| Part of Speech | Definition | |
| Verb | 1. To strike, broach or shoot.[Eve - graph theoretic] 2. Present participle 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 "IMPRESSING" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1615. (references) |
Specialty Definition: IMPRESSING
| Domain | Definition | ||
| Noah Webster | [Verb] Imprinting; stamping; fixing in the mind; compelling into service.. Source: Webster's 1828 American Dictionary. | ||
| Wiktionary | [Verb] Present participle of impress. (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 | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | Top | |||
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). | ||||
