{ "dictype": "WikiDicScrap", "error": false, "code": 200, "json": { "type": "wiki", "pronunciations": { "phonetic": [ "ˈɪmˌprɛs", "ˌɪmˈprɛs" ], "listenurl": [ { "lang": "Audio (US)", "url": "/var/www/html/blab/dic/audio/us/impress.ogg" }, { "lang": "Audio (US)", "url": "/var/www/html/blab/dic/audio/us/impress.mp3" }, { "lang": "Audio (US)", "url": "/var/www/html/blab/dic/audio/us/impress.ogg" }, { "lang": "Audio (US)", "url": "/var/www/html/blab/dic/audio/us/impress.mp3" } ] }, "meansorg": { "etymologies": [ "From Middle English impressen, from Latin impressus, perfect passive participle of imprimere (“to press into or upon, stick, stamp, or dig into”), from in (“in, upon”) + premere (“to press”)." ], "typelist": [ { "name": "Verb", "meanlist": [ { "mean": "(transitive) To affect (someone) strongly and often favourably.\n1963, Margery Allingham, chapter 5, in The China Governess‎:Mr. Campion appeared suitably impressed and she warmed to him. He was very easy to talk to with those long clown lines in his pale face, a natural goon, born rather too early she suspected.\n1998, “That Don't Impress Me Much”, in Come On Over, performed by Shania Twain:Okay, so you're a rocket scientist / That don't impress me much\nYou impressed me with your command of Urdu." }, { "mean": "(intransitive) To make an impression, to be impressive.\n2012 September 7, Phil McNulty, “Moldova 0-5 England”, in BBC Sport‎:Manchester United's Tom Cleverley impressed on his first competitive start and Lampard demonstrated his continued worth at international level in a performance that was little more than a stroll once England swiftly exerted their obvious authority.\nHenderson impressed in his first game as captain." }, { "mean": "(transitive) To produce a vivid impression of (something).\nThat first view of the Eiger impressed itself on my mind." }, { "mean": "(transitive) To mark or stamp (something) using pressure.\nWe impressed our footprints in the wet cement.\nc. 1595–1596 (date written), William Shakespeare, “Loues Labour’s Lost”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies  (First Folio), London: Isaac Iaggard, and Ed Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, :Gentle lady, / When I did first impart my love to you." }, { "mean": "To produce (a mark, stamp, image, etc.); to imprint (a mark or figure upon something)." }, { "mean": "(figurative) To fix deeply in the mind; to present forcibly to the attention, etc.; to imprint; to inculcate.\n1741, I Watts, The Improvement of the Mind: Or, A Supplement to the Art of Logick: , London: James Brackstone, , →OCLC:\nimpress the motives and methods of persuasion upon our own hearts, till we feel the force and power of them." }, { "mean": "(transitive) To compel (someone) to serve in a military force.\nThe press gang used to impress people into the Navy." }, { "mean": "(transitive) To seize or confiscate (property) by force.\nThe liner was impressed as a troop carrier.\n1665 April 29 (Gregorian calendar)​, John Evelyn, “”, in William Bray, editor, Memoirs, Illustrative of the Life and Writings of John Evelyn, , volume I, 2nd edition, London: Henry Colburn, ; and sold by John and Arthur Arch, , published 1819, →OCLC:\nthe second £5,000 imprest for the service of the sick and wounded prisoners" } ] }, { "name": "Noun", "meanlist": [ { "mean": "The act of impressing." }, { "mean": "An impression; an impressed image or copy of something.\nc. 1590–1591 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Two Gentlemen of Verona”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies  (First Folio), London: Isaac Iaggard, and Ed Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, :This weak impress of love is as a figure / Trenched in ice.\n1908, Arthur Conan Doyle, The Adventure of the Bruce-Partington Plans, Norton 2005, p. 1330:\nWe know that you were pressed for money, that you took an impress of the keys which your brother held" }, { "mean": "A stamp or seal used to make an impression." }, { "mean": "An impression on the mind, imagination etc.\n2007, John Burrow, A History of Histories, Penguin 2009, p. 187:\nSuch admonitions, in the English of the Authorized Version, left an indelible impress on imaginations nurtured on the Bible" }, { "mean": "Characteristic; mark of distinction; stamp.\n1692–1717, Robert South, Twelve Sermons Preached upon Several Occasions, volume (please specify |volume=I to VI), 6th edition, London: J Bettenham, for Jonah Bowyer, , published 1727, →OCLC:we have God surveying the works of the creation, and leaving this general impress or character upon them\n1941 June, Cecil J. Allen, “British Locomotive Practive and Performance”, in Railway Magazine, page 260:As he himself would doubtless have wished, he died in harness; only a few weeks previously he had been present at the first public view of his latest design, the Bantam Cock, which, like most of his products, bore all over it the impress of his personality." }, { "mean": "A heraldic device; an impresa.\n1869, John Edwin Cussans, Handbook of Heraldry\nIt commonly occurred that Knights who , on entering the Lists , wished to conceal their identity , would assume a Device with an allusive Motto , which was designated an IMPRESS\n1667, John Milton, “Book VIII”, in Paradise Lost. , London: , , →OCLC; republished as Paradise Lost in Ten Books: , London: Basil Montagu Pickering , 1873, →OCLC:To describe emblazon'd Shields, / Impreses quaint." }, { "mean": "The act of impressing, or taking by force for the public service; compulsion to serve; also, that which is impressed.\nc. 1599–1602 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Hamlet, Prince of Denmarke”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies  (First Folio), London: Isaac Iaggard, and Ed Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, :Why such impress of shipwrights?" } ] }, { "name": "Derived_terms", "meanlist": [ { "mean": "impressed\nimpression\nimpressive\nimpressively" } ] }, { "name": "Further_reading", "meanlist": [ { "mean": "impress in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. C. Merriam, 1913\nimpress in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911\nimpress at OneLook Dictionary Search" } ] } ] }, "meanskor": { "etymologies": [ "" ], "typelist": [ { "name": "동사.", "meanlist": [ { "mean": "" }, { "mean": "" }, { "mean": "" }, { "mean": "" }, { "mean": "" }, { "mean": "" }, { "mean": "" }, { "mean": "" } ] }, { "name": "명사", "meanlist": [ { "mean": "" }, { "mean": "" }, { "mean": "" }, { "mean": "" }, { "mean": "" }, { "mean": "" }, { "mean": "" } ] }, { "name": "파생_항", "meanlist": [ { "mean": "" } ] }, { "name": "추가_판독", "meanlist": [ { "mean": "" } ] } ] } } }