Impress
[ɪm'pres] or [ɪm'prɛs]
Definition
(noun.) the act of coercing someone into government service.
(verb.) dye (fabric) before it is spun.
(verb.) produce or try to produce a vivid impression of; 'Mother tried to ingrain respect for our elders in us'.
(verb.) mark or stamp with or as if with pressure; 'To make a batik, you impress a design with wax'.
(verb.) impress positively; 'The young chess player impressed her audience'.
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Definition
(v. t.) To press, stamp, or print something in or upon; to mark by pressure, or as by pressure; to imprint (that which bears the impression).
(v. t.) To produce by pressure, as a mark, stamp, image, etc.; to imprint (a mark or figure upon something).
(v. t.) Fig.: To fix deeply in the mind; to present forcibly to the attention, etc.; to imprint; to inculcate.
(n.) To take by force for public service; as, to impress sailors or money.
(v. i.) To be impressed; to rest.
(n.) The act of impressing or making.
(n.) A mark made by pressure; an indentation; imprint; the image or figure of anything, formed by pressure or as if by pressure; result produced by pressure or influence.
(n.) Characteristic; mark of distinction; stamp.
(n.) A device. See Impresa.
(n.) The act of impressing, or taking by force for the public service; compulsion to serve; also, that which is impressed.
Typist: Shelley
Synonyms and Synonymous
v. a. [1]. Stamp, print, imprint, mark by pressure.[2]. Inculcate, fix deeply.[3]. Press, force into public service.
n. [1]. Print, imprint, stamp, impression, mark, seal.[2]. Device (as upon a seal), motto, cognizance, symbol, emblem.
Typist: Phil
Synonyms and Antonyms
SYN:Imprint, print, device, motto, impression, stamp,[See DEVICE_and_STAMP]
SYN:Stamp, print, imprint, inculcate, fix_deeply
ANT:Learn, be_impressed, be_studious, be_mindful
Checker: Polly
Definition
v.t. to force into service esp. the public service.—n. Im′press.
v.t. to press upon: to mark by pressure: to produce by pressure: to stamp: to fix deeply in the mind.—ns. Im′press that which is made by pressure: stamp: likeness; Impressibil′ity.—adj. Impress′ible susceptible.—n. Impress′ibleness.—adv. Impress′ibly.—ns. Impress′ion the act or result of impressing: a single edition of a book: the effect of any object on the mind: idea: slight remembrance; Impressionabil′ity.—adj. Impress′ionable able to receive an impression.—ns. Impress′ionism a modern movement in art and literature originating in France its aim being to cast off the trammels of artistic tradition and to look at nature in a fresh and original manner—it employs general effects vigorous touches and deals in masses of form and colour; Impress′ionist.—adv. Impressionis′tic.—adj. Impress′ive capable of making an impression on the mind: solemn.—adv. Impress′ively—ns. Impress′iveness; Impress′ure (Shak.) impression.
n. (Milt.) a device worn by a noble or his retainers.
Checked by Erwin
Examples
- And yet as we saw it that autumn morning, it was not its beauty which would be the first thing to impress the observer. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
- His work, too, has left its impress for good on the face of Europe. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- It really did seem to impress him, to the utmost extent of his capacity of being impressed. Charles Dickens. Hard Times.
- With my strict English ideas as to the class of clothes to be worn by a prominent man, there was nothing in Edison's dress to impress me. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- His countenance was therefore fully displayed, and its expression was calculated to impress a degree of awe, if not of fear, upon strangers. Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
- And he had an abnormal share of youth's normal ambition to impress everybody. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- Yet scarcely a single accent among the many afloat tonight could have such power to impress a listener with thoughts of its origin. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
- I told Catherine and Ferguson about him and Ferguson was very impressed. Ernest Hemingway. A Farewell To Arms.
- A vague feeling of impending misfortune impressed me. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes.
- He was modestly impressed by Mr. Kenge's professional eminence. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- In following the final assembly line from the point where the chain conveyor engages the frame and axles, the visitor is impressed with the dispatch with which every movement is executed. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- Then Hubbard discovered a young man in Washington who impressed him as having remarkable executive ability. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
- In my education my father had taken the greatest precautions that my mind should be impressed with no supernatural horrors. Mary Shelley. Frankenstein_Or_The Modern Prometheus.
- His punishment had impressed him with no sense of shame, and he did not experience that feeling on encountering his chastiser. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- 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.
- These differences blend into each other by an insensible series; and a series impresses the mind with the idea of an actual passage. Charles Darwin. On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection.
- The consideration of these various facts impresses the mind almost in the same manner as does the vain endeavour to grapple with the idea of eternity. Charles Darwin. On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection.
- Well, that's how Milverton impresses me. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
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