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Imprint vs Coining - What's the difference?

imprint | coining |

As nouns the difference between imprint and coining

is that imprint is an impression; the mark left behind by printing something while coining is (uncountable) a form of alternative medicine from southeast asia where a coin is rubbed vigorously on a patient's oiled skin.

As verbs the difference between imprint and coining

is that imprint is to leave a print, impression, image, etc while coining is .

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.

    • coining

    English

    Verb

    (head)

    • Noun

  • (uncountable) A form of alternative medicine from Southeast Asia where a coin is rubbed vigorously on a patient's oiled skin.
  • (countable, linguistics) A newly created word or phrase
  • *{{quote-book
    • , year=1783 , author=Hugh Blair , editor=George Edward Griffiths , title=The Monthly Review , volume=68 , section=Art. V. Lectures on Rhetoric and Belles Lettres. citation , page= 499 , passage=Poetry admits of greater latitude than pro?e, which with re?pect to coining , or, at lea?t, new-compounding words; yet, even here, this liberty ?hould be u?ed with a ?paring hand. }}
  • *{{quote-book
    • , year=1989 , author=Horsley, G.H.R. , title=New Documents Illustrating Early Christianity , volume=5 , chapter=The Greek Documentary Evidence and NT Lexical Study: Some Soundings citation , isbn=9780858376366 , page=77 , passage=Once we move into the Patristic period, there is undoubted evidence for new coinings of words (particularly compounds) as a response to the needs of the theological debates which occurred.}}
  • *{{quote-book
    • , year= 2009 , author=Kristin Denham, Anne Lobeck , title=Linguistics for Everyone: An Introduction , chapter=Morphological Typology and Word Formation citation , isbn=9781413015898 , page= 194 , passage=Coinings' or neologisms are words that have recently been created. [...] True ' coinings , which are completely new words, are rather rare relative to the vast number of words we create by means of the other word formation processes.}}

    Synonyms

    * (newly created word) neologism