imprint

Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
imprint/ɪmˈprɪnt/

▶verb

• 1 impress or stamp (a mark or outline) on a surface or body.

• 2 make an impression or mark on.

  ■ fix (an idea) firmly in someone's mind.

• 3 (imprint on) Zoology (of a young animal) come to recognize (another animal, person, or thing) as a parent or object of habitual trust.

▶noun

• 1 an impressed mark or outline.

• 2 a printer's or publisher's name and other details in a publication.

  ■ a brand name under which books are published, typically the name of a former publishing house now part of a larger group.

– origin ME: from OFr. empreinter, based on L. imprimere, from in- ‘into’ + premere ‘to press’.