Impress(n.) The act of impressing or making.
Impress(n.) A mark made by pressure; an indentation; imprint; the image or figure of anything, formed by pressure or as if by pressure; result produced by pressure or influence.
Impress(n.) Characteristic; mark of distinction; stamp.
Impress(n.) A device. See Impresa.
Impress(n.) The act of impressing, or taking by force for the public service; compulsion to serve; also, that which is impressed.
Impress(n.) To take by force for public service; as, to impress sailors or money.
Impress(v. i.) To be impressed; to rest.
Impress(v. t.) To press, stamp, or print something in or upon; to mark by pressure, or as by pressure; to imprint (that which bears the impression).
Impress(v. t.) To produce by pressure, as a mark, stamp, image, etc.; to imprint (a mark or figure upon something).
Impress(v. t.) Fig.: To fix deeply in the mind; to present forcibly to the attention, etc.; to imprint; to inculcate.
Impressed(imp. & p. p.) of Impress
Impresses(pl. ) of Impress
Impressibility(n.) The quality of being impressible; susceptibility.
Impressible(a.) Capable of being impressed; susceptible; sensitive.
Impressing(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Impress
Impression(n.) The act of impressing, or the state of being impressed; the communication of a stamp, mold, style, or character, by external force or by influence.
Impression(n.) That which is impressed; stamp; mark; indentation; sensible result of an influence exerted from without.
Impression(n.) That which impresses, or exercises an effect, action, or agency; appearance; phenomenon.
Impression(n.) Influence or effect on the senses or the intellect hence, interest, concern.
Impression(n.) An indistinct notion, remembrance, or belief.
Impression(n.) Impressiveness; emphasis of delivery.
Impression(n.) The pressure of the type on the paper, or the result of such pressure, as regards its appearance; as, a heavy impression; a clear, or a poor, impression; also, a single copy as the result of printing, or the whole edition printed at a given time.
Impression(n.) In painting, the first coat of color, as the priming in house painting and the like.
Impression(n.) A print on paper from a wood block, metal plate, or the like.
Impressive(a.) Making, or tending to make, an impression; having power to impress; adapted to excite attention and feeling, to touch the sensibilities, or affect the conscience; as, an impressive discourse; an impressive scene.
Impressive(a.) Capable of being impressed.
Impressment(n.) The act of seizing for public use, or of impressing into public service; compulsion to serve; as, the impressment of provisions or of sailors.
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