imprint

Plural: imprints

Noun

• a distinctive influence
  • "English stills bears the imprint of the Norman invasion"
• 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
  • "the book was published under a distinguished imprint"
• an impression produced by pressure or printing
• a device produced by pressure on a surface
• An impression; the mark left behind by printing something.
• The name and details of a publisher or printer, as printed in a book etc.; a publishing house.
• A distinctive marking, symbol or logo.

Verb

Verb Forms: imprinted, imprinting, imprints

• To produce a mark or design by pressure; to fix firmly.
• establish or impress firmly in the mind
  • "We imprint our ideas onto our children"
• mark or stamp with or as if with pressure
• To leave a print, impression, image, etc.
• To learn something indelibly at a particular stage of life, such as who one's parents are.
• To mark a gene as being from a particular parent so that only one of the two copies of the gene is expressed.

Examples

• For a fee, they can imprint the envelopes with a monogram.
• The day left an imprint in my mind.
• The rare ’Z’ tile left an indelible imprint on the board, clinching his victory.
• The shirts bore the company imprint on the right sleeve.

Synonyms

depression, embossment, form, impress, impression

Anagrams of imprint