| Part of Speech | Definition | |
| Verb | 1. To pull, deliver, elicit, extort or unpick.
[Eve - graph theoretic] 2. To constrain or overstrain. [Eve - graph theoretic] 3. To wrest or snatch. [Eve - graph theoretic] 4. To publish or interject. [Eve - graph theoretic] 5. To enlist or enrol. [Eve - graph theoretic] 6. To impound or enter. [Eve - graph theoretic] 7. To restrain or suppress. [Eve - graph theoretic] 8. To enroll or employ. [Eve - graph theoretic] 9. To depress or drop. [Eve - graph theoretic] 10. To express, emit or eject.[Eve - graph theoretic] | |
| Verb Present Tense | 1. Present tense conjugation of the verb impress.[Eve - graph theoretic] | |
| Verb Base (impress) | 1. Have an emotional or cognitive impact upon; "This child impressed me as unusually mature".[Wordnet]. 2. Impress positively; "The young chess player impressed her audience".[Wordnet]. 3. Produce or try to produce a vivid impression of.[Wordnet]. 4. Mark or stamp with or as if with pressure; "To make a batik, you impress a design with wax".[Wordnet]. 5. Reproduce by printing.[Wordnet]. 6. Take (someone) against his will for compulsory service, especially on board a ship.[Wordnet]. 7. Dye (fabric) before it is spun.[Wordnet]. 8. To press, stamp, or print something in or upon; to mark by pressure, or as by pressure; to imprint (that which bears the impression).[Websters]. 9. To produce by pressure, as a mark, stamp, image, etc.; to imprint (a mark or figure upon something).[Websters]. 10. Fig.: To fix deeply in the mind; to present forcibly to the attention, etc.; to imprint; to inculcate.[Websters]. 11. To be impressed; to rest.[Websters]. 12. To take by force for public service; as, to impress sailors or money.[Websters]. 13. Base verb from the following inflections: impressing, impressed, impresses, impressor, impressors, impressingly and impressedly.[Eve - graph theoretic] | |
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Date "IMPRESSES" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1548. (references) |
Specialty Definition: impress
| Domain | Definition | ||
| Noah Webster | 1: [Verb] To imprint; to stamp; to make a mark or figure on any thing by pressure; as, to impress coin with the figure of a man's head, or with that of any ox or sheep; to impress a figure on wax or clay.. | 2: [Verb] To print, as books.. | 3: [Verb] To mark; to indent.. | 4: [Verb] To fix deep; as, to impress truth on the mind, or facts on the memory. Hence, to convict of sin.. | 5: [Verb] To compel to enter into public service, as seamen; to seize and take into service by compulsion, as nurses in sickness. In this sense, we use press or impress indifferently.. Source: Webster's 1828 American Dictionary. |
| Education | The four heads are rotated in a plane that is 90 degrees with respect to the tape direction of travel. Thus the video signal is impressed on the tape as a series of nearly vertical stripes. Source: European Union. (references) | ||
| Wiktionary | 1: [Pronunciation 1] (intransitive) To make an impression, to be impressive Henderson impressed in his first game as captain. (references) | 2: [Pronunciation 1] (transitive) To affect (someone) strongly and often favourably You impressed me with your command of Urdu. (references) | 3: [Pronunciation 1] (transitive) To compel (someone) to serve in a military force The press gang used to impress people into the Navy. (references) | 4: [Pronunciation 1] (transitive) To mark or stamp (something) using pressure We impressed our footprints in the wet cement. (references) | 5: [Pronunciation 1] (transitive) To produce a vivid impression of (something) That first view of the Eiger impressed itself on my mind. (references) | 6: [Pronunciation 1] (transitive) To seize or confiscate (property) by force The liner was impressed as a troop carrier. (references) | 7: [Pronunciation 2] A stamp or seal used to make an impression. (references) | 8: [Pronunciation 2] An impression, and impressed image or copy of something 1908: We know that you were pressed for money, that you took an impress of the keys which your brother held — Arthur Conan Doyle, ‘The Adventure of the Bruce-Partington Plans' (Norton 2005, p.1330). (references) | 9: [Pronunciation 2] Something impressed. (references) | 10: [Pronunciation 2] The act of impressing. (references) |
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Common Expressions: impress
| Expressions | Definition | ||
| Impress gang | A party of men, with an officer, employed to impress seamen for ships of war; a press gang. Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary. | ||
| Impress money | A sum of money paid, immediately upon their entering service, to men who have been impressed. Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary. | ||
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Abbreviations & Acronyms: impress
| The following table is compiled from various sources, across various languages. When English abbreviations or acronyms come from a non-English source, this is noted. | ||||
| Entry | Source | Expression | Field | |
| IMPRESS | English | Implementation maintenance and promotion of the EDILIBE/EDITEUR standards sets | N/A | |
| IMP | English | Impress Metal Packaging | Engineering & Technology | |
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Topics by Level of Interest: impress | ||||
| Topics sorted by level of Interest | Level (1=low, 600=high) | Topics sorted Alphabetically | Level (1=low, 600=high) | |
| That Don't Impress Me Much | 22 | Impress | 3 | |
| OpenOffice.org Impress | 11 | Lotus Impress | 3 | |
| Impress | 3 | OpenOffice.org Impress | 11 | |
| Lotus Impress | 3 | That Don't Impress Me Much | 22 | |
Source: the editor, created by/for EVE to gauge likely levels of human interest in linguistically triggered topics (compiled across various sources, such as Wikipedia and specialty expression glosses). | ||||
