imprint

  1. Noun.  An impression; the mark left behind by printing something.
  2. Noun.  The name and details of a publisher or printer, as printed in a book etc.; a publishing house.
  3. Noun.  A distinctive marking, symbol or logo.
  4. Verb.  To leave a print, impression, image, etc.
  5. Verb.  To learn something indelibly at a particular stage of life, such as who one's mother is.
  6. Verb.  To mark a gene as being from a particular parent so that only one of the two copies of the gene is expressed.

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