fingerprint

Speech parts

1. fingerprint - Noun

2. fingerprint - Verb

Meaning

a smudge made by a (dirty) finger

a print made by an impression of the ridges in the skin of a finger; often used for biometric identification in criminal investigations

a generic term for any identifying characteristic

take an impression of a person's fingerprints

Source: WordNet

Synonyms

fingermark mark book dab track sign brief identify print characteristic brand impression trace stamp attribute
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Antonyms

foundation cause base basis start root
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Hypernyms

mark print spot identification reproduce smear

Hyponyms

loop thumbprint

Phrases with the word

Rabin fingerprint fingerprint analyst fingerprint examiner fingerprint technician forensic fingerprint analyst forensic fingerprint examiner

Examples

I am not one to rely upon the expert procedure. It is the psychology I seek, not the fingerprint or the cigarette ash. Agatha Christie

Poetry is the fingerprint of God in human clay. Nicolás Gómez Dávila

You carry forever the fingerprint that comes from being under someone's thumb. Nancy Banks Smith

Hop in? Dude, are you out of your ever-loving mind? I can't touch this. I might leave a fingerprint or something. (Nick) Oh the horror. Guess I'll have to trade the piece of junk in and get a new one if that happens. (Acheron) Sherrilyn Kenyon

If you use Facebook - as I do - Facebook in all likelihood has a unique digital file of your face, one that can be as accurate as a fingerprint and that can be used to identify you in a photo of a large crowd. Al Franken

All the fingerprint paintings are done without a grid. Chuck Close

Close letter words and terms

fingerpointing fingerpost fingerprick fingerprint analysis fingerprint analyst fingerprint examiner