Impression

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  • noun. An effect, feeling, or image retained as a consequence of experience.
  • noun. A vague notion, remembrance, or belief.
  • noun. A mark produced on a surface by pressure.
  • noun. The act or process of impressing.
  • noun. undefined
  • noun. All the copies of a publication printed at one time from the same set of type.
  • noun. A single copy of such a printing.
  • noun. A humorous imitation of the voice and mannerisms of a famous person.
  • noun. An initial or single coat of color or paint.
  • noun. An imprint of the teeth and surrounding tissues, formed with a plastic material that hardens into a mold for use in making dentures, inlays, or plastic models.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • noun. Any method of psychological analysis which involves the presentation of stimuli to the observer and the recording of his introspective judgments.
  • noun. More particularly, a method for the study of the affective processes, consisting in the presentation to the observer of a large number of stimuli, serially or in pairs, and in the recording of the affective judgments, absolute or relative, passed upon these presented stimuli: opposed, in this sense, to the method of expression.
  • noun. The act of impressing, imprinting, or stamping, or the state of being impressed or stamped.
  • noun. That which is impressed, imprinted, or stamped; a mark made by or as if by pressure; a stamp; an impress.
  • noun. Specifically In printing, a copy taken by pressure from type, or from an engraved or stereotyped plate or block, or from an assemblage of them.
  • noun. The aggregate of copies of a printed work made at one time.
  • noun. Animage; an appearance in the mind caused by something external to it.
  • noun. The first and immediate effect upon the mind in outward or inward perception; sensation: as, the impressions made on the sense of touch.
  • noun. Effect, especially strong effect, produced on the intellect, conscience, or feelings; the sensible result of an influence exerted from without.
  • noun. A notion, remembrance, or belief, especially one that is somewhat indistinct or vague.
  • noun. That which is impressed; a thing producing a mental image.
  • noun. Impressing force or power.
  • noun. In painting: The first coat, or ground color, laid on to receive the other colors.
  • noun. A single coat or stratum of color laid upon a wall or wainscot of an apartment for ornament, or upon timber to preserve it from moisture, or upon metals to keep them from rusting.
  • noun. In zoology, an impressed or sunken dot, short line, or small space on a surface.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • noun. 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.
  • noun. That which is impressed; stamp; mark; indentation; sensible result of an influence exerted from without.
  • noun. That which impresses, or exercises an effect, action, or agency; appearance; phenomenon.
  • noun. Influence or effect on the senses or the intellect hence, interest, concern.
  • noun. An indistinct notion, remembrance, or belief.
  • noun. Impressiveness; emphasis of delivery.
  • noun. The pressure of the type on the paper, or the result of such pressure, as regards its appearance; ; also, a single copy as the result of printing, or the whole edition printed at a given time.
  • noun. In painting, the first coat of color, as the priming in house painting and the like.
  • noun. A print on paper from a wood block, metal plate, or the like.
  • noun. one of the early impressions taken from an engraving, before the plate or block is worn.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • noun. The indentation or depression made by the pressure of one object on or into another.
  • noun. The overall effect of something, e.g., on a person.
  • noun. A vague recalling of an event, a belief
  • noun. An impersonation, an imitation of the mannerisms of another individual
  • noun. An outward appearance
  • noun. An online advertising performance metric representing an instance where an ad is shown once
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • noun. all the copies of a work printed at one time
  • noun. a vague idea in which some confidence is placed
  • noun. a clear and telling mental image
  • noun. an impressionistic portrayal of a person
  • noun. a symbol that is the result of printing or engraving
  • noun. a concavity in a surface produced by pressing
  • noun. an outward appearance
  • noun. the act of pressing one thing on or into the surface of another
  • noun. (dentistry) an imprint of the teeth and gums in wax or plaster
  • Word Usage
    "And Sextus reports that Arcesilaus also objected to Zeno's conception of belief as assent to an impression, on the ground that assent is a matter of reason or thinking, rather than the acceptance of a non-rational ˜impression™ (M. 7.154)."
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