impressment
— Noun
– English
~ the act of coercing someone into government service
imprimatur
— Noun
– English
~ formal and explicit approval; "a Democrat usually gets the union's endorsement"
imprint
— Verb
– English
~ establish or impress firmly in the mind; "We imprint our ideas onto our children"
imprint
— Verb
– English
~ mark or stamp with or as if with pressure; "To make a batik, you impress a design with wax"
imprint
— Noun
– English
~ a device produced by pressure on a surface
imprint
— Noun
– English
~ a distinctive influence; "English stills bears the imprint of the Norman invasion"
imprint
— Noun
– English
~ a concavity in a surface produced by pressing; "he left the impression of his fingers in the soft mud"
imprint
— Noun
– English
~ an impression produced by pressure or printing
imprint
— Noun
– English
~ an identification of a publisher; a publisher's name along with the date and address and edition that is printed at the bottom of the title page; "the book was published under a distinguished imprint"
imprinting
— Noun
– English
~ a learning process in early life whereby species specific patterns of behavior are established
imprison
— Verb
– English
~ confine as if in a prison; "His daughters are virtually imprisoned in their own house; he does not let them go out without a chaperone"
imprison
— Verb
– English
~ lock up or confine, in or as in a jail; "The suspects were imprisoned without trial"; "the murderer was incarcerated for the rest of his life"
imprisoned
— Adjective
– English
~ being in captivity
imprisonment
— Noun
– English
~ putting someone in prison or in jail as lawful punishment
imprisonment
— Noun
– English
~ the state of being imprisoned; "he was held in captivity until he died"; "the imprisonment of captured soldiers"; "his ignominious incarceration in the local jail"; "he practiced the immurement of his enemies in the castle dungeon"
imprisonment
— Noun
– English
~ the act of confining someone in a prison (or as if in a prison)
improbability
— Noun
– English
~ the quality of being improbable; "impossibility should never be confused with improbability"; "the improbability of such rare coincidences"
improbable
— Adjective
– English
~ too improbable to admit of belief; "a tall story"
improbable
— Adjective
– English
~ having a probability too low to inspire belief
improbable
— Adjective
– English
~ not likely to be true or to occur or to have occurred; "legislation on the question is highly unlikely"; "an improbable event"