- noun
- /prɪnt/
- Look at the size of those prints.
Also the sheet of paper with a boot print and the disfigured snowman.
- Also the sheet of paper with a boot print and the disfigured snowman.
- Like that couch has like your butt print built into it Now.
- And I just can't wait until somebody puts a boot print on Mars.
- They're collecting shoe prints, maybe they're collecting latent prints.
- So that's when they did the lineup and it says Harvey Oswald's finger and palm prints are taken on an inkless pad.
- You can taste the soft palm prints of a young boy picking that bitch up out the ditch.
Examples
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They lifted four sets of prints from the apartment.
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The detective analyzed the paw print left by the suspect's dog at the crime scene.
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Sorry, the print is so small on these things.
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Make sure the L print is on the left and the R print is on the right.
Academic text (1999) -
We found your print at your ex-wife's house.
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His forehead leaves a print on the wet glass the size of a small potato.
Fiction book (1991) -
We noticed several large boot prints leading away from the campsite.
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The artist created a beautiful print of a landscape using a specific etching technique.
Synonyms
A visible line, spot, scratch, or stain on a surface
A mark left by a finger that can identify a person
A mark left by a foot or shoe on a surface
A mark left on a surface when something presses into it
A mark left by a hand pressed on a surface showing its shape
A mark made when something presses into a surface or the tool that makes it
A mark left by the pad of a thumb used to identify a person
A mark left by an animal's foot showing claws or pads
A mark left by a foot or shoe on a surface
A mark a boot makes on a surface that often shows the sole pattern
A mark left in soft ground by an animal's foot like a horse
A visible mark left by a finger, often when it is dirty
Idioms
Compounds
- Literature
The number of copies made for one edition of a magazine, book or newspaper
- Specialized
A print made by putting a negative directly on photo paper, making the image the same size
- Specialized
A picture created when someone pushes ink through a mesh screen onto paper or cloth
How Visible
Surface Forms
Etymology
Print meaning a mark or impression comes from the original sense of 'impression' made by pressing something down, so a footprint or handprint is a print because it is a pressed mark.