imprintest

Verb

imprint (third-person singular simple present imprints, present participle imprinting, simple past and past participle imprinted)

1. To leave a print, impression, image, etc.
   • For a fee, they can imprint the envelopes with a monogram.
2. To learn something indelibly at a particular stage of life, such as who one's parents are.
   • Baby birds are known for a propensity to imprint; they tend to imprint on whichever creatures they perceive to be their parents — including humans doing wildlife rescue!
3. To mark a gene as being from a particular parent so that only one of the two copies of the gene is expressed.

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