Word Finder - impression

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The indentation or depression made by the pressure of one object on or into another.

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His head made an impression on the pillow.

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The overall effect of something, e.g., on a person.

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He tried to make a good impression on his parents.

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A vague recalling of an event, a belief.

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I have the impression that he's already left for Paris.

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An impersonation, an imitation of the mannerisms of another individual.

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An outward appearance.

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An online advertising performance metric representing an instance where an ad is shown once.

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The first coat of colour, such as the priming in house-painting etc.

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(engraving) A print on paper from a wood block, metal plate, etc.

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The vivid perception of something as it is experienced, in contrast to ideas or thoughts drawn from memory or the imagination.

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To manipulate a blank key within a lock so as to mark it with impressions of the shape of the lock, which facilitates creation of a duplicate key.

Her last impression of Darcie was a smiling face.

That's your impression of me?

Warmth crawled up her neck at the thought of the impression she must have given Alex.

Your mother seems to be under the impression that you want to stay here - permanently.

This speech not only made a strong impression, but created excitement in the lodge.

Here, too, it was that Hegel's philosophy of history made a deep impression upon him.

I get the impression that's chasing down the wrong trail.

As he had done on their first meeting at Kochubey's, Speranski produced a strong impression on Prince Andrew on the Wednesday, when he received him tête-à-tête at his own house and talked to him long and confidentially.

He was that absent-minded crank, a grand seigneur husband who was in no one's way, and far from spoiling the high tone and general impression of the drawing room, he served, by the contrast he presented to her, as an advantageous background to his elegant and tactful wife.

Natasha, seeing the impression the news of her brother's wound produced on Sonya, felt for the first time the sorrowful side of the news.

The word was a singular impression of anguish and surprise.

He now looked like a man who has time to think of the impression he makes on others, but is occupied with agreeable and interesting work.

Up until now, he had given her the impression he was a complete hermit.

Her first impression was confirmed—the men in the room were UFC material, all well over six feet and solid.

At least, that was her first impression of the eight- by-eight room with its steel-framed bed, simple mattress, and no furniture.

She had the impression of extreme intelligence and extreme determination, a combination that awed and intimidated her.

The tsar, Alexander III., under the impression of the assassination of his father, desired, however, the renewal of the Dreikaiserbund, both as a guarantee of European peace and as a conservative league against revolutionary parties.

It was already the beginning of June when on his return journey he drove into the birch forest where the gnarled old oak had made so strange and memorable an impression on him.

Felipa pulled the hair up and used combs with amethyst jewels on them, giving the impression of long hair.

The man before her was unwavering, and she had the impression of everything she was not and everything she needed to be whole.

His lean build gave the impression that he was tall, but he was only five feet nine inches.

The second impression was the large Copperhead beside the trail.

Every move was calculated, and yet he gave the impression that he had nothing but time.

It was from the Moravians that Schleiermacher learnt his religion, and they even made a passing impression on Goethe; but both these men were repelled by their doctrine of the substitutionary sufferings of Christ.

Princess Mary had made an agreeable impression on him when he had met her in Smolensk province.

Lana had the impression of more than a single-room shelter.

It reminded Carmen of what Katie said about her response to Alex making an impression on the children.

This law naturally made a deep impression on military Europe, not merely because the period of color service was reducedGermany had taken this step years beforebut because of the almost entire absence of the usual exemptions.

Boris belonged to the latter and no one else, while showing servile respect to Kutuzov, could so create an impression that the old fellow was not much good and that Bennigsen managed everything.

I guess what made the biggest impression was watching you and her over the course of thousands of years.

And yet, she had the impression that he was uneasy.

But his brilliantly white, strong teeth which showed in two unbroken semicircles when he laughed--as he often did--were all sound and good, there was not a gray hair in his beard or on his head, and his whole body gave an impression of suppleness and especially of firmness and endurance.

Lori's disappointed statement left the impression that she expected Destiny to know her.

No offense, but I'm under the impression the others didn't have a chance to object.

Way to make an impression.

The pictures the language paints on her memory appear to make an indelible impression; and many times, when an experience comes to her similar in character, the language starts forth with wonderful accuracy, like the reflection from a mirror.

This unpleasant impression merely flitted over the young and happy face of the Emperor like a cloud of haze across a clear sky and vanished.

All he saw about him merged into a general impression of naked, bleeding human bodies that seemed to fill the whole of the low tent, as a few weeks previously, on that hot August day, such bodies had filled the dirty pond beside the Smolensk road.

Why didn't he simply tell her that instead of leaving the impression that the clothes were improper?

In a certain sense he knew better; at any rate, he often repeats the words of those who knew better; but the general impression given by his story is that the plebeians were a low mob and their leaders factious and interested ringleaders of a mob.

As often occurs with old men, it was only after some seconds that the impression produced by Prince Andrew's face linked itself up with Kutuzov's remembrance of his personality.

They had vaguely remembered Jeffrey Byrne from his repeat trips, but Byrne hadn't made much of an impression on anyone.

And this embrace too, owing to a long-standing impression related to his innermost feelings, had its usual effect on Kutuzov and he gave a sob.

It'd been too long since a normal woman overcame his first impression.

This appeal produced a painful impression.

Unfortunately the civilizing efforts of Matthias made but little impression on society at large.

It seems that a plot with such an object was actually on foot, and that the younger Henry gave it up in a moment of better feeling, when he realized the evil impression that the unfilial act would make upon the nation.

As was shown afterwards, they made an impression upon Burke that was never effaced.

Scarcely any impression was left on Pierre's mind by all that happened to him from the time of his rescue till his illness.

The next appearance of the historian made a deeper impression.