Think of the verb impress as "leaving a mark." You might impress a print onto canvas, or you might impress prospective employers in a job interview. Whether that impression will be good or bad is up to you!
To press, stamp, or print something in or upon; to mark by pressure, or as by pressure; to imprint (that which bears the impression).
Noun
the act of coercing someone into government service
Verb
dye (fabric) before it is spun
Verb
produce or try to produce a vivid impression of; "Mother tried to ingrain respect for our elders in us"
Verb
take (someone) against his will for compulsory service, especially on board a ship; "The men were shanghaied after being drugged"
Verb
mark or stamp with or as if with pressure; "To make a batik, you impress a design with wax"
Verb
reproduce by printing
Verb
have an emotional or cognitive impact upon; "This child impressed me as unusually mature"; "This behavior struck me as odd"
Verb
impress positively; "The young chess player impressed her audience"
v. t.
To press, stamp, or print something in or upon; to mark
by pressure, or as by pressure; to imprint (that which bears the
impression).
v. t.
To produce by pressure, as a mark, stamp, image, etc.;
to imprint (a mark or figure upon something).
v. t.
Fig.: To fix deeply in the mind; to present forcibly to
the attention, etc.; to imprint; to inculcate.
n.
To take by force for public service; as, to impress
sailors or money.
v. i.
To be impressed; to rest.
n.
The act of impressing or making.
n.
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.
n.
Characteristic; mark of distinction; stamp.
n.
A device. See Impresa.
n.
The act of impressing, or taking by force for the public
service; compulsion to serve; also, that which is impressed.
Impress
His heart, like an agate, with your print impressed.2.
Impress the motives of persuasion upon our own hearts till we feel the force of them.4.
The second five thousand pounds impressed for the service of the sick and wounded prisoners.
Impress
Such fiendly thoughts in his heart impress.
Impress
The impresses of the insides of these shells.
This weak impress of love is as a figure Trenched in ice.3.
To describe . . . emblazoned shields, Impresses quaint.5.
Why such impress of shipwrights?
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 be impressed; to rest.
The act of impressing or making.
Usage Examples
Beauty must appeal to the senses, must provide us with immediate enjoyment, must impress us or insinuate itself into us without any effort on our part.
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.
Our business is infested with idiots who try to impress by using pretentious jargon.
It's interesting to feel the pressure of having to be outgoing, because I think in general, as a human being, I'm pessimistic and introverted. But, it's cool, because it's a whole different side of me, and I impress myself. Even at times when I think that there's no possible way that I can be engaging, I'll suddenly pull it out and impress myself.
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.
So it is in poetry. All we ask is that the mood recorded shall impress us as having been of the kind that exhausts the imaginative capacity if it fails to do this the failure will announce itself either in prose or in insignificant verse.
I never feel so utterly fraudulent as when I review a movie whose charms impress all in the world and I simply do not get it. The other variant is that I love something the world disdains. This has had severe career consequences: I am still famous - or notorious - in certain quarters where I am recalled as the man who liked 'Hudson Hawk.'
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Other Usage ExamplesI did grow up next door to Steve McQueen, who was a very famous movie star at the time, but as a kid it didn't impress me. We always had great fun with him. He would take us out on Sundays on his motorcycles, riding around in the desert he was like a second father.
It's easy to impress me. I don't need a fancy party to be happy. Just good friends, good food, and good laughs. I'm happy. I'm satisfied. I'm content.
I know people that could serve me canned tuna and saltine crackers and have me feel more at home at their table than some people who can cook circles around me. The more you try to impress people, generally the less you do.
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.
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.
Forests, lakes, and rivers, clouds and winds, stars and flowers, stupendous glaciers and crystal snowflakes - every form of animate or inanimate existence, leaves its impress upon the soul of man.
It's something we, guys, have all done. Made tapes for girls, trying to impress them, to meet them on a shared plane of aesthetics. Read them someone else's poetry because they do poetry better than you could do it, because you're too awkward to do it.
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.
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