Impress vs. Print: What's the Difference?
Impress and Print Definitions
Impress
To affect strongly, often favorably
Wrote down whatever impressed me during the journey.
Was impressed by the child's sincerity.
A mark or impression made in or on a surface by pressure
The print of footsteps in the sand.
Impress
To produce or attempt to produce a vivid impression or image of
A scene that impressed itself on her memory.
Parents that impress the value of money on their children.
A fingerprint.
Impress
To mark or stamp with pressure
Impressed the wax with a design.
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A device or implement, such as a stamp, die, or seal, used to press markings onto or into a surface
Fancy letters made by hand-carved prints.
Impress
To apply with pressure; press
Impressed the stamp onto the wax.
Something formed or marked by such a device.
Impress
To compel (a person) to serve in the military, particularly in the naval forces, especially by seizure.
Text, lettering, or other marks produced in ink from type as by a printing press or from digital fonts by an electronic printer
Needed glasses to read the print.
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Impress
To seize (property) by force or authority, especially for military purposes; confiscate.
Printed state or form
A short story that never got into print.
Impress
(Law) To impose a constructive trust or a lien upon property, as a matter of equity, to protect a person without legal title but with a legally recognized interest.
A printed publication or edition of a text; a printing
The first print of that book has sold out.
Impress
The act of impressing
A design left by impress of a seal.
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A design or picture transferred from an engraved plate, wood block, lithographic stone, or other medium
Had prints of flowers hanging on the walls.
Impress
A mark or pattern of influence produced by someone or something; an impression
A politician who left her impress on foreign policy.
A photographic image transferred to paper or a similar surface.
Impress
A stamp or seal meant to be impressed.
A copy of a movie made on film or in a high resolution digital format, as for public exhibition.
Impress
Impressment.
A fabric or garment with a dyed pattern that has been pressed onto it, usually by engraved rollers.
Impress
(transitive) To affect (someone) strongly and often favourably.
You impressed me with your command of Urdu.
The pattern itself
A blouse with a paisley print.
Impress
(intransitive) To make an impression, to be impressive.
Henderson impressed in his first game as captain.
To press (a mark or design, for example) onto or into a surface
Tracks that were printed in the snow.
Impress
(transitive) To produce a vivid impression of (something).
That first view of the Eiger impressed itself on my mind.
To make an impression on or in (a surface) with a device such as a stamp, seal, or die.
Impress
(transitive) To mark or stamp (something) using pressure.
We impressed our footprints in the wet cement.
To press (something, such as a stamp) onto or into a surface to leave a marking.
Impress
To produce (a mark, stamp, image, etc.); to imprint (a mark or figure upon something).
To produce by means of pressed type, an electronic printer, or similar means, on a paper surface
Printed more copies of the ad.
Impress
(figurative) To fix deeply in the mind; to present forcibly to the attention, etc.; to imprint; to inculcate.
To offer in printed form; publish
The publisher collected the essays and printed them as a book.
Impress
(transitive) To compel (someone) to serve in a military force.
The press gang used to impress people into the Navy.
To reproduce (a digital document or image) on a paper surface
Printed the email.
Impress
(transitive) To seize or confiscate (property) by force.
The liner was impressed as a troop carrier.
To convert (a digital document) into a file format designed for publication.
Impress
The act of impressing.
To write (something) in characters similar to those commonly used in print.
Impress
An impression; an impressed image or copy of something.
To impress firmly in the mind or memory
An experience that will be printed in our hearts forever.
Impress
A stamp or seal used to make an impression.
To produce a photographic image from (a negative, for example) by passing light through film onto a photosensitive surface, especially sensitized paper.
Impress
An impression on the mind, imagination etc.
To produce (an electronic component) by mechanically transferring a circuit or circuit pattern onto a nonconductive surface.
Impress
Characteristic; mark of distinction; stamp.
To fabricate (an object) by means of a 3D printer.
Impress
A heraldic device; an impresa.
To work as a printer.
Impress
The act of impressing, or taking by force for the public service; compulsion to serve; also, that which is impressed.
To produce something in printed form by means of a printing press or other reproduction process.
Impress
To press, stamp, or print something in or upon; to mark by pressure, or as by pressure; to imprint (that which bears the impression).
His heart, like an agate, with your print impressed.
To write characters similar to those commonly used in print.
Impress
To produce by pressure, as a mark, stamp, image, etc.; to imprint (a mark or figure upon something).
To produce or receive an impression, marking, or image
The negative printed poorly.
Impress
To fix deeply in the mind; to present forcibly to the attention, etc.; to imprint; to inculcate.
Impress the motives of persuasion upon our own hearts till we feel the force of them.
Published or reproduced by printing, especially in contrast to electronic publication
A print newsletter.
Impress
To take by force for public service; as, to impress sailors or money.
The second five thousand pounds impressed for the service of the sick and wounded prisoners.
Relating to or involved in media based on printing, especially newspapers and magazines
A print journalist.
Impress
To be impressed; to rest.
Such fiendly thoughts in his heart impress.
Of, relating to, or writing for printed publications.
A print edition of a book
Impress
The act of impressing or making.
(transitive) To produce one or more copies of a text or image on a surface, especially by machine; often used with out or off: print out, print off.
Print the draft double-spaced so we can mark changes between the lines.
Impress
A mark made by pressure; an indentation; imprint; the image or figure of anything, formed by pressure or as if by pressure; result produced by pressure or influence.
The impresses of the insides of these shells.
This weak impress of love is as a figureTrenched in ice.
To produce a microchip (an integrated circuit) in a process resembling the printing of an image.
The circuitry is printed onto the semiconductor surface.
Impress
Characteristic; mark of distinction; stamp.
(ambitransitive) To write very clearly, especially, to write without connecting the letters as in cursive.
Print your name here and sign below.
I'm only in grade 2, so I only know how to print.
Impress
A device. See Impresa.
To describe . . . emblazoned shields,Impresses quaint.
(ambitransitive) To publish in a book, newspaper, etc.
How could they print an unfounded rumour like that?
Impress
The act of impressing, or taking by force for the public service; compulsion to serve; also, that which is impressed.
Why such impress of shipwrights?
(transitive) To stamp or impress (something) with coloured figures or patterns.
To print calico
Impress
The act of coercing someone into government service
(transitive) To fix or impress, as a stamp, mark, character, idea, etc., into or upon something.
Impress
Have an emotional or cognitive impact upon;
This child impressed me as unusually mature
This behavior struck me as odd
(transitive) To stamp something in or upon; to make an impression or mark upon by pressure, or as by pressure.
Impress
Impress positively;
The young chess player impressed her audience
To display a string on the terminal.
Impress
Produce or try to produce a vivid impression of;
Mother tried to ingrain respect for our elders in us
To produce an observable value.
On March 16, 2020, the S&P printed at 2,386.13, one of the worst drops in history.
Impress
Mark or stamp with or as if with pressure;
To make a batik, you impress a design with wax
(transitive) To fingerprint (a person).
Impress
Reproduce by printing
(uncountable) Books and other material created by printing presses, considered collectively or as a medium.
Three citations are required for each meaning, including one in print.
TV and the Internet haven't killed print.
Impress
Take (someone) against his will for compulsory service, especially on board a ship;
The men were shanghaied after being drugged
(uncountable) Clear handwriting, especially, writing without connected letters as in cursive.
Write in print using block letters.
Impress
Dye (fabric) before it is spun
(uncountable) The letters forming the text of a document.
The print is too small for me to read.
(countable) A newspaper.
A visible impression on a surface.
Using a crayon, the girl made a print of the leaf under the page.
A fingerprint.
Did the police find any prints at the scene?
A footprint.
(visual art) A picture that was created in multiple copies by printing.
(photography) A photograph that has been printed onto paper from the negative.
(film) A copy of a film that can be projected.
Cloth that has had a pattern of dye printed onto it.
(architecture) A plaster cast in bas relief.
To fix or impress, as a stamp, mark, character, idea, etc., into or upon something.
A look will print a thought that never may remove.
Upon his breastplate he beholds a dint,Which in that field young Edward's sword did print.
Perhaps some footsteps printed in the clay.
To stamp something in or upon; to make an impression or mark upon by pressure, or as by pressure.
Forth on his fiery steed betimes he rode,That scarcely prints the turf on which he trod.
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.
To stamp or impress with colored figures or patterns; as, to print calico.
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.
To use or practice the art of typography; to take impressions of letters, figures, or electrotypes, engraved plates, or the like.
To publish a book or an article.
From the moment he prints, he must except to hear no more truth.
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.
Where print of human feet was never seen.
A stamp or die for molding or impressing an ornamental design upon an object; as, a butter print.
That which receives an impression, as from a stamp or mold; as, a print of butter.
Printed letters; the impression taken from type, as to excellence, form, size, etc.; as, small print; large print; this line is in print.
That which is produced by printing.
A core print. See under Core.
The result of the printing process;
I want to see it in black and white
A picture or design printed from an engraving
A visible indication made on a surface;
Some previous reader had covered the pages with dozens of marks
Paw prints were everywhere
A copy of a movie on film (especially a particular version of it)
A fabric with a dyed pattern pressed onto it (usually by engraved rollers)
A printed picture produced from a photographic negative
Put into print;
The newspaper published the news of the royal couple's divorce
These news should not be printed
Write as if with print; not cursive
Make into a print;
Print the negative
Reproduce by printing
