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Dictionary Results for Imprinting:

1. WordNet® 3.0 (2006)

imprinting
    n 1: a learning process in early life whereby species specific
         patterns of behavior are established

2. The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

imprinting \im*print"ing\, n. (Ethology, Psychology)
   The learning of a behavioral pattern that occurs soon after
   birth or hatching in certain animals, in which a long-lasting
   response to an individual (such as a parent) or an object is
   rapidly acquired; it is particularly noted in the response of
   certain birds to the animal they first see after hatching,
   usually the parent, as in ducks who will follow the adult
   duck they first see.
   [PJC]

3. The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

Imprint \Im*print"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Imptrinted; p. pr. &
   vb. n. Imprinting.] [OE. emprenten, F. empreint, p. p. of
   empreindre to imprint, fr. L. imprimere to impres, imprint.
   See 1st In-, Print, and cf. Impress.]
   1. To impress; to mark by pressure; to indent; to stamp.
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            And sees his num'rous herds imprint her sands.
                                                  --Prior.
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   2. To stamp or mark, as letters on paper, by means of type,
      plates, stamps, or the like; to print the mark (figures,
      letters, etc., upon something).
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            Nature imprints upon whate'er we see,
            That has a heart and life in it, "Be free."
                                                  --Cowper.
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   3. To fix indelibly or permanently, as in the mind or memory;
      to impress.
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            Ideas of those two different things distinctly
            imprinted on his mind.                --Locke.

   4. (Ethology) To create or acquire (a behavioral pattern) by
      the process of imprinting.
      [PJC]

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