Print vs. Imprint — What's the Difference?
Difference Between Print and Imprint
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Produce (books, newspapers, etc.), especially in large quantities, by a mechanical process involving the transfer of text or designs to paper
A thousand copies of the book were printed
Imprint
To produce (a mark or pattern) on a surface by pressure.
Write (text) clearly without joining the letters together
Print your name and address on the back of the cheque
Imprint
To produce a mark on (a surface) by pressure.
Mark (a surface, typically a fabric or garment) with a coloured design or pattern
A delicate fabric printed with roses
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Imprint
To impart a strong or vivid impression of
"We imprint our own ideas onto acts" (Ellen Goodman).
The text appearing in a book, newspaper, or other printed publication, especially with reference to its size, form, or style
Bold print
She forced herself to concentrate on the tiny print
Imprint
To fix firmly, as in the mind
He tried to imprint the telephone number in his memory.
An indentation or mark made on a surface or soft substance
There were paw prints everywhere
Imprint
To cause (a very young animal) to recognize and be attracted to another animal or to an object identified as the parent. Often used with on.
A picture or design printed from a block or plate or copied from a painting by photography
The walls were hung with sporting prints
Imprint
To modify (a gene) chemically, as by DNA methylation, affecting the gene's expression in offspring.
A piece of fabric or clothing with a coloured pattern or design printed on it
Light summer prints
A floral print dress
Imprint
To become imprinted on another animal or on an object identified as the parent. Used of newborn or very young animals. Often used with on
Lab animals that imprint on researchers.
A mark or impression made in or on a surface by pressure
The print of footsteps in the sand.
Imprint
A mark or pattern produced by imprinting; an impression.
A fingerprint.
Imprint
A distinguishing influence or effect
Spanish architecture that shows the imprint of Islamic rule.
A device or implement, such as a stamp, die, or seal, used to press markings onto or into a surface
Fancy letters made by hand-carved prints.
Imprint
A chemical modification of a gene affecting the gene's expression in offspring.
Something formed or marked by such a device.
Imprint
A publisher's name, often with the date, address, and edition, printed at the bottom of a title page of a publication.
Text, lettering, or other marks produced in ink from type as by a printing press or from digital fonts by an electronic printer
Needed glasses to read the print.
Imprint
A publishing business with a unique name, usually owned by a larger publishing firm
Started a paperback imprint for young-adult novels.
Printed state or form
A short story that never got into print.
Imprint
An impression; the mark left behind by printing something.
The day left an imprint in my mind.
A printed publication or edition of a text; a printing
The first print of that book has sold out.
Imprint
The name and details of a publisher or printer, as printed in a book etc.; a publishing house.
A design or picture transferred from an engraved plate, wood block, lithographic stone, or other medium
Had prints of flowers hanging on the walls.
Imprint
A distinctive marking, symbol or logo.
The shirts bore the company imprint on the right sleeve.
A photographic image transferred to paper or a similar surface.
Imprint
To leave a print, impression, image, etc.
For a fee, they can imprint the envelopes with a monogram.
A copy of a movie made on film or in a high resolution digital format, as for public exhibition.
Imprint
To learn something indelibly at a particular stage of life, such as who one's parents are.
A fabric or garment with a dyed pattern that has been pressed onto it, usually by engraved rollers.
Imprint
To mark a gene as being from a particular parent so that only one of the two copies of the gene is expressed.
The pattern itself
A blouse with a paisley print.
Imprint
To impress; to mark by pressure; to indent; to stamp.
And sees his num'rous herds imprint her sands.
To press (a mark or design, for example) onto or into a surface
Tracks that were printed in the snow.
Imprint
To stamp or mark, as letters on paper, by means of type, plates, stamps, or the like; to print the mark (figures, letters, etc., upon something).
Nature imprints upon whate'er we see,That has a heart and life in it, "Be free."
To make an impression on or in (a surface) with a device such as a stamp, seal, or die.
Imprint
To fix indelibly or permanently, as in the mind or memory; to impress.
Ideas of those two different things distinctly imprinted on his mind.
To press (something, such as a stamp) onto or into a surface to leave a marking.
Imprint
To create or acquire (a behavioral pattern) by the process of imprinting.
To produce by means of pressed type, an electronic printer, or similar means, on a paper surface
Printed more copies of the ad.
Imprint
Whatever is impressed or imprinted; the impress or mark left by something; specifically, the name of the printer or publisher (usually) with the time and place of issue, in the title-page of a book, or on any printed sheet.
To offer in printed form; publish
The publisher collected the essays and printed them as a book.
Imprint
A distinctive influence;
English stills bears the imprint of the Norman invasion
To reproduce (a digital document or image) on a paper surface
Printed the email.
Imprint
A concavity in a surface produced by pressing;
He left the impression of his fingers in the soft mud
To convert (a digital document) into a file format designed for publication.
Imprint
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 publsihed under a distinguished imprint
To write (something) in characters similar to those commonly used in print.
Imprint
An impression produced by pressure or printing
To impress firmly in the mind or memory
An experience that will be printed in our hearts forever.
Imprint
A device produced by pressure on a surface
To produce a photographic image from (a negative, for example) by passing light through film onto a photosensitive surface, especially sensitized paper.
Imprint
Establish or impress firmly in the mind;
We imprint our ideas onto our children
To produce (an electronic component) by mechanically transferring a circuit or circuit pattern onto a nonconductive surface.
Imprint
Mark or stamp with or as if with pressure;
To make a batik, you impress a design with wax
To fabricate (an object) by means of a 3D printer.
To work as a printer.
To produce something in printed form by means of a printing press or other reproduction process.
To write characters similar to those commonly used in print.
To produce or receive an impression, marking, or image
The negative printed poorly.
Published or reproduced by printing, especially in contrast to electronic publication
A print newsletter.
Relating to or involved in media based on printing, especially newspapers and magazines
A print journalist.
Of, relating to, or writing for printed publications.
A print edition of a book
(transitive) To produce one or more copies of a text or image on a surface, especially by machine; often used with out or off: print out, print off.
Print the draft double-spaced so we can mark changes between the lines.
To produce a microchip (an integrated circuit) in a process resembling the printing of an image.
The circuitry is printed onto the semiconductor surface.
(ambitransitive) To write very clearly, especially, to write without connecting the letters as in cursive.
Print your name here and sign below.
I'm only in grade 2, so I only know how to print.
(ambitransitive) To publish in a book, newspaper, etc.
How could they print an unfounded rumour like that?
(transitive) To stamp or impress (something) with coloured figures or patterns.
To print calico
(transitive) To fix or impress, as a stamp, mark, character, idea, etc., into or upon something.
(transitive) To stamp something in or upon; to make an impression or mark upon by pressure, or as by pressure.
To display a string on the terminal.
To produce an observable value.
On March 16, 2020, the S&P printed at 2,386.13, one of the worst drops in history.
(transitive) To fingerprint (a person).
(uncountable) Books and other material created by printing presses, considered collectively or as a medium.
Three citations are required for each meaning, including one in print.
TV and the Internet haven't killed print.
(uncountable) Clear handwriting, especially, writing without connected letters as in cursive.
Write in print using block letters.
(uncountable) The letters forming the text of a document.
The print is too small for me to read.
(countable) A newspaper.
A visible impression on a surface.
Using a crayon, the girl made a print of the leaf under the page.
A fingerprint.
Did the police find any prints at the scene?
A footprint.
(visual art) A picture that was created in multiple copies by printing.
(photography) A photograph that has been printed onto paper from the negative.
(film) A copy of a film that can be projected.
Cloth that has had a pattern of dye printed onto it.
(architecture) A plaster cast in bas relief.
To fix or impress, as a stamp, mark, character, idea, etc., into or upon something.
A look will print a thought that never may remove.
Upon his breastplate he beholds a dint,Which in that field young Edward's sword did print.
Perhaps some footsteps printed in the clay.
To stamp something in or upon; to make an impression or mark upon by pressure, or as by pressure.
Forth on his fiery steed betimes he rode,That scarcely prints the turf on which he trod.
To strike off an impression or impressions of, from type, or from stereotype, electrotype, or engraved plates, or the like; in a wider sense, to do the typesetting, presswork, etc., of (a book or other publication); as, to print books, newspapers, pictures; to print an edition of a book.
To stamp or impress with colored figures or patterns; as, to print calico.
To take (a copy, a positive picture, etc.), from a negative, a transparent drawing, or the like, by the action of light upon a sensitized surface.
To use or practice the art of typography; to take impressions of letters, figures, or electrotypes, engraved plates, or the like.
To publish a book or an article.
From the moment he prints, he must except to hear no more truth.
A mark made by impression; a line, character, figure, or indentation, made by the pressure of one thing on another; as, the print of teeth or nails in flesh; the print of the foot in sand or snow.
Where print of human feet was never seen.
A stamp or die for molding or impressing an ornamental design upon an object; as, a butter print.
That which receives an impression, as from a stamp or mold; as, a print of butter.
Printed letters; the impression taken from type, as to excellence, form, size, etc.; as, small print; large print; this line is in print.
That which is produced by printing.
A core print. See under Core.
The result of the printing process;
I want to see it in black and white
A picture or design printed from an engraving
A visible indication made on a surface;
Some previous reader had covered the pages with dozens of marks
Paw prints were everywhere
A copy of a movie on film (especially a particular version of it)
A fabric with a dyed pattern pressed onto it (usually by engraved rollers)
A printed picture produced from a photographic negative
Put into print;
The newspaper published the news of the royal couple's divorce
These news should not be printed
Write as if with print; not cursive
Make into a print;
Print the negative
Reproduce by printing
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