Copy and Imprint

Copy

Copy noun - Something that is made to look exactly like something else.
Usage example: a copy of the famous painting “Washington Crossing the Delaware”

Imprint and copy are semantically related. in edition topic. In some cases you can use "Imprint" instead the word "Copy" as a noun or a verb, when it comes to topics like duplicate.

Nearby Words: copied, copying, copier, copyist

Imprint

Imprint noun - A mark or series of marks left on a surface by something that has passed along it.
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Synonyms for Imprint

Copy and imprint are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Copy" instead the word "Imprint" as a noun or a verb.

Nearby Words: impression, imprinted, imprinting, imprinter

How words are described

female female copy female imprint
physical physical copy physical imprint
full full copy full imprint
perfect perfect copy perfect imprint
Other adjectives: original, single, actual, dark, psychic, main, new, mental, spectral, burned, giant, genetic.

Common collocations

soul copy soul imprint soul
consciousness copy consciousness imprint consciousness
knowledge copy knowledge imprint knowledge
someone copy someone imprint someone
Other words: skills, enemies, memories, abilities, minds.

Both words in one sentence

  • Oh, sorry Leisure Suit Larry 6, how was I supposed to know to use a key on soap to leave an imprint for making a copy of it with a file and other key?!
  • Series / Dollhouse When Alpha imprints himself with Paul's personality it comes as a huge shock, but nobody expected it to turn up again in "Epitaph Two", when he makes a hard copy of Paul's imprint for Echo to use on herself, so that she and the (recently physically deceased) Paul can always be together.
  • Literature / Revelation Space Also played straight and subverted by Calvin Sylveste, who had originally engineered Dan Sylveste as a clone of himself to make it easier to possibly imprint a copy of himself into Dan's brain.
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