Sekirov Dictionary

impress

/ɪmˈpɹɛs/

verb 10
/ˈɪmpɹɛs/ noun 7
forms 6

verb10

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to make someone think very well of someone or something
- You impressed me with your command of Urdu.
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To make an impression; to be impressive; to arouse interest or favor.
- Henderson impressed in his first game as captain.
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[with oneself] (figurative) To produce a vivid impression of (something); to convince someone of one's nature.
- That first view of the Eiger impressed itself on my mind.
- I will impress the schedule upon her.
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(figurative) To fix deeply in the mind; to present forcibly to the attention, etc.; to cause someone to understand and accept something.
- You have to impress the new vocabulary into your mind.
- She is impressing the rules onto the students.
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To mark or stamp (something) using pressure; to apply (something) using pressure.
- We impressed our footprints in the wet cement.
- Then he impresses the die into the clay to produce a design on the surface.
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To produce (a mark, stamp, image, etc.); to imprint (a mark or figure upon something).
- He impressed his signature into the wax.
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To compel (someone) to serve in a military force.
- The press gang used to impress people into the Navy.
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(historical) To seize or confiscate (property) by force, especially for military use.
- The liner was impressed as a troop carrier.
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To transfer or transmit.
- The money was impressed into the hands of the financial ministry.
- His actions impress a message of selfishness to us all.
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To transfer voltage onto metalwork through induced or capacitative processes.
- This process will impress voltage into the metal.

impress

/ˈɪmpɹɛs/

noun7

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An impression; an impressed image or copy of something.
- This weak impress of love is as a figure / Trenched in ice. — 1590
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An impression on the mind, imagination etc.
- Such admonitions, in the English of the Authorized Version, left an indelible impress on imaginations nurtured on the Bible […] — 2007
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Characteristic; mark of distinction; stamp.
- we have God surveying the works of the creation, and leaving this general impress or character upon them — 1692
The act of impressing.
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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? — 1599
A stamp or seal used to make an impression.
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A heraldic device; an impresa.
- It commonly occurred that Knights who , on entering the Lists , wished to conceal their identity , would assume a Device with an allusive Motto , which was designated an IMPRESS — 1869

forms

impressed · impresst · impressing · impresses · impresseth · impressest

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