impress
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1. impress - Noun
2. impress - Verb
Meaning
A device. See Impresa.
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.
The act of impressing, or taking by force for the public service; compulsion to serve; also, that which is impressed.
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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.
The school-boy doesn't force himself to learn his vocabularies and rules altogether at night, but knows that be must impress them again in the morning.
Too many people spend money they haven't earned to buy things they don't want to impress people they don't like.
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.
Love, I find, is like singing. Everybody can do enough to satisfy themselves, though it may not impress the neighbors as being very much.
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.