impression
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: arts
crafts
engraving
hobbies
human-sciences
lifestyle
media
philosophy
printing
publishing
sciences
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *h₁én
Proto-Italic *en
Proto-Italic *en-
Latin in-
Proto-Indo-European *per-?
Proto-Indo-European *pres-der.
Proto-Italic *pres-
Latin premō
Latin imprimō
Proto-Indo-European *-tis
Proto-Indo-European *-Hō
Proto-Indo-European *-tiHō
Proto-Italic *-tiō
Latin -tiō
Latin impressiōder.
Old French impressionder.
English impression
From Old French impression, from Latin impressio. Equivalent to impress + -ion.
Base: impress
Affixes: -ion
Inflected forms:
form: impressions
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: impressions
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: impressioning
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: impressioned
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: impressioned
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: The indentation or depression made by the pressure of one object on or into another.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: His head made an impression on the pillow.
gloss: The overall effect of something, e.g., on a person.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: He tried to make a good impression on his parents.
Their empires, triumphs, conquests, and projects, have left little impression behind them, notwithstanding the attention they once attracted, and the violent convulsions which they caused in the state of the world.
The stories did not seem to me to touch life. […] They left me with the impression of a well-delivered stereopticon lecture, with characters about as life-like as the shadows on the screen, and whisking on and off, at the mercy of the operator.
Though most of the cases here cover European encounters with non-Europeans, it is not the intention of the book to give the impression that genocide is a function of European colonialism and imperialism alone.
gloss: A vague recalling of an event, a belief.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: I have the impression that he's already left for Paris.
gloss: An impersonation, an imitation of the mannerisms of another person.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: An outward appearance.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: A performance metric representing an instance where a post or ad is shown once.
pos: noun
tags: Internet
countable
uncountable
examples: Publishers are paid for each ad impression their site generates.
gloss: The first coat of colour, such as the priming in house-painting etc.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: A print on paper from a wood block, metal plate, etc.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: The vivid perception of something as it is experienced, in contrast to ideas or thoughts drawn from memory or the imagination.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: Let us, therefore, use a little freedom, and call them Impressions; employing that word in a sense somewhat different from the usual. By the term impression, then, I mean all our more lively perceptions, when we hear, or see, or feel, or love, or hate, or desire, or will. And impressions are distinguished from ideas, which are the less lively perceptions, of which we are conscious, when we reflect on any of those sensations or movements above mentioned.
gloss: set of copies of a publication printed at one time having the same content, layout, pagination, etc.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: To manipulate a blank key within a lock so as to mark it with impressions of the shape of the lock, which facilitates creation of a duplicate key.
pos: verb
examples: The trick in impressioning a key is to remove only a small amount of the blank, by filing or cutting, from the pin positions where impressions have been left.
Related words: impress
impressive
Derived words: afterimpression
after-impression
artist's impression
first impression
impressionability
impressionable
impressional
impressioner
impressionism
impressionist
impressionistic
impressionless
impressive
make an impression
maternal impression
misimpression
present sense impression
reimpression
sulfur impression
sulphur impression
trial impression
under the impression
unimpression
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