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imprinter

noun

Etymology

From imprint + -er.

  1. derived from imprimere
  2. derived from empreinter
  3. inherited from emprinten
  4. suffixed as imprinter — “imprint + er”

Definitions

  1. A device that imprints.

  2. A person who does imprinting with such a device.

  3. An organism that imprints, or forms an attachment.

    • This would be unlikely with a very rapid imprinter such as a duckling or a chick, but mammals tend to become socialized more slowly.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for imprinter. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA