imprint

UK /ˈɪm.pɹɪnt/ US /ˈɪm.pɹɪnt/
noun 3verb 3

Definitions

noun

1

An impression; the mark left behind by printing something.

The day left an imprint in my mind.

It was the moment everyone knew the Champions League trophy was on its way back to the Bernabéu and, once again, that the four-times Ballon d’Or winner had left his imprint on another final.

2

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.

3

A distinctive marking, symbol or logo.

The shirts bore the company imprint on the right sleeve.

verb

1

To leave a print, impression, image, etc.

For a fee, they can imprint the envelopes with a monogram.

For though a Child quickly aſſent to this Propoſition, That an Apple is not Fire; when, by familiar Acquaintance, he has got the Idea's of thoſe two different things diſtinctly imprinted on his Mind, and has learnt that the names Apple and Fire ſtand for them; yet it will be ſome years after, perhaps, before the ſame Child will aſſent to this Propoſition, That it is impoſſible for the ſame thing to be, and not to be.

2

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.

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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