See Also: imprint(medicine)
imprint(1)(dictionary)
imprint(2)(dictionary)
imprint 1, noun(dictionary)
imprint 2, verb(dictionary)

agglutinative (iou) and imprint(1) (iou)


agglutinative (iou)



agglutinative adjective. L16.
[French agglutinatif, -ive or from AGGLUTINATE verb + -IVE.]
Of or pertaining to agglutination; adhesive, cementing. L16.
Philology. Characterized by agglutination. M17.

imprint(1) (iou)



imprint noun. Also (earlier) emprint. LME.
[Old & mod. French empreinte use as noun of fem. pa. pple of empreindre: see IMPRINT verb, PRINT noun.]
A mark produced by pressure on a surface; an impression, a stamp. LME.
H. Moore Clay is wonderful stuff to punch and feel that the imprint of your fist is left in it. J. T. Story He put coal dust on the blotter and read the imprint of my letter.
b. fig. A lasting impression or sign of some emotion, experience, action, etc.; an influence; an effect. E17.
C. G. Wolff Edith Wharton had to contend with the part of herself that carried Mother's imprint. P. D. James His face, his clothes, the confident gaze, all bore the unmistakable imprint of Success.
A publisher's or printer's name, often with an address, date, and Other details of publication, printed in a book etc., usu. on the title-page, or at the foot of a single sheet; any of various names used as imprints by a publishing house; loosely a publishing house. L18.
P. Ackroyd The Woolfs had agreed to print Eliot's..work under the imprint of the Hogarth Press. A. Blond The New English Library (..an imprint of Hodder and Stoughton).
Something printed; spec. a postage stamp printed on the paper to be used. L19.
Library The Library now has an almost complete collection of Norwegian imprints.
(Imprint.) A typeface derived from Caslon [named after the periodical for which it was designed]. E20.