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# imprint

«imprint» in Mova's school dictionary: **a mark or shape pressed into a surface, like a footprint…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 1 sentence of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

noun (an imprint, imprints); verb (imprint, imprints, imprinted, imprinting)

### meaning for a pupil

1) An imprint is a mark or shape pressed into a surface, like a footprint in mud. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/I/imprint/#m1)

2) An imprint is a lasting effect that something leaves on a person or a place. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/I/imprint/#m2)

3) To imprint something is to press or print a mark onto it. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/I/imprint/#m3)

4) To imprint something on your mind is to fix it firmly in your memory. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/I/imprint/#m4)

5) (books) A publisher's imprint is the brand name it puts on a book. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/I/imprint/#m5)

### sense in the lessons

In science lessons fossils are often imprints of leaves, shells or footprints in rock. In stories an experience «leaves its imprint» on someone. In everyday life a coin or a stamp can be imprinted with a design. In biology, a young animal can imprint on its mother (see «imprinting»). Phrases: «leave an imprint», «imprinted on my memory», «an imprint of».

### examples

- The dinosaur left an imprint of its foot in the mud. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/I/imprint/#x1)
- The fossil is the imprint of a fern. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/I/imprint/#x2)
- The face of the queen is imprinted on the coin. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/I/imprint/#x3)
- That holiday left a happy imprint on all of us. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/I/imprint/#x4)
- The phone number is imprinted on my mind. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/I/imprint/#x5)
- Her hand left an imprint in the wet clay. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/I/imprint/#x6)
- This book is published under a children's imprint. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/I/imprint/#x7)
- The proprietor of the house stood bare-headed, and respectfully imprinted a kiss on the hand of the old woman. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/I/imprint/#x8)

### note

Stress differs: noun «IM-print», verb «im-PRINT». Past form «imprinted». Countable noun. Similar to «print» and «impression».

### In the corpora

- [Ye shall not make any cuttings in your flesh for the dead, nor imprint any marks upon you: I am the LORD.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/LEV.570/)

### Trees and pragmatics

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