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Imprinting

verb
Word Frequency: 0.6

Definitions

1.verbTo leave a print, impression, image, etc.
"For a fee, they can imprint the envelopes with a monogram."
2.verbTo learn something indelibly at a particular stage of life, such as who one's parents are.
3.verbTo mark a gene as being from a particular parent so that only one of the two copies of the gene is expressed.
4.nounAny kind of phase-sensitive learning (learning occurring at a particular age or a particular life stage) that is rapid and apparently independent of the consequences of behavior.

Synonyms

impressionembossmentformimpressdepressionimpregnationfingerprintingfootprintprintingprintperceptionfeeling

Rhymes With

beginningunderpinninggrinningsprintingspinningglintinghintingsquinting
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