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单词 imprinting
释义

imprinting

noun

im·​print·​ing ˈim-ˌprin-tiŋ How to pronounce imprinting (audio)
im-ˈprin-
: a rapid learning process that takes place early in the life of a social animal (such as a goose) and establishes a behavior pattern (such as recognition of and attraction to its own kind or a substitute)

Example Sentences

Recent Examples on the Web What is original antigenic sin or immunological imprinting? Youri Benadjaoud, ABC News, 7 Sep. 2022 Something about mothers and children, and the unmothered, and human frailty, and imprinting. Jennifer Senior, The Atlantic, 9 Feb. 2022 Perhaps my appreciation of this car is the result of generational imprinting. Brett Berk, Car and Driver, 15 July 2022 To get there, researchers are using technologies such as nanoparticles and molecular imprinting, which create cavities in a polymer structure that match the size and shape of a specific drug. Emily Mullin, Wired, 30 Mar. 2022 Prior research to force mammals to reproduce via parthenogenesis have failed because of genomic imprinting, per a statement. Margaret Osborne, Smithsonian Magazine, 14 Mar. 2022 Something about friendship, which can and should provide support and understanding and company and a different sort of imprinting. Jennifer Senior, The Atlantic, 9 Feb. 2022 Evidence is building that this phenomenon, also known as immune imprinting, is at work in Covid-19. Denise Roland, WSJ, 9 Dec. 2021 Distance is a measurement set early in life, the landmarks of childhood imprinting on our geographic sensibilities forever, even as the magnitude of the world grows and shrinks around us. Washington Post, 5 Nov. 2021 See More

Word History

First Known Use

1937, in the meaning defined above

Medical Definition

imprinting

noun

im·​print·​ing ˈim-ˌprint-iŋ, im-ˈ How to pronounce imprinting (audio)
1
: a rapid learning process that takes place early in the life of a social animal (as a greylag goose) and establishes a behavior pattern (as recognition of and attraction to its own kind or a substitute)
2
: genomic imprinting

imprinting

verb

present participle of imprint
as in engraving
to produce a vivid impression of that early lesson on the value of honesty permanently imprinted itself on my mind

Synonyms & Similar Words

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  • engraving
  • etching
  • branding
  • engraining
  • ingraining
  • impressing
  • infixing
  • implanting
  • inculcating
  • stamping
  • imbuing
  • instilling
  • infusing
  • setting
  • enrooting
  • fixing

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

  • erasing
  • obliterating
  • expunging
  • blotting out
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