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Implant vs Imprint - What's the difference?

implant | imprint |

As verbs the difference between implant and imprint

is that implant is to fix firmly or set securely or deeply while imprint is to leave a print, impression, , etc.

As nouns the difference between implant and imprint

is that implant is anything surgically implanted in the body, such as a tissue graft or prosthesis, particularly breast implants while imprint is an impression; the mark left behind by printing something.

implant

English

Verb

(en verb)
  • To fix firmly or set securely or deeply.
  • To insert (something) surgically into the body.
  • Of an embryo, to become attached to and embedded in the womb.
  • Synonyms

    * (fix firmly or set securely or deeply ): embed/imbed, engraft, engrain, graft, insert, instil/instill, plant, root * (insert (something) surgically into the body''): graft (''from another part of the body )

    Derived terms

    * implantable

    Noun

    (wikipedia implant) (en noun)
  • Anything surgically implanted in the body, such as a tissue graft or prosthesis, particularly (breast implant)s.
  • (travel) A representative of a travel company, working within the office of a large client and exclusively dealing with that client.
  • Derived terms

    * (breast implant) (l)

    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.