different between impression vs purpose

English

Etymology

From Old French impression, from Latin impressio.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?m?p????n/
• Rhymes: -???n

Noun

impression (plural impressions)

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

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

3. A vague recalling of an event, a belief.

4. An impersonation, an imitation of the mannerisms of another individual.
5. An outward appearance.
6. (advertising) An online advertising performance metric representing an instance where an ad is shown once.
   • 2010, Dusty Reagan, Twitter Application Development For Dummies, John Wiley & Sons (?ISBN), page 329:

     Publishers are paid for each ad impression their site generates.

7. (painting) The first coat of colour, such as the priming in house-painting etc.
8. (engraving) A print on paper from a wood block, metal plate, etc.
9. (philosophy) The vivid perception of something as it is experienced, in contrast to ideas or thoughts drawn from memory or the imagination.

Related terms

• impressionability
• impressionable
• impressional
• impressionism
• impressionist
• impressive
• under the impression

Translations

Verb

impression (third-person singular simple present impressions, present participle impressioning, simple past and past participle impressioned)

1. 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.
   • 2007, Graham Pulford, High-Security Mechanical Locks: An Encyclopedic Reference (page 55)

     The trick in impressioning a key is to remove only a small amount of the blank, by filing or cutting, from the pin positions where impressions have been left.

Anagrams

• permission

French

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin impressi?.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??.p??.sj??/, /??.p?e.sj??/

Noun

impression f (plural impressions)

1. an impression, the overall effect of something.
2. the indentation or depression made by the pressure of one object on another.
3. a print, print-out

Derived terms

• faire bonne impression
• impressionnant
• impressionner
• impressionnisme
• impressionniste

Related terms

• empreindre
• imprimer
• imprimerie
• imprimante
• imprimable

Descendants

• Romanian: impresiune, impresie

Further reading

• “impression” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Anagrams

• méprisions

English

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /?p?p?s/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?p??p?s/
• Rhymes: -??(?)p?s

Etymology 1

From Middle English purpos, from Old French purposer (“to propose”), from Latin pr? (“forth”) + pono, hence Latin propono, proponere, with conjugation altered based on poser.

Noun

purpose (countable and uncountable, plural purposes)

1. An objective to be reached; a target; an aim; a goal.
2. A result that is desired; an intention.
3. The act of intending to do something; resolution; determination.
   • 2013, Phil McNulty, "[2]", BBC Sport, 1 September 2013:

     United began with more purpose in the early phase of the second half and Liverpool were grateful for Glen Johnson's crucial block from Young's goalbound shot.
4. The subject of discourse; the point at issue.

   (Can we find and add a quotation of Spenser to this entry?)

5. The reason for which something is done, or the reason it is done in a particular way.

6. (obsolete) Instance; example.

Synonyms

• (target): aim, goal, object, target; See also Thesaurus:goal
• (intention): aim, plan, intention; See also Thesaurus:intention
• (determination): determination, intention, resolution
• (subject of discourse): matter, subject, topic
• (reason for doing something): reason

Hyponyms

• common purpose
• metapurpose

Derived terms

Related terms

Translations

Etymology 2

From Middle English purposen, from Old French purposer (“to propose”).

Verb

purpose (third-person singular simple present purposes, present participle purposing, simple past and past participle purposed)

1. (transitive) To have set as one's purpose; resolve to accomplish; intend; plan.
2. (transitive, passive) To design for some purpose. (Can we add an example for this sense?)
3. (obsolete, intransitive) To discourse.

   (Can we find and add a quotation of Edmund Spenser to this entry?)

Derived terms

• purposed
• purposer
• purposive
• on purpose

Synonyms

• (have set as one's purpose): aim, intend, mean, plan, set out
• (designed for some purpose): intended

Translations

References

• “purpose” in Dictionary.com Unabridged, Dictionary.com, LLC, 1995–present.
• “purpose”, in The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 4th edition, Boston, Mass.: Houghton Mifflin, 2000, ?ISBN
• "purpose" in WordNet 2.0, Princeton University, 2003.