imprint

American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

1. v. To produce (a mark or pattern) on a surface by pressure.
2. v. To produce a mark on (a surface) by pressure.
3. v. To impart a strong or vivid impression of: "We imprint our own ideas onto acts” ( Ellen Goodman).
4. v. To fix firmly, as in the mind: He tried to imprint the number on his memory.
5. v. To modify (a gene) by chemical means.
6. n. A mark or pattern produced by imprinting. See Synonyms at impression.
7. n. A distinguishing influence or effect: Spanish architecture that shows the imprint of Islamic rule.
8. n. A publisher's name, often with the date, address, and edition, printed at the bottom of a title page of a publication.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

1. n. An impression made by printing or stamping; hence, any impression or impressed effect.
2. n. The publisher's name, place, and date (if given) in a book or other publication, on the title-page or elsewhere (originally often at the end of a book); also, the printer's name and address: called respectively the publisher's and the printer's imprint.
3. To impress by printing or stamping; mark by pressure; stamp: as, a character or device imprinted on wax or metal.
4. To stamp, as letters and words on paper, by means of inked types; print.
5. To impress, as on the mind or memory; stamp.

Wiktionary

1. n. An impression; the mark left behind by printing something.
2. n. The name and details of a publisher or printer, as printed in a book etc.; a publishing house.
3. n. A distinctive marking, symbol or logo.
4. v. To leave a print, impression, image, etc.
5. v. To learn something indelibly at a particular stage of life, such as who one's mother is.
6. v. To mark a gene as being from a particular parent so that only one of the two copies of the gene is expressed.

GNU Webster's 1913

1. v. To impress; to mark by pressure; to indent; to stamp.
2. v. 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).
3. v. To fix indelibly or permanently, as in the mind or memory; to impress.
4. v. To create or acquire (a behavioral pattern) by the process of imprinting.
5. n. 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.

WordNet 3.0

1. v. establish or impress firmly in the mind
2. n. an impression produced by pressure or printing
3. n. a distinctive influence
4. v. mark or stamp with or as if with pressure
5. n. a device produced by pressure on a surface
6. n. a concavity in a surface produced by pressing
7. n. 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