Ingrain vs Imprint - What's the difference?
ingrain | imprint |
To make something deeply part of something else, either literally or figuratively.
Dyed with grain, or kermes.
Dyed before manufacture; said of the material of a textile fabric; hence, in general, thoroughly inwrought; forming an essential part of the substance.
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.
As verbs the difference between ingrain and imprint
is that ingrain is to make something deeply part of something else, either literally or figuratively while imprint is to leave a print, impression, image, etc.As nouns the difference between ingrain and imprint
is that ingrain is an ingrain fabric, such as a carpet while imprint is an impression; the mark left behind by printing something.As an adjective ingrain
is dyed with grain, or kermes.ingrain
English
Verb
(en verb)- The dirt was deeply ingrained in the carpet.
- The lessons I learned at school were firmly ingrained in my mind.
Synonyms
* radicate * breed in the boneAdjective
(-)Anagrams
*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