Dictionary Definition
impress n : the act of coercing someone into
government service [syn: impressment]
Verb
1 have an emotional or cognitive impact upon;
"This child impressed me as unusually mature"; "This behavior
struck me as odd" [syn: affect, move, strike]
2 impress positively; "The young chess player
impressed her audience"
3 produce or try to produce a vivid impression
of; "Mother tried to ingrain respect for our elders in us" [syn:
ingrain, instill]
4 mark or stamp with or as if with pressure; "To
make a batik, you impress a design with wax" [syn: imprint]
5 reproduce by printing [syn: print]
6 take (someone) against his will for compulsory
service, especially on board a ship; "The men were shanghaied after
being drugged" [syn: shanghai]
7 dye (fabric) before it is spun [syn: yarn-dye]
User Contributed Dictionary
English
Pronunciation 1
- , /ɪmˈprɛs/, /Im"prEs/
- Rhymes with: -ɛs
Verb
- To affect (someone)
strongly and often
favourably
- You impressed me with your command of Urdu.
- To produce a
vivid impression of (something)
- That first view of the Eiger impressed itself on my mind.
- To mark or stamp (something) using pressure
- We impressed our footprints in the wet cement.
- To compel (someone)
to serve in a military force
- The press gang used to impress people into the Navy.
- To seize or confiscate (property) by force
- The liner was impressed as a troop carrier.
- To make an impression, to be impressive
- Henderson impressed in his first game as captain.
Synonyms
- (affect (someone) strongly and often favourably): make an impression on
- (produce a vivid impression of):
- (mark or stamp (something) using pressure): imprint, print, stamp
- (compel (someone) to serve in a military force): pressgang
- (seize or confiscate (property) by force): confiscate, impound, seize, sequester
Translations
affect (someone) strongly and often favourably
- French: impressioner
- Italian: impressionare
- Portuguese: impressionar
produce a vivid impression of
- Portuguese: impressionar
mark or stamp (something) using pressure
compel (someone) to serve in a military force
seize or confiscate (property) by force
make an impression
- Portuguese: impressionar
Pronunciation 2
- , /ˈɪmprɛs/, /"ImprEs/
Noun
- The act of impressing
- An impression, and impressed image or copy of something
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- 1908: We know that you were pressed for money, that you took an impress of the keys which your brother held — Arthur Conan Doyle, ‘The Adventure of the Bruce-Partington Plans’ (Norton 2005, p.1330)
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- A stamp or seal used to make an impression
- Something impressed
Translations
act of impressing
impression
stamp or seal used to make an impression
something impressed
Related terms
Extensive Definition
Impress or Impression may have several
meanings:
- OpenOffice.org Impress, a presentation program included in the OpenOffice.org office suite.
- OfficeMax ImPress Print & Document Services, a division of OfficeMax, Inc. specializing in the pay-for-print industry
- Impressment is the act of conscripting people to serve in the military or navy.
- Impression seal, a type of accent seal.
- Impression, Sunrise, a painting by Claude Monet.
- Cost Per Impression, a term used in online marketing for measuring the worth and cost of a specific e-marketing campaign.
- Case of first impression, a case or controversy over an interpretation of law never before reported or decided by that court.
- Present sense impression, in the law of evidence, is a statement made by a person that conveys their sense of the state of certain things at the time the person was perceiving the event, or immediately thereafter.
- Maternal impression, an obsolete scientific theory that explained the existence of birth defects and congenital disorders.
- Big Impression, a British comedy sketch show.
- Impression (Dragonriders of Pern), a joining of the minds in the Dragonriders of Pern fictional universe.
Synonyms, Antonyms and Related Words
Ditto copy, Photostat, Xerox, Xerox copy, abduce, abduct, affect, alveolation, alveolus, annex, aquatint, aroma, arrest the thoughts,
attach, attribute, autolithograph, backlash, backwash, badge, beat into, bed, blaze a trail, blemish, block, block print, blotch, boss, brainwash, brand, bring home to, bring into
play, bring out, bump,
cachet, call up, carry, carry away, carry off,
cast, catch the thoughts,
catechize, chalk, chalk up, character, characteristic, check, check off, chromolithograph,
cicatrize, clout, collectivize, colophon, color print, come
home to, commandeer,
communalize,
communize, concavity, condition, configuration, confirm, confiscate, conscript, contact print,
convert to use, convexity, copperplate, copperplate
print, crayon engraving, crimp, cut, dactylogram, dactylograph, dapple, dash, deep-dye, define, delimit, demarcate, dent, depress, detach, detach for service,
differentia,
differential,
dimple, dint, discolor, distinctive feature,
distrain, dot, draft, drive, earmark, electrify, embed, emboss, embossment, emphasize, engraft, engrave, engravement, engraving, enlargement, enlist, enlist into service,
enroll, enthuse, entrench, establish, etch, etching, excite, excrescence, expropriate, fall back upon,
feature, figure, fingerprint, fix, flavor, fleck, footmark, footprint, footstep, force, fossil footprint, found, freckle, furrow, galvanize, garnish, gash, get, get out, gouge, grab, graphotype, grave, ground, gust, hallmark, hammer, hatch, have recourse to, hectograph, hectograph copy,
hit, hit the mark, hold for
ransom, honeycomb,
ichnite, ichnolite, idiocrasy, idiosyncrasy, imbue, impact, implant, impound, impregnate, impress forcibly,
impression, imprint, inculcate, indent, indentation, indention, indenture, index, individualism, indoctrinate, induct, infix, influence, infuse, ingrain, inoculate, inscribe, inspire, instill, issue, jam, join, keynote, kidnap, letterpress, levy, line, lineaments, linoleum-block
print, list, lithograph, lodge, look to, lump, mackle, make a mark, make an
impression, mannerism,
mark, mark off, mark out,
marking, mezzotint, mimeograph, mimeograph copy,
mobilize, mold, mottle, move, multigraph, muster, muster in, nationalize, nature, negative, nick, notch, odor, offcut, offprint, offset, overprint, pack, pad, particularity, paw print,
pawmark, peculiarity, pencil, pepper, persuade, photocopy, photograph, photostatic copy,
pimple, pique, pit, plant, pock, pockmark, point, positive, pound, press, press in, prick, print, program, proof, property, prove, provoke, publish, pug, pugmark, pull, pull a proof, punch, punch in, punctuate, puncture, put in requisition,
put out, put to bed, put to press, quality, quirk, raise, reach, reaction, recess, recoil, recruit, recur to, refer to,
reflex, reissue, repercussion, replevin, replevy, reprint, resort to, response, revert to, riddle, rock, root, rubber-block print, run, run away with, run off,
savor, scar, scarify, score, scotch, scratch, seal, seam, seat, sequester, sequestrate, set, set back, set in, setoff, settle, shanghai, shape, sigil, sign on, sign up, signet, singularity, sink in,
skyjack, smack, smite, snatch, socialize, specialty, speck, speckle, spirit away, splotch, spot, stain, stamp, stat, step, stereotype, stigmatize, stimulate, stir, streak, stress, striate, strike, strike hard, strike home,
stripe, stud, summon, sunken part, sway, taint, take to, tamp, tang, taste, tattoo, tell, thrill, thumbmark, thumbprint, tick, tick off, token, touch, trace, trait, traumatize, trick, turn to, turn to use,
underline, underscore, urge, vestige, vignette, wedge, wood engraving, woodblock, woodcut, woodprint, xylograph