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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
imprint
I.noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ VERB
bear
▪ The major collective syntheses were invariably supervised by the most senior figures in the profession and bear the imprint of authority.
▪ This is play at its best because it bears the imprint of the child.
▪ Each phase is the outcome of the one before, whilst bearing the chronic imprint of an interior design.
▪ All the family stories Jane Gilbert tells bear the imprint of that part of the country.
▪ Nor do I mean that it bears the imprint of the time when it arose.
leave
▪ For black people, similarly, colonialism has left its imprint.
▪ She had left her imprint upon them, and now her mind overlapped with his whenever he wore the sacred lenses.
▪ The Minneapolis Marvel has left an indelible imprint on her.
▪ The water, as it lands on the objects, leaves the imprint of the thought again in the form of energy.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ This dictionary is published under the Longman imprint.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ A third saguaro lies full-length in the dirt, one end squashed flat and stamped with the imprint of tire treads.
▪ At its summit is a boulder with a hollow resembling the imprint of a man's foot.
▪ Each phase is the outcome of the one before, whilst bearing the chronic imprint of an interior design.
▪ In the gardens the grass glistened with dew, which left imprints where the soldiers' feet had passed.
▪ Its vistas leave a warm and timeless imprint on even the most jaded memory.
▪ Proprietors do appoint editors and chief-executives; they decide budgets and manning levels and they put their imprint on the total organizations.
▪ The major collective syntheses were invariably supervised by the most senior figures in the profession and bear the imprint of authority.
▪ There are more than 2,500 volumes of pre-1800 imprint, and an extensive assemblage of maps, illustrations and ephemera.
II.verb
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
brain
▪ It's one of those rare books of comic genius that imprints itself on the brain and can never afterwards be eradicated.
▪ Your nausea is imprinted on my brain.
▪ These are all negative statements that you have imprinted on to your brain.
mind
▪ Two events in particular were graphically imprinted on his mind.
▪ The picture of Joe's doughy white body seemed to be imprinted on his mind.
▪ The final image he imprinted on Greg's mind was a handsome wreck, a St Pancras Station of a man.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Duncan read through the list, imprinting the information into his memory.
▪ He glanced down the codings listed on the last of the semi-opaque sheets and imprinted his authorisation.
▪ Human beings appear to need to imprint themselves on the land.
▪ Sjoo and Mor tell us that the ancient Arabs imprinted vulvas on its surface.
▪ The chick will not imprint on objects seen after that time.
▪ The final image he imprinted on Greg's mind was a handsome wreck, a St Pancras Station of a man.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Imprint

Imprint \Im"print\, n. [Cf. F. empreinte impress, stamp. See Imprint, v. t.] Whatever is impressed or imprinted; the impress or mark left by something; specifically, the name of the printer or publisher (usually) with the time and place of issue, in the title-page of a book, or on any printed sheet. ``That imprint of their hands.''
--Buckle.

Imprint

Imprint \Im*print"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Imptrinted; p. pr. & vb. n. Imprinting.] [OE. emprenten, F. empreint, p. p. of empreindre to imprint, fr. L. imprimere to impres, imprint. See 1st In-, Print, and cf. Impress.]

  1. To impress; to mark by pressure; to indent; to stamp.

    And sees his num'rous herds imprint her sands.
    --Prior.

  2. To stamp or mark, as letters on paper, by means of type, plates, stamps, or the like; to print the mark (figures, letters, etc., upon something).

    Nature imprints upon whate'er we see, That has a heart and life in it, ``Be free.''
    --Cowper.

  3. To fix indelibly or permanently, as in the mind or memory; to impress.

    Ideas of those two different things distinctly imprinted on his mind.
    --Locke.

  4. (Ethology) To create or acquire (a behavioral pattern) by the process of imprinting.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
imprint

late 14c., from Old French empreinter, from empreinte, noun use of fem. past participle of eimpreindre "to impress, imprint," from Vulgar Latin *impremere, from Latin imprimere "to impress, imprint" (see impress). As a noun from mid-15c.

Wiktionary
imprint

Etymology 1 n. 1 An impression; the mark left behind by printing something. 2 The name and details of a publisher or printer, as printed in a book etc.; a publishing house. 3 A distinctive marking, symbol or logo. Etymology 2

vb. 1 To leave a print, impression, image, etc. 2 To learn something indelibly at a particular stage of life, such as who one's parents are. 3 To mark a gene as being from a particular parent so that only one of the two copies of the gene is expressed.

WordNet
imprint
  1. n. 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" [syn: 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; "the book was publsihed under a distinguished imprint"

  4. an impression produced by pressure or printing [syn: embossment]

  5. a device produced by pressure on a surface

  6. v. establish or impress firmly in the mind; "We imprint our ideas onto our children" [syn: form]

  7. mark or stamp with or as if with pressure; "To make a batik, you impress a design with wax" [syn: impress]

Wikipedia
Imprint (trade name)

An imprint of a publisher is a trade name under which a work is published. A single publishing company may have multiple imprints, with the different imprints often used by the publisher to market works to different demographic consumer segments.

Imprint (Masters of Horror)

Imprint is the thirteenth episode of the first season of Masters of Horror. Directed by Takashi Miike, the episode was scheduled to premiere on January 27, 2006 -- but was shelved by Showtime over concerns about its extremely graphic and disturbing content. It was later released to DVD on September 26, 2006.

Imprint (TV series)

Imprint was a Canadian television series that aired on TVOntario, BookTelevision, Knowledge and, for one season, on PBS.

Inspired by Bernard Pivot's French literary programme Apostrophes, the series featured interviews with prize-winning authors and journalists, and examined the latest trends in books and contemporary issues in literature. Among the guests featured were Harry Allen, Margaret Atwood, Amiri Baraka, Julian Barnes, Leonard Cohen, David Cronenberg, John Irving, Ray Robertson, Salman Rushdie, and Robert J. Sawyer.

Daniel Richler hosted the series from 1988 until well into the 1990s, and was succeeded by Mary Hynes. The program was last hosted by Tina Srebotnjak.

TVOntario, the program's producer, cancelled the series in early 2005.

Category:TVOntario shows Category:Canadian television talk shows

Imprint (Vision of Disorder album)

Imprint is the second album by metalcore, hardcore band Vision of Disorder, released on July 14, 1998. It was their last album released while signed to Roadrunner Records; it remains their best-selling album to date. Greg Prato of Allmusic said of the album, "Undoubtedly the best heavy album of 1998" in his review for the prestigious collective. The album is also known for its popular song "By the River", in which singer Tim Williams has a duet with Pantera vocalist Phil Anselmo.

Imprint

Imprint or imprinting may refer to:

  • An impression; the mark left behind by printing something
  • Imprint Records, an American country music record label
  • Imprint (newspaper), a student newspaper of the University of Waterloo, in Ontario, Canada
  • Imprint (TV series), a Canadian television series
  • Imprint (Vision of Disorder album), 1998
  • Imprint (John Patitucci album)
  • "Imprint" (Masters of Horror), the thirteenth episode of the first season of Masters of Horror
  • The Imprint (printing trade periodical), printed in London in 9 issues in 1913
  • Imprint (typeface), a typeface commissioned from Monotype by the London publishers of The Imprint
  • Impressum, frequently seen translated to "imprint" on English versions of German websites
  • Imprint (film), a 2007 independent drama/thriller film
  • Imprint (sculpture), a glass sculpture made by Luciano Fabro
  • IMPRINT (Improved Performance Research Integration Tool), a human performance modeling tool based on MANPRINT, developed by the United States Army
  • Imprinting (psychology), in psychology and ethology
  • Imprinting (organizational theory), in organizational theory and organizational behavior
  • Genomic imprinting (genetic imprinting), a mechanism of regulating gene expression
  • Metabolic imprinting, the phenomenon by which the metabolism of the developing fetus may be "programmed" during gestation
  • Molecular imprinting, in polymer chemistry
Imprint (film)

Imprint is a 2007 independent drama/ thriller film co-written and directed by Michael Linn and produced by Chris Eyre.

Imprint (sculpture)

Imprint (Italian Impronta) was an Arte Povera glass sculpture created by Luciano Fabro in 1964. It was an opaque 74.5 cm diameter, 8mm thick glass disc with an image of the Earth at the centre. Fabro claimed the sculpture represented "the longevity of the world."

On September 7, 2013, the piece was accidentally knocked over and smashed by a journalist from Radiotelevisione svizzera, while it was on display at the Meno Uno gallery in Lugano, Switzerland. The journalist was reported to have been intoxicated.

Imprint (typeface)

Imprint is a serif typeface created by Monotype, commonly used for body text. Originally called Imprint Old Face, it is a sturdy design with a large x-height, Caslon-like but with more regularity in its letterforms. It was commissioned by the London publishers of The Imprint, a short-lived printing trade periodical published during 1913.

Imprint has remained popular and is sold digitally by Monotype. A "shadowed" or inline version, with a cut taken out of the letters, has been widely released with Microsoft software, and is often used, especially in desktop publishing, for mastheads and titles.

Usage examples of "imprint".

This is done not only in an attempt to understand their motivation more deeply than pure public utterance allows, but also because so many of them, often to their ruin, saw their own lives as a seamless whole, their calendar of birth, love, ambition and death imprinted on the almanac of great events.

Betty and Ian Ballantine that Judy-Lynn and Lester had such a strong backlist foundation on which to build their new imprint.

Delphaeic spell that would normally imprint your features on her own face, but just as she releases her spell, I release a Styric one that deflects the spell to Berit instead.

Belmont embraced the old man on the cheek, stooped to imprint a kiss on the forehead of the sleeping child, rushed out of the cabin, threw himself into his cariole and drove away.

Every protective instinct rose up, every possessive Carpathian trait existing in him, his imprinted instincts all told him she was there.

The imprint of his head dented the pillow beside her, but of Jack Chiltern there was no sign.

He reached into his tunic and pulled out a message from Katala, bearing a ducal imprint and a countersignature from the Captain of the Royal Krondorian Guard.

Rhodes was maskless, wearing an airy-looking white cotton djellaba imprinted with bold Egyptian motifs.

He knew well, however, that it was not an apparition, that the dead do not come back, and that his sick soul, his soul possessed by one thought alone, by an indelible remembrance, was the only cause of his torture, was what brought the dead girl back to life and raised her form before his eyes, on which it was ineffaceably imprinted.

This imprint, as a reason for Kanuck acquiescence in the great waterway, proceeded to show how its effect would be to strengthen Canada in case of war between England and the United States.

Sometimes you put a little bit of talcum powder on the lock, then press Plasticine into the keyway, pull it out and put it in a secure container so you can take imprints later.

She awakened on the verge of death every time with the image of their cruel eyes imprinted on her memory, their mocking laughter ringing in her ears: Earl Millhouse, Coot Demarest, and their comrades, Zachariah Hudson, Arthur Bertram, and J.

In the pommel was imprinted the insignia of the Foederal Oecumenical Commonwealth: a sword bound into its sheath by the windings of an olive wreath.

As more untailored emotions regained ascendancy over those he had imprinted on her, the readier she would be to report everything she could recall to her superiors.

But as regards the second, the knowledge imprinted on the soul of Christ is less than the angelic knowledge, in the manner of knowing that is natural to the human soul, i.