Imprint vs Imprinting - What's the difference?
imprint | imprinting |
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.
(psychology, ethology) Any kind of phase-sensitive learning (learning occurring at a particular age or a particular life stage) that is rapid and apparently independent of the consequences of behavior.
As nouns the difference between imprint and imprinting
is that imprint is an impression; the mark left behind by printing something while imprinting is (psychology|ethology) any kind of phase-sensitive learning (learning occurring at a particular age or a particular life stage) that is rapid and apparently independent of the consequences of behavior.As verbs the difference between imprint and imprinting
is that imprint is to leave a print, impression, image, etc while imprinting is .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