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say it: im-PRINT
imprint is a noun and verb meaning "a distinctive influence". It carries 7 recorded senses.
a concavity in a surface produced by pressing
“he left the impression of his fingers in the soft mud”
an identification of a publisher; a publisher's name along with the date and address and edition that is printed at the bottom of the title page
“the book was published under a distinguished imprint”
an impression produced by pressure or printing
a device produced by pressure on a surface
mark or stamp with or as if with pressure
“To make a batik, you impress a design with wax”
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.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for imprint come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.