What's the difference between impression and impressionistic?
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.
Impressionistic
Definition:
(a.) Pertaining to, or characterized by, impressionism.
Example Sentences:
(1) To check on impressionistic assertions that the United States is becoming an "age-irrelevant society," a quota sample of white-collar and blue-collar men and women (ages eighteen to seventy; N = 462) was studied with a questionnaire that asked for designation of the most suitable ages for various role transitions and age-related attributes.
(2) This latest upswing in themarket for impressionist and modernist works simply represents a more cautious investment in art’s bluechip stocks and given the limited supply, we’ll no doubt see a new sale record very soon.
(3) Britain's biggest auction of Impressionist art in a decade was crowned last night when Amedeo Modigliani's Garçon à la Veste Bleu sold for more than £6m.
(4) Looking at her piles of source material and cuttings, you half expect her to announce as the old impressionist used to: “And this is me”.
(5) The Hermitage has been attempting to boost its standing in the modern art world, building upon a world-renowned collection of ancient and impressionist art housed in a complex including the tsars' winter palace.
(6) A poignant and powerful piece, m b v often bears closer comparison to abstract impressionist painters such as Mark Rothko.
(7) The right is "painterly" and the left is "superficially powerful and impressionistic".
(8) Studies of the variables that determine whether an adolescent is placed in the mental health or juvenile justice system for treatment have led to conflicting conclusions based on impressionistic data.
(9) Turner gets older and even crankier; his paintings become more proto-impressionistic; his relationships with various women and incidental men rumble on; poor old Hannah Danby gets increasingly marginalised and scabby (she suffered from a disfiguring skin disease).
(10) The EEG data were subjected to both impressionistic and quantitative analyses.
(11) In the first case we show that accessory phenotypes with higher penetrance than that of schizophrenia itself may be crucial for effective linkage analysis, and in the second case we show that impressionistic selection of informative pedigrees may be misleading.
(12) "It's meant to be a kind of visual mash-up, or an impressionistic reinterpretation of all those things.
(13) Van Gogh , one of the greatest figures in Post-Impressionist painting, worked on paper as he excitedly awaited the arrival of his artist-friend, Paul Gauguin.
(14) Having previously known little about impressionism, he had arrived in Paris in time to see the eighth (and last) impressionist exhibition.
(15) Political satire has also, in recent decades, graduated towards standup comics and impressionists, with no role for the straight frontman Frost played on his comedy shows.
(16) Data collection is separated from inference, hence the criticism that the nursing data is impressionistic and opinionated is avoided.
(17) You’ve got Rodin’s The Kiss and Rodin’s The Thinker and this is up there with them in terms of importance and recognisability ... it is such a classic.” John Berger: the dark side of Degas's ballet dancers Read more Degas first exhibited his wax figure of a young ballet dancer – one of Paris Opera Ballet’s “little rats” – dressed in real silk and tulle tutu, at the Sixth Impressionist Exhibition of 1881 in Paris.
(18) More than a century later and Petite Danseuse de Quatorze Ans is one of the most celebrated sculptures of the modern age – and it will again be in the spotlight as one of the highlights of Sotheby’s next big London impressionist and modern art sale, the auction house announced on Wednesday.
(19) "This is a market for masterpieces," said Melanie Clore of the impressionist department.
(20) At Christmas I went to department stores in Buchanan Street and bought inexpensive ornaments and prints, again not understanding – or not understanding well enough – that seeing more of me was worth any number of smoked glass decanters or pictures by the Impressionists (an unusually dreary example of which replaced FD Millet's Between Two Fires in the frame above the fireplace, until my parents, suffering it in silence for long enough, papered it over with Constable's The Hay Wain).