impress

v. affect strongly; have a strong positive effect on a person's feelings; make an impression; cause favorable admiration; emphasize; stamp, imprint, make a mark using pressure; stir up interest to oneself

n. act of affecting strongly; impression, imprint; stamping, stamp used to make a mark using pressure

Impress or Impression may have several meanings:OpenOffice.org Impress, a presentation program included in the OpenOffice.org office suite.OfficeMax ImPress Print & Document Services, a division of OfficeMax, Inc. specializing in the pay-for-print industryImpressment is the act of conscripting people to serve as sailors.Impression seal, a type of accent seal.Impression, Sunrise, a painting by Claude Monet.Cost Per Impression, a term used in online marketing for measuring the worth and cost of a specific e-marketing campaign.Case of first impression, a case or controversy over an interpretation of law never before reported or decided by that court.Present sense impression, in the law of evidence, is a statement made by a person that conveys their sense of the state of certain things at the time the person was perceiving the event, or immediately thereafter.Maternal impression, an obsolete scientific theory that explained the existence of birth defects and congenital disorders.Big Impression, a British comedy sketch show.Impression (Dragonriders of Pern), a joining of the minds in the Dragonriders of Pern fictional universe.
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Noun
1. the act of coercing someone into government service
(synonym) impressment
(hypernym) seizure
(derivation) shanghai
Verb
1. have an emotional or cognitive impact upon; "This child impressed me as unusually mature"; "This behavior struck me as odd"
(synonym) affect, move, strike
(hyponym) infect
(cause) feel, experience
(verb-group) hit, strike, come to
2. impress positively; "The young chess player impressed her audience"
(hypernym) affect, move, strike
(hyponym) prepossess
3. produce or try to produce a vivid impression of; "Mother tried to ingrain respect for our elders in us"
(synonym) ingrain, instill
(hypernym) affect, move, strike
4. mark or stamp with or as if with pressure; "To make a batik, you impress a design with wax"
(synonym) imprint
(hypernym) change surface
(hyponym) stamp
(entail) press
(derivation) impression
5. reproduce by printing
(synonym) print
(hypernym) write
(hyponym) letter
6. take (someone) against his will for compulsory service, especially on board a ship; "The men were shanghaied after being drugged"
(synonym) shanghai
(hypernym) kidnap, nobble, abduct, snatch
(derivation) impressment
(classification) crime, law-breaking
7. dye (fabric) before it is spun
(synonym) yarn-dye
(hypernym) dye

(v. t.)
To produce by pressure, as a mark, stamp, image, etc.; to imprint (a mark or figure upon something).
  

(v. t.)
To press, stamp, or print something in or upon; to mark by pressure, or as by pressure; to imprint (that which bears the impression).
  

(v. t.)
Fig.: To fix deeply in the mind; to present forcibly to the attention, etc.; to imprint; to inculcate.
  

(v. i.)
To be impressed; to rest.
  

(n.)
To take by force for public service; as, to impress sailors or money.
  

(n.)
The act of impressing, or taking by force for the public service; compulsion to serve; also, that which is impressed.
  

(n.)
The act of impressing or making.
  

(n.)
Characteristic; mark of distinction; stamp.
  

(n.)
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.
  

(n.)
A device. See Impresa.
  

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