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# imprinting

«imprinting» in Mova's school dictionary: **the way some baby animals, like ducklings and goslings…** — 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 (imprinting — uncountable); verb form (imprinting — present participle of imprint)

### meaning for a pupil

1) (biology) Imprinting is the way some baby animals, like ducklings and goslings, learn to follow and trust the first moving thing they see after hatching, usually their mother. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/I/imprinting/#m1)

2) Imprinting is the act of pressing or printing a mark or design onto something. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/I/imprinting/#m2)

### sense in the lessons

In science lessons imprinting explains why ducklings line up behind their mother, and why a gosling that first sees a person may follow that person; the scientist Konrad Lorenz studied this with geese. In design lessons imprinting means printing a logo onto T-shirts or mugs. Phrases: «imprinting on», «the imprinting period».

### examples

- Ducklings follow their mother because of imprinting. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/I/imprinting/#x1)
- The goslings imprinted on the farmer and followed him everywhere. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/I/imprinting/#x2)
- Konrad Lorenz studied imprinting in geese. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/I/imprinting/#x3)
- Imprinting happens in the first hours after a chick hatches. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/I/imprinting/#x4)
- The factory is imprinting the school logo on our new sweatshirts. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/I/imprinting/#x5)
- Zookeepers wear puppets so the chicks do not start imprinting on people. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/I/imprinting/#x6)

### note

As a verb form: «The chick is imprinting on its mother». As a noun it is uncountable. Imprinting mostly happens soon after birth; it is not ordinary learning by practice.

### In the corpora

- [Ducklings follow the first moving thing they see after hatching, usually their mother; this is called imprinting.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/123-bugs-bunny-and-daffy-duck-real-rabbits-hares-and-ducks/15/)

### Trees and pragmatics

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