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Imprint vs Enwrite - What's the difference?

imprint | enwrite |

As verbs the difference between imprint and enwrite

is that imprint is to leave a print, impression, , etc while enwrite is to write upon something; inscribe; imprint.

As a noun imprint

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

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.
  • enwrite

    English

    Alternative forms

    * (l)

    Verb

  • To write upon something; inscribe; imprint.
  • *1905 , Iowa State Education Association, Proceedings of the Annual Session :
  • It is the good fortune of those who lay foundations to so inwrite their names in the annals of the institutions that they found that the historian can neither overlook them nor ignore them.
  • *1863 , Edgar Allan Poe, The Works of Edgar Allan Poe :
  • What wild heart histories seemed to lie enwritten / Upon those crystalline, celestial spheres!