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Imprint vs Designate - What's the difference?

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Imprint is a related term of designate.


As verbs the difference between imprint and designate

is that imprint is to leave a print, impression, image, etc while designate is to mark out and make known; to point out; to name; to indicate; to show; to distinguish by marks or description; to specify; as, to designate the boundaries of a country; to designate the rioters who are to be arrested.

As a noun imprint

is an impression; the mark left behind by printing something.

As an adjective designate is

designated; appointed; chosen.

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.
  • designate

    English

    Adjective

    (-)
  • Designated; appointed; chosen.
  • Verb

    (designat)
  • To mark out and make known; to point out; to name; to indicate; to show; to distinguish by marks or description; to specify; as, to designate the boundaries of a country; to designate the rioters who are to be arrested.
  • To call by a distinctive title; to name.
  • * 1912 , Stratemeyer Syndicate, Baseball Joe on the School Nine Chapter 1
  • "Yes, let 'Sister' Davis have a whack at it too," urged George Bland. Tom Davis, who was Joe Matson's particular chum, was designated "Sister" because, in an incautious moment, when first coming to Excelsior Hall, he had shown a picture of his very pretty sister, Mabel.
  • To indicate or set apart for a purpose or duty; -- with to or for; to designate an officer for or to the command of a post or station.
  • Synonyms

    * name * denominate * style * entitle * characterize * describe * denote

    Derived terms

    * designated driver * designated hitter