(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.
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.
Imprint
Definition:
(v. t.) To impress; to mark by pressure; to indent; to stamp.
(v. t.) To stamp or mark, as letters on paper, by means of type, plates, stamps, or the like; to print the mark (figures, letters, etc., upon something).
(v. t.) To fix indelibly or permanently, as in the mind or memory; to impress.
(v. t.) Whatever is impressed or imprinted; the impress or mark left by something; specifically, the name of the printer or publisher (usually) with the time and place of issue, in the title-page of a book, or on any printed sheet.
Example Sentences:
(1) Tissue imprints of rabbit liver and spleen and smears of human venous blood were stained and controlled microscopically.
(2) The novel directions in the study of the brain molecular genetic apparatus can be examinations of chromosomal behavior in the cells in various brain regions and genome imprinting.
(3) The latter practice has previously been ascribed to imprinting and the soothing sound of the mother's heartbeat on the infant.
(4) Steroid hormone receptors were studied in 45 patients with primary, recurrent, or metastatic ovarian cancer in cryostat-frozen sections and imprint preparations.
(5) Recent studies have attempted to test predictions from an interpretation of filial imprinting as a form of associative learning.
(6) The superficial bacterial flora were sampled by velvet pad imprints, and the deep flora were determined from whole skin biopsies.
(7) In addition, the phenotype of proportional dwarfism in the proband suggests imprinting of one or more growth-related genes on chromosome 7.
(8) Such characteristics are reminiscent of the behavior of variegating position-effects in Drosophila and the application of this paradigm to human disease phenotypes provides both a mechanism by which differential genome imprinting may be accomplished as well as genetic models that may explain the clinical association of syntenic diseases, the association between tumor progression and specific chromosomal aneuploidy and the unusual inheritance characteristics of many diseases.
(9) These same areas were previously reported to increase metabolic activity in imprinted Guinea fowl chicks, when they heared the imprinting stimulus during the 2-deoxyglucose experiment.
(10) Furthermore, individual AgNOR dots were much more readily discerned in cell imprints than in sections, and this appears to be the method of choice if pathologists wish to at least approach absolute rather than relative AgNOR counts.
(11) It has been found that the UV radiation-induced extreme state of the cells in a radiant culture produces distantly in an intact detector culture, which has only an optic contact with it, the cytopathic effect (CPE) as a repercussion of a specificity of morphological manifestations imprinted in the affected culture.
(12) Fine needle aspirates and touch imprints of 36 hyperplastic (reactive) lymph nodes were tested for the presence of keratin and desmin.
(13) The intensity of hormonal imprinting depends on the phase of the cell cycle in which the primary exposure has taken place.
(14) alpha-Bungarotoxin showed no effect on either imprinting or locomotor activity.
(15) To determine the usefulness of imprint preparation for detecting hormone receptors, 214 examples of primary, recurrent, and metastatic breast cancers were studied.
(16) Changes in testosterone hydroxylase activities indicative of permanent damage (or imprinting) in androgen metabolism, i.e.
(17) Bush outdid all previous presidents in his efforts to leave a permanent imprint on government regulations long after his term had come to an end.
(18) Cytological smears were obtained by the imprint method.
(19) For a few, the psychological imprint is only now beginning to appear.
(20) The male-specific occurrence of P450IIIA2 subject to testosterone imprinting and maintenance has been proposed.