The difference between Impress and Imprint
When used as nouns, impress means the act of impressing, whereas imprint means an impression.
When used as verbs, impress means to affect (someone) strongly and often favourably, whereas imprint means to leave a print, impression, image, etc.
check bellow for the other definitions of Impress and Imprint
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Impress as a verb (transitive):
To affect (someone) strongly and often favourably.
Examples:
"You impressed me with your command of Urdu."
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Impress as a verb (intransitive):
To make an impression, to be impressive.
Examples:
"Henderson impressed in his first game as captain."
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Impress as a verb (transitive):
To produce a vivid impression of (something).
Examples:
"That first view of the Eiger impressed itself on my mind."
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Impress as a verb (transitive):
To mark or stamp (something) using pressure.
Examples:
"We impressed our footprints in the wet cement."
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Impress as a verb:
To produce (a mark, stamp, image, etc.); to imprint (a mark or figure upon something).
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Impress as a verb (figurative):
To fix deeply in the mind; to present forcibly to the attention, etc.; to imprint; to inculcate.
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Impress as a verb (transitive):
To compel (someone) to serve in a military force.
Examples:
"The press gang used to impress people into the Navy."
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Impress as a verb (transitive):
To seize or confiscate (property) by force.
Examples:
"The liner was impressed as a troop carrier."
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Impress as a noun:
The act of impressing.
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Impress as a noun:
An impression; an impressed image or copy of something.
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Impress as a noun:
A stamp or seal used to make an impression.
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Impress as a noun:
An impression on the mind, imagination etc.
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Impress as a noun:
Characteristic; mark of distinction; stamp.
Examples:
"rfquotek South"
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Impress as a noun:
A heraldic device; an impresa.
Examples:
"rfquotek Cussans"
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Impress as a noun:
The act of impressing, or taking by force for the public service; compulsion to serve; also, that which is impressed.
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Imprint as a noun:
An impression; the mark left behind by printing something.
Examples:
"The day left an imprint in my mind."
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Imprint as a noun:
The name and details of a publisher or printer, as printed in a book etc.; a publishing house.
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Imprint as a noun:
A distinctive marking, symbol or logo.
Examples:
"The shirts bore the company imprint on the right sleeve."
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Imprint as a verb:
To leave a print, impression, image, etc.
Examples:
"For a fee, they can imprint the envelopes with a monogram."
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Imprint as a verb:
To learn something indelibly at a particular stage of life, such as who one's parents are.
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Imprint as a verb:
To mark a gene as being from a particular parent so that only one of the two copies of the gene is expressed.