imprint

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈɪm.pɹɪnt/

• Audio (US)

  (file)

Noun

imprint (plural imprints)

1. An impression; the mark left behind by printing something.

   The day left an imprint in my mind.

   • 2017 June 3, Daniel Taylor, “Real Madrid win Champions League as Cristiano Ronaldo double defeats Juv”, in The Guardian (London)‎:

     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.
3. A distinctive marking, symbol or logo.

   The shirts bore the company imprint on the right sleeve.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɪmˈpɹɪnt/

• Audio (US)

  (file)

Verb

imprint (third-person singular simple present imprints, present participle imprinting, simple past and past participle imprinted)

1. To leave a print, impression, image, etc.

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

   • Prior

     And sees his num'rous herds imprint her sands.

   • Cowper

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

   • John Locke

     ideas of those two different things distinctly imprinted on his mind

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.