Point_out vs Imprint - What's the difference?
point_out | imprint | Related terms |
(idiomatic) To identify among a group of similar subjects, or in a scene where the subject might not be readily seen or noticed, with a gesture of the body.
(figuratively, idiomatic) To tell, remind, indicate.
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.
Point_out is a related term of imprint.
As verbs the difference between point_out and imprint
is that point_out is (idiomatic) to identify among a group of similar subjects, or in a scene where the subject might not be readily seen or noticed, with a gesture of the body while imprint is to leave a print, impression, image, etc.As a noun imprint is
an impression; the mark left behind by printing something.point_out
English
Verb
- He pointed out the little brown bird in the tree.
- She pointed out the two drummers in the class.
- I would just like to point out that we need to finish our meeting by 9 o'clock.
Anagrams
* English phrasal verbsimprint
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