different between imprint vs interline

English

Etymology 1

From Old French empreinte, from the past participle of empreindre, from Latin imprimere

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??m.p??nt/

Noun

imprint (plural imprints)

1. An impression; the mark left behind by printing something.

   The day left an imprint in my mind.
2. The name and details of a publisher or printer, as printed in a book etc.; a publishing house.
3. A distinctive marking, symbol or logo.

   The shirts bore the company imprint on the right sleeve.

Translations

Etymology 2

From Middle English emprinten, enprinten, from Old French empreinter, from the past participle of empreindre, from Latin imprimere

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?m?p??nt/

Verb

imprint (third-person singular simple present imprints, present participle imprinting, simple past and past participle imprinted)

1. To leave a print, impression, image, etc.
2. To learn something indelibly at a particular stage of life, such as who one's parents are.
3. To mark a gene as being from a particular parent so that only one of the two copies of the gene is expressed.

Derived terms

• imprint on

Translations

English

Etymology

inter- +? line

Pronunciation

• (adjective) IPA^(key): /??nt?(?)?la?n/
• (verb) IPA^(key): /??nt?(?)?la?n/

Adjective

interline (not comparable)

1. Between lines.
   • 1986, IEEE, Second International Conference on Simulators: 7-11 September 1986 (page 145)

     Interline twitter occurs on interlaced displays at half the field-rate.

2. (transport) Between (or with) two airlines.

See also

• offline

Verb

interline (third-person singular simple present interlines, present participle interlining, simple past and past participle interlined)

1. To write or insert between lines already written or printed, as for correction or addition.
   • 1733, Jonathan Swift, On Poetry, a Rhapsody

     The Muse invok'd, sit down to write;
     Blot out, correct, insert, refine,
     Enlarge, diminish, interline

2. To arrange in alternate lines.

   • interlining Latin and English one with another

3. To mark or imprint with lines.
   • c. 1600, Thomas Dekker (disputed authorship), Lust's Dominion

     A crooked wrinkle interlines my brow.

Translations

Latin

Verb

interline

1. second-person singular present active imperative of interlin?