IMPRESS

noun the act of impressing or making.

2. impress ·noun characteristic; mark of distinction; stamp.

3. impress ·noun a device. ·see impresa.

4. impress ·vi to be impressed; to rest.

5. impress ·noun to take by force for public service; as, to impress sailors or money.

6. impress ·vt to produce by pressure, as a mark, stamp, image, ·etc.; to imprint (a mark or figure upon something).

7. impress ·noun the act of impressing, or taking by force for the public service; compulsion to serve; also, that which is impressed.

8. impress ·vt to press, stamp, or print something in or upon; to mark by pressure, or as by pressure; to imprint (that which bears the impression).

9. impress ·vt fig.: to fix deeply in the mind; to present forcibly to the attention, ·etc.; to imprint; to inculcate.

10. impress ·noun 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.