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Betoken vs Imprint - What's the difference?

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Betoken is a related term of imprint.


As verbs the difference between betoken and imprint

is that betoken is signify by some visible object; show by signs or tokens while imprint is to leave a print, impression, image, etc.

As a noun imprint is

an impression; the mark left behind by printing something.

betoken

English

Verb

  • Signify by some visible object; show by signs or tokens.
  • * 1557 : ?], [http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=4bZPHQAACAAJ&dq=betokeneth&ei=d6N7SafwL5P2Mdas2JYE page unknown (Ihon Kyngstone)
    • There be other 2 signes in often use of which the first is made thus?+?and betokeneth' more?:?the other is thus made?–?and ' betokeneth lesse.
  • Foreshow by present signs; indicate something future by that which is seen or known.
  • * 1853 : , page 474 (Harper & Brothers, 329 & 331 Pearl Street, Franklin Square, New York)
    • “?Ah?!?hospitable land, thou (nevertheless) betokenest' war,” ''i.?e.'', although hospitable, thou nevertheless '''betokenest war.?—?''Bello .

    Synonyms

    * (signify) indicate, mark, note * (foreshow) portend, presage

    References

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    imprint

    English

    Etymology 1

    From (etyl) empreinte, from the past participle of empreindre, from (etyl)

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • An impression; the mark left behind by printing something.
    • The day left an imprint in my mind.
  • The name and details of a publisher or printer, as printed in a book etc.; a publishing house.
  • A distinctive marking, symbol or logo.
    • The shirts bore the company imprint on the right sleeve.

    Etymology 2

    From (etyl) empreinter, from the past participle of empreindre, from (etyl)

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To leave a print, impression, image, etc.
    • For a fee, they can imprint the envelopes with a monogram.
  • * Prior
    • And sees his num'rous herds imprint her sands.
  • * Cowper
    • Nature imprints upon whate'er we see, / That has a heart and life in it, "Be free."
  • * John Locke
    • ideas of those two different things distinctly imprinted on his mind
  • To learn something indelibly at a particular stage of life, such as who one's mother is.
  • To mark a gene as being from a particular parent so that only one of the two copies of the gene is expressed.