Impress vs Heed - What's the difference?

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Impress is a related term of heed.

As nouns the difference between impress and heed

is that impress is the act of impressing while heed is heathen, pagan or heed can be heath.

As a verb impress

is to affect (someone) strongly and often favourably.

impress

English

Verb

(es)

To affect (someone) strongly and often favourably.

* {{quote-book, year=1963, author=(Margery Allingham), title=(The China Governess)

, chapter=5 citation , passage=Mr. Campion appeared suitably impressed and she warmed to him. He was very easy to talk to with those long clown lines in his pale face, a natural goon, born rather too early she suspected.}}

To make an impression, to be impressive.

* {{quote-news, year=2012, date=September 7, author=Phil McNulty, title=Moldova 0-5 England

, work=BBC Sport citation , passage=Manchester United's Tom Cleverley impressed on his first competitive start and Lampard demonstrated his continued worth at international level in a performance that was little more than a stroll once England swiftly exerted their obvious authority.}}

To produce a vivid impression of (something).

To mark or stamp (something) using pressure.

* Shakespeare

his heart, like an agate, with your print impressed

To produce (a mark, stamp, image, etc.); to imprint (a mark or figure upon something).

(figurative) To fix deeply in the mind; to present forcibly to the attention, etc.; to imprint; to inculcate.

* I. Watts

Impress the motives of persuasion upon our own hearts till we feel the force of them.

To compel (someone) to serve in a military force.

To seize or confiscate (property) by force.

* Evelyn

the second five thousand pounds impressed for the service of the sick and wounded prisoners

Synonyms

* make an impression on * cut a figure * (produce a vivid impression of) * imprint, print, stamp * : pressgang * : confiscate, impound, seize, sequester

Noun

(es)

The act of impressing.

An impression; an impressed image or copy of something.

* Shakespeare

This weak impress of love is as a figure / Trenched in ice.

* 1908 , Arthur Conan Doyle, The Adventure of the Bruce-Partington Plans , Norton 2005, p. 1330:

We know that you were pressed for money, that you took an impress of the keys which your brother held

A stamp or seal used to make an impression.

An impression on the mind, imagination etc.

* 2007 , John Burrow, A History of Histories , Penguin 2009, p. 187:

Such admonitions, in the English of the Authorized Version, left an indelible impress on imaginations nurtured on the Bible

Characteristic; mark of distinction; stamp.

(South)

A heraldic device; an impresa.

(Cussans)

* Milton

To describe emblazoned shields, / Impresses quaint.

The act of impressing, or taking by force for the public service; compulsion to serve; also, that which is impressed.

* Shakespeare

Why such impress of shipwrights?

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heed

English

Noun

(-)

Careful attention.

* 1898 , , (Moonfleet) Chapter 4

Then for a few minutes I did not pay much heed to what was said, being terribly straitened for room, and cramped with pain from lying so long in one place.

Usage notes

* Often used with give, pay or take.

Synonyms

* (careful attention) attention, notice, observation, regard

Verb

(en verb)

To mind; to regard with care; to take notice of; to attend to; to observe.

* Dryden

With pleasure Argus the musician heeds .

* 2013 September 23, Masha Gessen, " Life in a Russian Prison," New York Times (retrieved 24 September 2013):

Tolokonnikova not only tried to adjust to life in the penal colony but she even tried to heed the criticism levied at her by colony representatives during a parole hearing.

(archaic) To pay attention, care.