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Emprinted vs Imprinted - What's the difference?

emprinted | imprinted |

As verbs the difference between emprinted and imprinted

is that emprinted is (emprint) while imprinted is (imprint).

As an adjective imprinted is

stamped or impressed.

emprinted

English

Verb

(head)
  • (emprint)

    • emprint

    English

    Verb

    (en verb)
    • (Webster 1913)

    imprinted

    English

    Verb

    (head)
  • (imprint)

    • Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Stamped or impressed.
  • (genetics) Produced by or exhibiting imprinting; showing distinction by its origin from the paternal or maternal genome.
  • *1999 , (Matt Ridley), Genome , Harper Perennial 2004, p. 217:
  • *:The inference is that there is an imprinted' gene somewhere on the X chromosome, which is normally switched on only on the paternal copy and that this gene somehow enhances the development of social adjustment [...].