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Imprimatur


Definition:

  • (n.) A license to print or publish a book, paper, etc.; also, in countries subjected to the censorship of the press, approval of that which is published.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Its introduction had caused a huge stir: it was the first time Jonathan Ive , formerly in charge of hardware design at Apple, had given his imprimatur to software.
  • (2) However, the report does put an official imprimatur on some aspects of the disaster that have been unofficially surmised up to now, and fills in some of the details of the last minutes of MH17.
  • (3) The general's leather flight jacket from the second world war (less often worn than the jacket whose style still carries the Eisenhower imprimatur), his 1953 Bausch and Lomb binoculars, and his gold Rolex watch – the 150,000th ever made and presented to him by the company in 1951 – are also up for sale.
  • (4) In particular, Alston has given the UN's imprimatur to the authenticity of video footage apparently showing summary executions of prisoners in January 2009 in the final stages of the civil war.
  • (5) "We are careful not to allow it to be seen as seeking the [prince's] imprimatur."
  • (6) The result is that many of Trump’s cabinet picks bear the imprimatur of the Republican party and the conservative movement.
  • (7) The uniquely parsimonious approach to treatment of end-stage renal disease patients in the U.K. was initially developed under the imprimatur of the nation's medical elite and sanctioned by the central government.
  • (8) The British Museum seems symbolically apt, and the idea already has the imprimatur of the thinktank Civitas, which proposed that the museum could head north along with the Royal Opera House and the House of Lords .
  • (9) It was a crucial semantic shift: the “illegal” construction gave the government the imprimatur, almost the obligation, to enact more punitive policies against asylum seekers.
  • (10) But the report concludes: "It will be a tough challenge to attract the Scotsie 100 companies away from the large liquid international London exchange on which they are already listed along with their FTSE imprimatur.
  • (11) McDonnell was charged with accepting over $177,000 in gifts and loans from Star Scientific Inc CEO Johnnie Williams, but he repaid over $124,000, and his defense has offered a lot to distract from the idea that Williams expected McDonnell to dispense his dietary supplement Anatabloc to state employees – or at least to give it some official government imprimatur.
  • (12) At particular issue are undisclosed legal memorandums, written in secret at the Justice Department, that gave torture the imprimatur of legality.
  • (13) There never should have been any limitations on people of the same sex having contracts, but I do object to the state putting its imprimatur to the specialness of marriage on something that’s different from what most people have defined as marriage for most of history,” Paul told Boston Herald radio.
  • (14) John Osborne: a natural dissenter who changed the face of British theatre Read more Even with the imprimatur of Tynan and Hobson, the play was not an instant hit.
  • (15) The dismantling of the Iraqi army, de-Ba’athification and the Anglo-American imprimatur to Shia supremacism provoked the formation in Mesopotamia of al-Qaida, Isis’s precursor .
  • (16) A Penguin editor suggested turning it into a book and, no doubt mindful of what a ministerial imprimatur might do for sales, put her in touch with Gove and Steve Hilton, David Cameron's aide.
  • (17) His death could be detrimental to peace talks, Gopal said, “because Mullah Omar’s imprimatur was important in getting people to the table.” He added: “This could actually hasten the fragmentation of the Taliban, though it’s too early to say.” The announcement also comes at a time when Pakistan has put rare pressure on the Taliban to accept Ghani’s offer to restart peace talks.
  • (18) When I was a minister, I would never have countenanced my chief of staff going to such a meeting without my imprimatur and my approval so I think a question does need to be answered whether the chief of staff was there on a frolic of his own or with the imprimatur of the deputy leader.
  • (19) Many of the abuses in Russia – against gay rights, against the environment, against animals – came after the Olympic contract, almost as if Russian leaders were emboldened by the Olympic imprimatur and financing to not only continue abuses, but create new ones.
  • (20) The Chinese factory workers sewing Chanel handbags can make the same bags, after hours, but they'll be low-rent knockoffs without the interlocking "C"s. The same goes for an assistant who painted, without the master's imprimatur, Damien Hirst's dots.

Print


Definition:

  • (v. t.) To fix or impress, as a stamp, mark, character, idea, etc., into or upon something.
  • (v. t.) To stamp something in or upon; to make an impression or mark upon by pressure, or as by pressure.
  • (v. t.) To strike off an impression or impressions of, from type, or from stereotype, electrotype, or engraved plates, or the like; in a wider sense, to do the typesetting, presswork, etc., of (a book or other publication); as, to print books, newspapers, pictures; to print an edition of a book.
  • (v. t.) To stamp or impress with colored figures or patterns; as, to print calico.
  • (v. t.) To take (a copy, a positive picture, etc.), from a negative, a transparent drawing, or the like, by the action of light upon a sensitized surface.
  • (v. i.) To use or practice the art of typography; to take impressions of letters, figures, or electrotypes, engraved plates, or the like.
  • (v. i.) To publish a book or an article.
  • (n.) A mark made by impression; a line, character, figure, or indentation, made by the pressure of one thing on another; as, the print of teeth or nails in flesh; the print of the foot in sand or snow.
  • (n.) A stamp or die for molding or impressing an ornamental design upon an object; as, a butter print.
  • (n.) That which receives an impression, as from a stamp or mold; as, a print of butter.
  • (n.) Printed letters; the impression taken from type, as to excellence, form, size, etc.; as, small print; large print; this line is in print.
  • (n.) That which is produced by printing.
  • (n.) An impression taken from anything, as from an engraved plate.
  • (n.) A printed publication, more especially a newspaper or other periodical.
  • (n.) A printed cloth; a fabric figured by stamping, especially calico or cotton cloth.
  • (n.) A photographic copy, or positive picture, on prepared paper, as from a negative, or from a drawing on transparent paper.
  • (n.) A core print. See under Core.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The small print revealed that Osborne claimed a fall in borrowing largely by factoring in the proceeds of a 4G telecomms auction that has not yet happened.
  • (2) When very large series of strains are considered, the coding can be completely done and printed out by any computer through a very simple program.
  • (3) A combined plot of all results from the four separate papers, which is ordered alphabetically by chemical, is available from L. S. Gold, in printed form or on computer tape or diskette.
  • (4) "We were very disappointed when the DH decided to suspend printing Reduce the Risk, a vital resource in the prevention of cot death in the UK", said Francine Bates, chief executive of the Foundation for the Study of Infant Deaths, which helped produce the booklet.
  • (5) How does it stack up against the competition – and are there any nasties in the small print?
  • (6) A wide range of development possibilities for the printed circuit microelectrode are discussed.
  • (7) Because while some of these alt-currencies show promise, many aren't worth the paper they're not printed on.
  • (8) This week they are wrestling with the difficult issue of how prisoners can order clothes for themselves now that clothing companies are discontinuing their printed catalogues and moving online.
  • (9) These letters are also written during a period when Joyce was still smarting from the publishing difficulties of his earlier works Dubliners and A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man.” Gordon Bowker, Joyce’s biographer, agreed: “Joyce’s problem with the UK printers related to the fact that here in those days printers were as much at risk of prosecution on charges of publishing obscenities as were publishers, and would simply refuse to print them.
  • (10) In the 1980s when she began, no newspaper would even print the words 'breast cancer'.
  • (11) Information and titles for this bibliography were gleaned from printed indexes and university medical center libraries.
  • (12) Subscribers to the paper's print and digital editions also now contribute to half the volume of its total sales.
  • (13) A microcomputer system is described for the collection, analysis and printing of the physiological data gathered during a urodynamic investigation.
  • (14) Many other innovations are also being hailed as the future of food, from fake chicken to 3D printing and from algae to lab-grown meat.
  • (15) The four are the spoken language, the written language, the printing press and the electronic computer.
  • (16) Comparison of these tracks and the Hadar hominid foot fossils by Tuttle has led him to conclude that Australopithecus afarensis did not make the Tanzanian prints and that a more derived form of hominid is therefore indicated at Laetoli.
  • (17) The conversation between the two men, printed in Monday's edition of Wprost news magazine , reveals the extent of the fallout between Poland and the UK over Cameron's proposals to change EU migrants' access to benefits.
  • (18) Brand names would instead be printed in small type and feature large health warnings and gruesome, full-colour images of the consequences of smoking.
  • (19) An interactive image-processing workstation enables rapid image retrieval, reduces the examination repeat rate, provides for image enhancement, and rapidly sets the desired display parameters for laser-printed images.
  • (20) But printing money year after year to pay for things you can’t afford doesn’t work – and no good Keynesian would ever call for it.

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