Imprint vs Fingerprint - What's the difference?
imprint | fingerprint |
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.
The unique natural pattern of ridges on the tips of the fingers.
The patterns left on surfaces where uncovered fingertips have touched.
(computing) Unique identification for public key in asymmetric cryptosystem.
To take somebody's fingerprints.
As nouns the difference between imprint and fingerprint
is that imprint is an impression; the mark left behind by printing something while fingerprint is the unique natural pattern of ridges on the tips of the fingers.As verbs the difference between imprint and fingerprint
is that imprint is to leave a print, impression, , etc while fingerprint is to take somebody's fingerprints.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
fingerprint
English
(wikipedia fingerprint)Alternative forms
* finger-printNoun
(en noun)Hyponyms
* thumbprintDerived terms
* fingerprint analysis * fingerprint recognitionSee also
* (computing) hashVerb
(en verb)- ''The jail staff fingerprints its 'guests' routinely