protrude English
Verb
( protrud)
To extend from, above or beyond a surface or boundary; to bulge outward; to stick out.
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- Archegonia are surrounded early in their development by the juvenile perianth, through the slender beak of which the elongated neck of the fertilized archegonium protrudes .
To thrust forward; to drive or force along.
- (John Locke)
To thrust out, as through a narrow orifice or from confinement; to cause to come forth.
* Thomson
- When Spring protrudes the bursting gems.
Derived terms
* protrudable
* protrudent
* protrusible
* protrusion
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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.}}
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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.}}
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To produce a vivid impression of (something).
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To mark or stamp (something) using pressure.
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* 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.
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To seize or confiscate (property) by force.
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* 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.
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* 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?
Related terms
* impressed
* impression
* impressive
* impressively
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