impression
Listen:Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
impression/ɪmˈpreʃn/
▶noun
- 1 an idea, feeling, or opinion.
■ an effect produced on someone: her quick wit made a good impression.
- 2 an imitation of a person or thing, done to entertain.
- 3 a mark impressed on a surface.
■ Dentistry a negative copy of the teeth or mouth made by pressing them into a soft substance.
- 4 the printing of a number of copies of a publication for issue at one time.
■ chiefly Brit. a particular printed version of a book, especially one reprinted with no or only minor alteration.
■ a print taken from an engraving.
– derivatives
impressional adjective.
impressional adjective.
'impression' also found in these Oxford entries:
after-image
- air
- appear
- appearance
- blush
- breathe
- charade
- chorus
- cold
- come
- convey
- deceive
- deceptive
- delusion
- desolate
- dint
- distort
- dress
- effect
- experience
- feel
- fey
- figure
- finish
- flatter
- footprint
- fossil
- give
- gloss
- halo effect
- handprint
- idea
- illusion
- image
- impress
- Impressionism
- imprint
- incuse
- infinity pool
- interpolate
- jizz
- lie
- look
- mackle
- mediagenic
- mislead
- moody
- odour
- offset
