Definition of Impress

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Impress

To press, stamp, or print something in or upon; to mark by pressure, or as by pressure; to imprint (that which bears the impression).

To produce by pressure, as a mark, stamp, image, etc.; to imprint (a mark or figure upon something).

Fig.: To fix deeply in the mind; to present forcibly to the attention, etc.; to imprint; to inculcate.

To take by force for public service; as, to impress sailors or money.

To be impressed; to rest.

The act of impressing or making.

A mark made by pressure; an indentation; imprint; the image or figure of anything, formed by pressure or as if by pressure; result produced by pressure or influence.

Characteristic; mark of distinction; stamp.

A device. See Impresa.

The act of impressing, or taking by force for the public service; compulsion to serve; also, that which is impressed.

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Impress Quotations

Never try to impress a woman, because if you do she'll expect you to keep up the standard for the rest of your life.
W. C. Fields

A sense is what has the power of receiving into itself the sensible forms of things without the matter, in the way in which a piece of wax takes on the impress of a signet-ring without the iron or gold.
Aristotle

Words have no power to impress the mind without the exquisite horror of their reality.
Edgar Allan Poe

Our business is infested with idiots who try to impress by using pretentious jargon.
David Ogilvy

If there hadn't been women we'd still be squatting in a cave eating raw meat, because we made civilization in order to impress our girlfriends.
Orson Welles

You will be a failure, until you impress the subconscious with the conviction you are a success. This is done by making an affirmation which "clicks."
Florence Scovel Shinn

Too many people spend money they haven't earned, to buy things they don't want, to impress people they don't like.
Will Smith

His priority did not seem to be to teach them what he knew, but rather to impress upon them that nothing, not even... knowledge, was foolproof.
J. K. Rowling

A scientist in his laboratory is not a mere technician: he is also a child confronting natural phenomena that impress him as though they were fairy tales.
Marie Curie

In less enlightened times, the best way to impress women was to own a hot car. But women wised up and realized it was better to buy their own hot cars so they wouldn't have to ride around with jerks.
Scott Adams

Impress Translations

impress in Dutch is indruk maken op, imponeren
impress in French is impressionner
impress in Italian is impressione, impressionare
impress in Latin is infigo
impress in Norwegian is preg, imponere, avtrykk, trykke, prege
impress in Portuguese is imprima
impress in Spanish is impresionar, impresion

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