Noun

• S: (n) imprint (a distinctive influence) "English stills bears the imprint of the Norman invasion"
• S: (n) depression, impression, imprint (a concavity in a surface produced by pressing) "he left the impression of his fingers in the soft mud"
• S: (n) imprint (an identification of a publisher; a publisher's name along with the date and address and edition that is printed at the bottom of the title page) "the book was published under a distinguished imprint"
• direct hypernym / inherited hypernym / sister term
• S: (n) identification (evidence of identity; something that identifies a person or thing)
• S: (n) ballistic identification, ballistic fingerprinting, bullet fingerprinting (identification of the gun that fired a bullet from an analysis of the unique marks that every gun makes on the bullet it fires and on the shell ejected from it)
• S: (n) biometric identification, biometric authentication, identity verification (the automatic identification of living individuals by using their physiological and behavioral characteristics) "negative identification can only be accomplished through biometric identification"; "if a pin or password is lost or forgotten it can be changed and reissued but a biometric identification cannot"
• S: (n) imprint (an identification of a publisher; a publisher's name along with the date and address and edition that is printed at the bottom of the title page) "the book was published under a distinguished imprint"
• S: (n) positive identification (evidence proving that you are who you say you are; evidence establishing that you are among the group of people already known to the system; recognition by the system leads to acceptance) "a system for positive identification can prevent the use of a single identity by several people"
• S: (n) negative identification (evidence proving that you are not who you say you are not; evidence establishing that you are not among a group of people already known to the system; recognition by the system leads to rejection) "a system for negative identification can prevent the use of multiple identities by a single person"
• S: (n) facial profiling (identification of criminals and terrorist by means of videotapes of their faces) "facial profiling is a new form of airport security"
• S: (n) fingerprint (a generic term for any identifying characteristic) "that tax bill had the senator's fingerprints all over it"
• S: (n) linguistic profiling (using speech characteristics or dialect to identify a speaker's race or religion or social class)
• S: (n) profiling (recording a person's behavior and analyzing psychological characteristics in order to predict or assess their ability in a certain sphere or to identify a particular group of people)
• S: (n) imprint, embossment (an impression produced by pressure or printing)
• S: (n) imprint (a device produced by pressure on a surface)

Verb

• S: (v) imprint, form (establish or impress firmly in the mind) "We imprint our ideas onto our children"
• S: (v) impress, imprint (mark or stamp with or as if with pressure) "To make a batik, you impress a design with wax"