Brand vs Imprint - What's the difference?
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A piece of wood red-hot, or still burning, from the fire.
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(archaic) A sword.
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A mark of ownership made by burning, e.g. on cattle, or to classify the contents of a cask.
A branding iron.
A name, symbol, logo, or other item used to distinguish a product or service, or its provider.
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A specific product, service, or provider so distinguished.
Any specific type or variety of something; a distinct style, manner.
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The reputation among some population of an organization, of the products sold under a particular brand name, or of a person.
Any minute fungus producing a burnt appearance in plants.
To burn the flesh with a hot iron, either as a marker (for criminals, slaves etc.) or to cauterise a wound.
:When they caught him, he was branded and then locked up.
To mark (especially cattle) with a brand as proof of ownership.
:The ranch hands had to brand every new calf by lunchtime.
To make an indelible impression on the memory or senses.
:Her face is branded upon my memory.
To stigmatize, label (someone).
:He was branded a fool by everyone that heard his story.
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*:I had never defrauded a man of a farthing, nor called him knave behind his back. But now the last rag that covered my nakedness had been torn from me. I was branded a blackleg, card-sharper, and murderer.
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, title= (marketing) To associate a product or service with a trademark or other name and related images.
:They branded the new detergent "Suds-O", with a nature scene inside a green O on the muted-colored recycled-cardboard box.
(advertising) Associated with a particular product, service, or company.
An impression; the mark left behind by printing something.
The name and details of a publisher or printer, as printed in a book etc.; a publishing house.
A distinctive marking, symbol or logo.
To leave a print, impression, image, etc.
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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.
Brand is a related term of imprint.
As an adjective brand
is burnt, branded.As a noun imprint is
an impression; the mark left behind by printing something.As a verb imprint is
to leave a print, impression, image, etc.brand
English
(wikipedia brand)Noun
(en noun)- Snatching a live brand from a wigwam, Mason threw it on a matted roof.
- Paradise, so late their happy seat, / Waved over by that flaming brand .
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Synonyms
* trademark, logo, brand name, marque, tradename, proprietary name * (reputation) repute, name, good nameDerived terms
* brand awareness * brand equity * brand image * brand linkage * brand name * brand parity * brand stretch * branding * branding moment * own brandSee also
* * * * * * * * Picture Sorts * trademark * servicemarkVerb
(en verb)Man Utd 1-6 Man City, passage=As Ferguson strode briskly towards the Stretford End at the final whistle, he will have been reflecting on the extent of the challenge now facing him from the club he once branded "noisy neighbours".}}
Adjective
(-)- That computer company has brand recognition.
- Have we settled on our brand name?
imprint
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) empreinte, from the past participle of empreindre, from (etyl)Noun
(en noun)- The day left an imprint in my mind.
- 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)- For a fee, they can imprint the envelopes with a monogram.
- And sees his num'rous herds imprint her sands.
- Nature imprints upon whate'er we see, / That has a heart and life in it, "Be free."
- ideas of those two different things distinctly imprinted on his mind