fingerprint

1. 1.

   take an impression of a person's fingerprints

   Broaderreproduce

Other forms of fingerprint

plural

fingerprints·

past tense

fingerprinted·

present participle

fingerprinting·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about fingerprint

What does fingerprint mean?

fingerprint means "a print made by an impression of the ridges in the skin of a finger; often used for biometric identification in criminal investigations". That is the primary sense; the word has 4 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in fingerprint?

fingerprint has 3 syllables: fin-ger-print. The stress falls on "fin". In IPA it is /ˈfɪŋɡɚˌpɹɪnt/.

What is another word for fingerprint?

Close synonyms include fingermark. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is fingerprint a common word?

fingerprint is banded "Familiar" — widely understood, used when the subject calls for it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.

What rhymes with fingerprint?

6 words rhyme with fingerprint. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.