impress, impression, sensation). (various references)

Manx

ynnyd cowrey (impress, impression), cur cowrey er (brand, mark). (various references)

Norwegian

innprente, prege (impress), preg (impress), merke (badge, detect, ensign), avtrykk (impress, impression). (various references)

Pig Latin

imprintay.(various references)

Portuguese

imprimir em relevo (impress, stamp), imprimir (engraft, impress, ingraft, print, print out, stamp, strike off), impress�o (hold, impress, impression), impressão (effect, feeling, impression, rubber stamp, sensation, stamp, thrill), zona da publicação (biblio), sinal (alarm, beck, character, denotation, denotement, deposit, gesture, guide, handsel, hansel, impress, index, indication, mark, note, pledge, rubber stamp, scar, seal, sign, signature, spot, stamp, symptom, tincture, token, trace, track, vestige), rubrica (caption, check, column, countersign, header, item, raddle, reddle, rubric, ruddle, signature), relevar (impress, stamp), pé-de-imprensa (biblio), nome (appellation, appellative, denomination, fame, name, noun, substantive), marca (brand, character, guide-mark, hallmark, impress, impression, label, mark, mintage, note, pock-mark, rubber stamp, score, seal, spot, stamp, token, trace, trait), gravar (carve, character, chase, chip, chisel, cut, enchase, engrain, grave, impress, incise, infix, ingraft, inscribe, print, record, score, scrimshaw, stamp), cunho (cachet, cleat, hallmark, impress, mintage, nature, rubber stamp, saddle, seal, stamp), carimbo (impress, postmark, rubber stamp, seal, stamp), carimbar (postmark, stamp). (various references)

Romanian

imprima (enface, give, impress, ingrain, print, record, register, stamp, strike, transmit). (various references)

Russian 

отпечатывать отпечаток, отпечатывать (impress), запечатлевать (chase, engrave, print), печатать (list, print, printed and bound, type, type-write, typewrote). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

utisnuti (impress, press in), utisak (afterimage, impression, notion), urezati (carve, engrave, inscribe, intaglio, nick), pritiskivati, otisak (impress, impression, incuse, print, proof), obeležje (characteristic, impress, mark), obeležiti (graduate, mark, mark off, mark out, note, spot, tick), štampa (press, print). (various references)

Spanish

imprimir (carry, impress, output, print, run off), impresión (draft, effect, impress, impression, press, presswork, print, printing, printout, trace, track), estampar (block, engrave, impress, pattern, place, plant, press, print, stamp, swage, tool). (various references)

Swedish

prägel (air, cachet, hue, impress, impression, incuse, seal, stamp, tone, touch), intryck (dint, impact, impression, indentation), avtryck (impression, print, transfer). (various references)

Turkish

izlenim (effect, feeling, impression, odor, odour, ring, stamp), intiba (impression), marka (brand, check, chip, chop, identification mark, initials, jetton, Mark, stamp, title, token, trademark), kondurmak, kitapta baskı özelliklerini belirten yazı, etkilemek (affect, cast a spell on, catch up, concern, dictate, enamor, enamour, enthral, enthrall, glamor, glamour, grip, impinge, impress, influence, inthral, lead, militate, operate, prepossess, reach, smite, spell, spellbind, sway, thrill, touch, turn, turn smb.'s head), etki (action, bearing, clout, drag, drift, effect, effectiveness, efficacy, efficiency, force, forcefulness, hold, impact, impress, impression, incidence, influence, interest, jolt, leaven, penetration, point, potency, pull, purchase, reflection, reflexion, ring, sound, stamp, sway, virtue, weight), damga (brand, cachet, cancellation, earmark, impress, impression, Mark, marker, print, seal, signature, stamp, stigma), basmak (affix, attack suddenly, break into, catch, come on, come upon, flood, flow, foray, impress, irrupt, jam, letter, press, print, publish, raid, sink, spit, spit out, stamp, stencil, step, step on, stomp, strike, strike off, transfer, tread, tread on, utter, weigh), baskı ve yayınevi özelliklerini basmak. (various references)

Ukrainian

слід (behove, footmark, footprint, footstep, ought, print, relic, remnant, scent, should, spoor, trace, track, trail, tread, wake), штемпелювати (postmark, stamp), штамп (chop, clichй, die, notehead, print, punch, stamp, type), відбиток (cachet, impress, impression, indenture, mintage, overprint, press, pressure, print, seal, trace, track), відбивати (beat, beat back, fend off, image, mirror, reflect, repulse, reverberate, shed). (various references)

Vietnamese 

vết in (impression), ngày xuất bản, dấu vết (hint, vestige). (various references)

Welsh

argraff (impression, print). (various references)

Derivations

Words beginning with "imprint": imprinted, imprinter, imprinters, imprinting, imprintings, imprints. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Imprint" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: impit, impring, inprint, Miniprint. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-2 letters: primi, print.

-3 letters: impi, inti, mini, mint, miri, pint, pirn, prim, tipi, trim, trip.

-4 letters: imp, mir, nim, nip, nit, pin, pit, rim, rin, rip, tin, tip.

-5 letters: in, it, mi, pi, ti.

+1 letter: imprints, misprint.

+2 letters: imparting, importing, imprinted, imprinter, misprints.

+3 letters: impairment, imprinters, imprinting, misparting, misprinted, permitting, provitamin, puritanism, springtime, triumphing.

+4 letters: aminopterin, impairments, impartation, imperilment, impertinent, impetrating, impetration, importation, importuning, importunity, imprecating, imprecation, imprintings, improvident, misprinting, monitorship, patrimonial, patrimonies, planimetric, positronium, prelimiting, premonition, premunition, pretrimming, printmaking, provitamins, puritanisms, reimporting, springtimes, temporising, temporizing.

+5 letters: aminopterins, anisotropism, distempering, impartations, impercipient, imperfection, imperilments, impertinence, impertinency, impetrations, importancies, importations, imprecations, impregnating, impregnation, imprisonment, meanspirited, mifepristone, minicomputer, misanthropic, misinterpret, misreporting, monitorships, operationism, outpromising, palindromist, positroniums, preadmitting, premigration, premonitions, premunitions, primogenitor, printmakings, protactinium, reimplanting, reimposition, sempiternity, trampolining, trampolinist, xiphisternum.