Impressing
[im'presɪŋ]
Definition
(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Impress
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Examples
- It consists of impressing oil pictures on a bat of glue and then pressing the bat on to the porous unbaked clay or porcelain which transferred the colours. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
- When two species are crossed, one has sometimes a prepotent power of impressing its likeness on the hybrid. Charles Darwin. On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection.
- Any number of dies may now be made from this punch by impressing upon it plugs of soft steel. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- The prevision of a coming disappointment was impressing itself on their minds as well as on mine. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
- The most important of these was made by Mr. Bain, who in 1847 applied for this purpose the method of impressing the symbols on paper by electro-chemical decomposition. Frederick C. Bakewell. Great Facts.
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