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1. Establish or impress firmly in the mind
   "We imprint our ideas onto our children"
   - form
    
2. Mark or stamp with or as if with pressure
   "To make a batik, you imprint a design with wax"
   - impress

1. A distinctive influence
   "English stills bears the imprint of the Norman invasion"
    
2. A concavity in a surface produced by pressing
   "he left the imprint of his fingers in the soft mud"
   - 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 published under a distinguished imprint"
    
4. An impression produced by pressure or printing
   - embossment
    
5. A device produced by pressure on a surface

Derived forms: imprinted, imprinting, imprints

See also: imprinting

Type of: act upon, change surface, concave shape, concavity, device, identification, impression, incurvation, incurvature, influence, stamp, work

Encyclopedia: Imprint