The difference between Impress and Print
When used as nouns, impress means the act of impressing, whereas print means books and other material created by printing presses, considered collectively or as a medium.
When used as verbs, impress means to affect (someone) strongly and often favourably, whereas print means to produce one or more copies of a text or image on a surface, especially by machine.
Print is also adjective with the meaning: of, relating to, or writing for printed publications.
check bellow for the other definitions of Impress and Print
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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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Print as an adjective:
Of, relating to, or writing for printed publications.
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Print as a verb (transitive):
To produce one or more copies of a text or image on a surface, especially by machine; often used with out or off: print out, print off.
Examples:
"Print the draft double-spaced so we can mark changes between the lines."
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Print as a verb:
To produce a microchip (an integrated circuit) in a process resembling the printing of an image.
Examples:
"The circuitry is printed onto the semiconductor surface."
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Print as a verb (ambitransitive):
To write very clearly, especially, to write without connecting the letters as in cursive.
Examples:
"Print your name here and sign below."
"I'm only in grade 2, so I only know how to print."
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Print as a verb (ambitransitive):
To publish in a book, newspaper, etc.
Examples:
"How could they print an unfounded rumour like that?"
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Print as a verb (transitive):
To stamp or impress (something) with coloured figures or patterns.
Examples:
"to print calico"
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Print as a verb (transitive):
To fix or impress, as a stamp, mark, character, idea, etc., into or upon something.
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Print as a verb (transitive):
To stamp something in or upon; to make an impression or mark upon by pressure, or as by pressure.
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Print as a verb (computing, transitive):
To display a string on the terminal.
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Print as a noun (uncountable):
Books and other material created by printing presses, considered collectively or as a medium.
Examples:
"Three citations are required for each meaning, including one in print."
"TV and the internet haven't killed print."
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Print as a noun (uncountable):
Clear handwriting, especially, writing without connected letters as in cursive.
Examples:
"Write in print using block letters."
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Print as a noun (uncountable):
The letters forming the text of a document.
Examples:
"The print is too small for me to read."
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Print as a noun:
A visible impression on a surface.
Examples:
"Using a crayon, the girl made a print of the leaf under the page."
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Print as a noun:
A fingerprint.
Examples:
"Did the police find any prints at the scene?"
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Print as a noun:
A footprint.
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Print as a noun (visual art):
A picture that was created in multiple copies by printing.
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Print as a noun (photography):
A photograph that has been printed onto paper from the negative.
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Print as a noun (motion pictures):
A copy of a film that can be projected.
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Print as a noun:
Cloth that has had a pattern of dye printed onto it.