Denote vs Imprint - What's the difference?
denote | imprint | Related terms |
To indicate; to mark.
To make overt.
To refer to literally; to convey meaning.
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.
* Prior
* Cowper
* John Locke
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.
Denote is a related term of imprint.
As verbs the difference between denote and imprint
is that denote is while imprint is to leave a print, impression, image, etc.As a noun imprint is
an impression; the mark left behind by printing something.denote
English
Verb
(denot)- The yellow blazes denote the trail.
- The tears denoted her true feelings.
- "Pre-" denotes "before."
Derived terms
* denotation * denotative ----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