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Imprint   /ɪmprˈɪnt/  /ˈɪmprɪnt/   Listen
Imprint

noun
1.
A distinctive influence.
2.
A concavity in a surface produced by pressing.  Synonyms: depression, impression.
3.
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.
4.
An impression produced by pressure or printing.  Synonym: embossment.
5.
A device produced by pressure on a surface.
verb
(past & past part. imptrinted; pres. part. imprinting)
1.
Establish or impress firmly in the mind.  Synonym: form.
2.
Mark or stamp with or as if with pressure.  Synonym: impress.



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"Imprint" Quotes from Famous Books



... his temple, from which a drop of black blood had oozed. A half-smile still lingered on his mouth; his face had scarcely changed colour, his attitude was natural, and yet the spectators felt that Death had set his imprint on that tranquil brow. Richard Luttrell's day was over; he had gone to a world where he might perhaps stand in need of that mercy which he had been only too ready to deny to others who ...
— Under False Pretences - A Novel • Adeline Sergeant
... inconsolable by reason of my unkindness; but I shall still remain inexorable. Her mother will then come and bring her daughter to me, as I am seated on a sofa. The daughter, with tears in her eyes, will fling herself at my feet, and beg me to receive her into my favour. Then will I, to imprint her with a thorough veneration for my person, draw up my legs, and spurn her from me with my foot in such a manner that she shall fall down several ...
— MacMillan's Reading Books - Book V • Anonymous
... doubt was in the business. His definite information to the police started us. If that car had wanted to escape notice, do you suppose it would have pulled up outside Reading, or at a cottage, where it obligingly left its imprint on the roadside? Why should the man explain the filling of a flask at a public house? Why should he talk of a runaway match to the woman at that cottage? He was laying a trail. Miss Wilkinson's handkerchief ...
— The Master Detective - Being Some Further Investigations of Christopher Quarles • Percy James Brebner
... without leaving any special trace, neither the mark of the nails nor the imprint of the fingers. Quite right. It is little Louise Roque, ...
— The works of Guy de Maupassant, Vol. 5 (of 8) - Une Vie and Other Stories • Guy de Maupassant 1850-1893
... chief was fifty-two years old—tall, erect and spare by natural habit, but worn thin to almost emaciation by mental and physical toil. Almost constant sickness and unremitting excitement of the last few months had left their imprint on face as well as figure. The features had sharpened and the lines had deepened and hardened; the thin lips had a firmer compression and the lower jaw—always firm and prominent—was closer pressed to its fellow. Mr. Davis had lost the sight of ...
— Four Years in Rebel Capitals - An Inside View of Life in the Southern Confederacy from Birth to Death • T. C. DeLeon


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