What's the difference between footstep and impression?

Footstep


Definition:

  • (n.) The mark or impression of the foot; a track; hence, visible sign of a course pursued; token; mark; as, the footsteps of divine wisdom.
  • (n.) An inclined plane under a hand printing press.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) 3.06pm: In the Daily Politics debate, Davey followed in the footsteps of Clegg in trying to put distance between himself and the Conservatives and Labour – the "old parties", as Davey described him.
  • (2) Tellingly, though, the women's daughters have shown no interest in following in their footsteps.
  • (3) Goldsmith, following in the footsteps of his father , who started the rabid anti-EU referendum campaign, is for a hard Brexit, wrenching us away as brutally and damagingly as possible.
  • (4) About 30 people took three weeks to walk from South Tyneside to London in the footsteps of the Jarrow Crusade of 1936 which highlighted unemployment and poverty during the Great Depression.
  • (5) Harold Tillman, owner of retailers Jaeger and Aquascutum (the name means "water shield") had ambitions to follow in the footsteps of Burberry, another classic but antiquated British label which had reinvented itself as a worldwide luxury brand.
  • (6) Will Spanish publishers follow in Germany’s footsteps and backtrack?
  • (7) It described the move by Robinson and Carroll as "a huge success for community relations in the United Kingdom" and urged others, both in the EDL and Islamist groups, to follow in the pair's footsteps and abandon extremist ideologies.
  • (8) He suggested that other European countries would follow in Britain’s footsteps and leave the EU.
  • (9) Perception of natural sounds of approaching and moving away footsteps was studied.
  • (10) With a computerized optical pedobarograph, three footsteps on each side were recorded under three conditions: 1) barefoot, 2) wearing the patients' own hosiery, and 3) wearing experimental patented padded hosiery.
  • (11) Bob Cant, editor of a 2008 book called Footsteps and Witnesses: Lesbian and Gay Lifestories from Scotland, says that when he was growing up in 1950s and 60s Scotland, the illegality of homosexual activity was “not a problem for me at all”.
  • (12) He said they wanted to go to Malaysia to find jobs, following in the footsteps of others from his village.
  • (13) The frontier of space is just a follow-on – we're following on in the footsteps of those who preceded us, and hopefully we'll give those that follow-on in our footsteps the same opportunity that we had.
  • (14) I feel at home, everything feels at home, for my family too, they’re set up very well here.” The Nigeria international Moses followed closely in Song’s footsteps and will now spend a third year in succession away from Stamford Bridge on loan.
  • (15) Alex Salmond could not be trusted as he had this hidden agenda – Sturgeon follows in his footsteps.
  • (16) The idea that never having seen each other, Amanda would go into space, follow in her mother's footsteps... it was very moving to me."
  • (17) When asked if he wanted to follow in his predecessor Danny Cohen's footsteps and become BBC1 controller, Bennett responded: "No."
  • (18) LG Winter Gardens, Morecambe ( liveatlica.org ), 23-27 September Speed-The-Plow Lindsay Lohan , making her West End debut, follows in the footsteps of Madonna in David Mamet’s caustic Hollywood satire.
  • (19) Determined not to follow in his father's footsteps, Schulberg began writing ironic short stories about Hollywood, and took part in the leftwing Western Writers' Congress in 1936.
  • (20) Get on with the program and follow our Venezuelan footsteps, because after all, we (almost) always win Miss Universe, thanks to the beauty standards established by our beloved Mr Sousa.

Impression


Definition:

  • (n.) The act of impressing, or the state of being impressed; the communication of a stamp, mold, style, or character, by external force or by influence.
  • (n.) That which is impressed; stamp; mark; indentation; sensible result of an influence exerted from without.
  • (n.) That which impresses, or exercises an effect, action, or agency; appearance; phenomenon.
  • (n.) Influence or effect on the senses or the intellect hence, interest, concern.
  • (n.) An indistinct notion, remembrance, or belief.
  • (n.) Impressiveness; emphasis of delivery.
  • (n.) The pressure of the type on the paper, or the result of such pressure, as regards its appearance; as, a heavy impression; a clear, or a poor, impression; also, a single copy as the result of printing, or the whole edition printed at a given time.
  • (n.) In painting, the first coat of color, as the priming in house painting and the like.
  • (n.) A print on paper from a wood block, metal plate, or the like.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) In addition, the guanosine 3',5'-cyclic monophosphate accumulation response was less impressive in glomeruli than the guanylate cyclase response in IMCD tissue.
  • (2) Of all materials evaluated, Xantopren Blue and Silene silicone impression materials provided the best results in vivo.
  • (3) During the interview process, nurse applicants frequently inquire about the availability of such a program and have been very favorably impressed when we have been able to offer them this approach to orientation.
  • (4) Nwakali, an attacking midfielder, was the player of the Under-17 World Cup in Chile last year, which Nigeria won, and at which his team-mate Chukwueze, a winger, also impressed.
  • (5) Ketazolam was found to be significantly better than placebo in alleviating anxiety and its concomitant symptomatology as measured by the Hamilton Anxiety Rating Scale, three Physician's Global Impressions, two Patient's Global Impressions, and three Target Symptoms.
  • (6) Personal experience is recorded with two cases and the positive impressions of this operation.
  • (7) His words surprised some because of an impression that the US was unwilling to talk about these issues.
  • (8) It’s the small margins that have cost us.” There is more to it than that, of course, and Rooney gave the impression he had been hard on himself since the Uruguay game.
  • (9) The most reproducible instrument was the combination of Regisil, an elastic impression material, and a Rinn XCP bite block.
  • (10) (4) Electrical stimulation by cutaneous devices or implants can give much benefit to some patients in whom other methods have failed and there are indications, not only from anecdote and clinical impression but also now from experimental physiology, that it may benefit by mechanisms of interaction at the first sensory synapse.
  • (11) This is what we hope is the best golf tournament in the world, one of the greatest sporting events, and I think we will have a very impressive audience and have another great champion to crown this year."
  • (12) The orchestrated round of warnings from the Obama administration did not impress a coterie of senior Republicans who were similarly paraded on the talk shows, blaming the White House for having brought the country to the brink of yet another "manufactured crisis".
  • (13) Systolic time intervals measured after profuse sweating can give a false impression of cardiac function.
  • (14) Watford’s front two have impressed with their hard work, their technical quality and their interplay – a classic strike duo.
  • (15) The author differentiates between two modes of perception, one is the "expressive" mode, stabilizing and aiming at constancy, the other is the "impressive" mode, penetrating the self and aiming at identification with the percept.
  • (16) The results obtained by combined superficial freezing and intralesional stibogluconate injection were much more impressive than those obtained by each of the two modalities when used alone.
  • (17) Findings and impressions of a member of a British medical support group who toured the health services in newly independent Mozambique in September 1975.
  • (18) Forty impressions were poured with the disinfectant dental stone and a similar number were poured with a comparable, nondisinfectant stone.
  • (19) Our older population is the most impressive, self-sacrificing and imaginative part of our entire community.
  • (20) Two recently reported large scale clinical surveys support the impression that the new non-ionic low osmolality iodinated radiographic contrast media are indeed significantly safer for intravascular use than conventional agents.