The difference between Impress and Sequester
When used as nouns, impress means the act of impressing, whereas sequester means sequestration.
When used as verbs, impress means to affect (someone) strongly and often favourably, whereas sequester means to separate from all external influence.
check bellow for the other definitions of Impress and Sequester
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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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Sequester as a verb:
To separate from all external influence; to seclude; to withdraw.
Examples:
"The jury was sequestered from the press by the judge's order."
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Sequester as a verb:
To separate in order to store.
Examples:
"The coal burning plant was ordered to sequester its CO<sub>2</sub> emissions."
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Sequester as a verb:
To set apart; to put aside; to remove; to separate from other things.
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Sequester as a verb (chemistry):
To prevent an ion in solution from behaving normally by forming a coordination compound
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Sequester as a verb (legal):
To temporarily remove (property) from the possession of its owner and hold it as security against legal claims.
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Sequester as a verb:
To cause (one) to submit to the process of sequestration; to deprive (one) of one's estate, property, etc.
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Sequester as a verb (transitive, US, politics, legal):
To remove (certain funds) automatically from a budget.
Examples:
"The Budget Control Act of 2011 sequestered 1.2 trillion dollars over 10 years on January 2, 2013."
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Sequester as a verb (international, _, legal):
To seize and hold enemy property.
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Sequester as a verb (intransitive):
To withdraw; to retire.
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Sequester as a verb:
To renounce (as a widow may) any concern with the estate of her husband.
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Sequester as a noun:
sequestration; separation
Examples:
"rfquotek Shakespeare"
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Sequester as a noun (legal):
A person with whom two or more contending parties deposit the subject matter of the controversy; one who mediates between two parties; a referee.
Examples:
"rfquotek Bouvier"
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Sequester as a noun (medicine):
A sequestrum.