imprint

Tanımlar (İngilizce)

1. isim An impression; the mark left behind by printing something or by pressing on something, or the figurative counterpart of such a mark.

   “Their footsteps left an imprint in the sand.”

2. isim The name and details of a publisher or printer, as printed in a book etc.; (metonymic) the publisher, publishing house, or printer; their brand, or one of their subbrands.

   “Each of the Big Five publishers has many imprints; for example, the imprints of Penguin Random House include Crown, DK, and Knopf Doubleday.”

3. isim A distinctive marking, symbol, or logo.

   “The shirts bore the company imprint on the right sleeve.”

4. fiil To leave a print, impression, image, etc.

   “For a fee, they can imprint the envelopes with a monogram.”

5. fiil To learn something indelibly at a particular stage of life, such as who one's parents are.

   “Baby birds are known for a propensity to imprint; they tend to imprint on whichever creatures they perceive to be their parents — including humans doing wildlife rescue!”

6. fiil To mark a gene as being from a particular parent so that only one of the two copies of the gene is expressed.