Imprint vs Reprint - What's the difference?
imprint | reprint |
An impression; the mark left behind by printing something.
The name and details of a publisher or printer, as printed in a book etc.; a publishing house.
A distinctive marking, symbol or logo.
To leave a print, impression, image, etc.
* Prior
* Cowper
* John Locke
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.
A book, pamphlet or other printed matter that has been published once before but is now being released again.
To print (something) that has been published in print before.
To renew the impression of.
* South
As nouns the difference between imprint and reprint
is that imprint is an impression; the mark left behind by printing something while reprint is a book, pamphlet or other printed matter that has been published once before but is now being released again.As verbs the difference between imprint and reprint
is that imprint is to leave a print, impression, , etc while reprint is to print (something) that has been published in print before.imprint
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) empreinte, from the past participle of empreindre, from (etyl)Noun
(en noun)- The day left an imprint in my mind.
- 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)- For a fee, they can imprint the envelopes with a monogram.
- And sees his num'rous herds imprint her sands.
- Nature imprints upon whate'er we see, / That has a heart and life in it, "Be free."
- ideas of those two different things distinctly imprinted on his mind
reprint
English
Noun
(en noun)- The reprint is much less expensive than a first edition.
Verb
(en verb)- The whole business of our redemption is to reprint God's image upon the soul.