IMPRINT

IPA (US):

 Dictionary entry overview: What does imprint mean? 

• IMPRINT (noun)
  The noun IMPRINT has 5 senses:

1. a distinctive influence

2. a concavity in a surface produced by pressing

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

5. a device produced by pressure on a surface

  Familiarity information: IMPRINT used as a noun is common.

• IMPRINT (verb)
  The verb IMPRINT has 2 senses:

1. establish or impress firmly in the mind

2. mark or stamp with or as if with pressure

  Familiarity information: IMPRINT used as a verb is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• IMPRINT (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A distinctive influence

Classified under:

Nouns denoting cognitive processes and contents

Context example:

English stills bears the imprint of the Norman invasion

Hypernyms ("imprint" is a kind of...):

influence (a cognitive factor that tends to have an effect on what you do)

Derivation:

imprint (establish or impress firmly in the mind)

Sense 2

Meaning:

A concavity in a surface produced by pressing

Classified under:

Nouns denoting two and three dimensional shapes

Synonyms:

depression; impression; imprint

Context example:

he left the impression of his fingers in the soft mud

Hypernyms ("imprint" is a kind of...):

concave shape; concavity; incurvation; incurvature (a shape that curves or bends inward)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "imprint"):

dimple (a small natural hollow in the cheek or chin)

channel; groove (a long narrow furrow cut either by a natural process (such as erosion) or by a tool (as e.g. a groove in a phonograph record))

dimple (any slight depression in a surface)

dip (a depression in an otherwise level surface)

dent; incision; prick; scratch; slit (a depression scratched or carved into a surface)

droop; sag (a shape that sags)

crease; crinkle; furrow; line; seam; wrinkle (a slight depression or fold in the smoothness of a surface)

chap; crack; cranny; crevice; fissure (a long narrow depression in a surface)

Sense 3

Meaning:

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

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Context example:

the book was published under a distinguished imprint

Hypernyms ("imprint" is a kind of...):

identification (evidence of identity; something that identifies a person or thing)

Sense 4

Meaning:

An impression produced by pressure or printing

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Synonyms:

embossment; imprint

Hypernyms ("imprint" is a kind of...):

impression; stamp (a symbol that is the result of printing or engraving)

Derivation:

imprint (mark or stamp with or as if with pressure)

Sense 5

Meaning:

A device produced by pressure on a surface

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Hypernyms ("imprint" is a kind of...):

device (an instrumentality invented for a particular purpose)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "imprint"):

impression ((dentistry) an imprint of the teeth and gums in wax or plaster)

• IMPRINT (verb)

Present simple: I / you / we / they imprint ... he / she / it imprints
Past simple: imprinted   
Past participle: imprinted   
-ing form: imprinting   

Sense 1

Meaning:

Establish or impress firmly in the mind

Classified under:

Verbs of political and social activities and events

Synonyms:

form; imprint

Context example:

We imprint our ideas onto our children

Hypernyms (to "imprint" is one way to...):

act upon; influence; work (have and exert influence or effect)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s something on somebody

Derivation:

imprint (a distinctive influence)

imprinting (a learning process in early life whereby species specific patterns of behavior are established)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Mark or stamp with or as if with pressure

Classified under:

Verbs of touching, hitting, tying, digging

Synonyms:

impress; imprint

Context example:

To make a batik, you impress a design with wax

Hypernyms (to "imprint" is one way to...):

change surface (undergo or cause to undergo a change in the surface)

"Imprint" entails doing...:

press (exert pressure or force to or upon)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "imprint"):

stamp (to mark, or produce an imprint in or on something)

boss; emboss; stamp (raise in a relief)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s something PP

Derivation:

imprint (an impression produced by pressure or printing)

 Context examples 

This allele, which encodes non-imprinted in Prader-Willi/Angelman syndrome region protein 2, may be involved in prostate cancer.

(NIPA2 wt Allele, NCI Thesaurus)

This allele, which encodes non-imprinted in Prader-Willi/Angelman syndrome region protein 1, may play a role in nervous system development.

(NIPA1 wt Allele, NCI Thesaurus)

This allele, which encodes CDNA FLJ32212 fis, clone PLACE6003399, weakly similar to SPIDROIN 1 protein, is an imprinted gene that is only expressed from the maternal allele.

(H19 wt Allele, NCI Thesaurus)

Non-imprinted in Prader-Willi/Angelman syndrome region protein 1 (329 aa, ~35 kDa) is encoded by the human NIPA1 gene.

(Non-Imprinted In Prader-Willi/Angelman Syndrome Region Protein 1, NCI Thesaurus)

Non-imprinted in Prader-Willi/Angelman syndrome region protein 2 (360 aa, ~39 kDa) is encoded by the human NIPA2 gene.

(Non-Imprinted In Prader-Willi/Angelman Syndrome Region Protein 2, NCI Thesaurus)

He led at Berks’s head, as he came rushing in, and missed him, receiving a severe body blow in return, which left the imprint of four angry knuckles above his ribs.

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Evil besides (which I must still believe to be the lethal side of man) had left on that body an imprint of deformity and decay.

(The Strange Case Of Dr. Jekyll And Mr. Hyde, by Robert Louis Stevenson)

This gene plays a role in embryonic development, imprinting, and X-chromosome inactivation.

(DNMT3B Gene, NCI Thesaurus)

This gene plays a role in genomic imprinting and may be involved in the negative regulation of cell growth.

(H19 Gene, NCI Thesaurus)

An enormous three-toed track was imprinted in the soft mud before us.

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)