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imprinting

/im-prin-ting/US // ɪmˈprɪn tɪŋ //UK // (ɪmˈprɪntɪŋ) //

压印,印记,印证,印花

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n.名词 noun
  1. 1

    Animal Behavior, Psychology.

    • : rapid learning that occurs during a brief receptive period, typically soon after birth or hatching, and establishes a long-lasting behavioral response to a specific individual or object, as attachment to parent, offspring, or site.

Examples

  • More channels, more competition for the viewers' attention, means fewer shows imprinting themselves on the culture.

  • The new oil paint, that is, reveals the sacred story of spiritual light imprinting on matter better than ever before.

  • Imprinting is introduced in Eclipse as an involuntary, lifelong attachment to a soul mate.

  • The fastidious and leisurely still seal their envelopes with wax, imprinting thus their monogram.

  • Chocolate manufacturers seemed to have a passion for imprinting their Quakerly names on every bit of stuff they sold.

  • Each morning the child greets his father by imprinting a kiss upon the hand.

  • He shook his head, his eyes roaming over her hungrily, imprinting every detail of her beauty on his memory to stay.

  • From whom was the paper purchased on which appears the imprinting on the exhibit identified here as Commission Exhibit No. 996.