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

1. An impression produced by pressure or printing
   "The seal left a clear imprint on the wax";
   - embossment
    
2. A device produced by pressure on a surface
   "The detective found a clear imprint of the suspect's shoe in the mud"
    
3. A concavity in a surface produced by pressing
   "he left the imprint of his fingers in the soft mud";
   - depression, impression
    
4. 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"
    
5. A distinctive influence
   "English stills bears the imprint of the Norman invasion"

Derived forms: imprinted, imprinting, imprints

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

Encyclopedia: Imprint