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# fingerprint

«fingerprint» in Mova's school dictionary: **The pattern of tiny lines on the tip of each finger, or…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 3 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

noun (fingerprint, fingerprints); verb (fingerprint, fingerprints, fingerprinted, fingerprinting)

### meaning for a pupil

1) The pattern of tiny lines on the tip of each finger, or the mark it leaves on a surface. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/fingerprint/#m1)

2) (verb) To take a record of someone's fingerprints, for example by the police. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/fingerprint/#m2)

3) A special mark that shows who made something or where it came from. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/fingerprint/#m3)

### sense in the lessons

In science lessons pupils study loops, whorls and arches and learn that every person's fingerprints are different. In detective stories fingerprints help to catch a thief. Phones can unlock with a fingerprint. Phrases: leave fingerprints, take fingerprints, fingerprint scanner, dust for fingerprints.

### examples

- The detective found fingerprints on the window. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/fingerprint/#x1)
- No two people have the same fingerprints, not even twins. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/fingerprint/#x2)
- I unlock my mum's tablet with my fingerprint. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/fingerprint/#x3)
- Press your finger on the ink pad to make a fingerprint. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/fingerprint/#x4)
- The police fingerprinted the suspect. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/fingerprint/#x5)
- There are sticky fingerprints all over the fridge door! [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/fingerprint/#x6)

### note

Compound noun: finger + print. Identical twins share DNA but still have different fingerprints. Fingerprints form before birth and do not change as you grow, only get bigger.

### In the corpora

- [A spider monkey's tail grips a branch like a fifth hand, with ridged bare skin on the tip like a fingerprint.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/156-the-amazon-canopy/12/)
- [Koalas have fingerprints so like ours that they could confuse a detective.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/354-skin-fingerprints-scabs-scars-bruises-and-blisters/8/)
- [Some shops already test paying with your face or fingerprint.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/money/5-money-s-history-shells-coins-paper-cards-phones/14/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «fingerprint» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/fingerprint/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.