impress

/im'pres/

Thân thiện

A young musician impresses the judges with her performance.

Definition

1. Verb (Transitive):

   • To affect someone's mind or feelings strongly and often favorably: To cause someone to feel admiration, interest, or respect.
   • To apply pressure to make a mark or design: To stamp or imprint a mark, pattern, or design onto a surface using pressure.
   • To fix an idea or feeling firmly in someone's mind: To make something understood or remembered very clearly.
   • (Historical) To force someone into service: To compel someone, especially into military or naval service.

2. Noun (Countable):

   • A mark or pattern made by pressure: An imprint or stamp.
   • A characteristic quality or effect: A distinctive, often positive, effect produced on the mind or feelings.

Examples of Usage

• Verb:

  • Her confident presentation impressed the entire committee. (Her presentation caused the committee to feel admiration.)
  • The artisan impressed a complex pattern into the wet clay. (The artisan stamped a pattern into the clay.)
  • The teacher tried to impress the importance of honesty on her students. (The teacher tried to fix the idea of honesty firmly in their minds.)
  • In the 18th century, the British navy could impress sailors into service. (The navy could force sailors to serve.)

• Noun:

  • The fossil showed the clear impress of a leaf. (The fossil showed the mark left by a leaf.)
  • His work bears the impress of a master's hand. (His work shows the distinctive quality of a master.)

Advanced Usage

• "To be impressed by/with": To feel admiration or respect because of something.

  • I was deeply impressed by her dedication to the project.

• "To impress something upon someone": To emphasize something strongly to make sure it is understood or remembered.

  • He impressed upon me the need for absolute secrecy.

Variants and Related Words

• Impression (n): The effect or feeling produced; a mark or imprint.
  • His first speech made a strong impression.
• Impressive (adj): Evoking admiration through size, quality, or skill.
  • The view from the summit was impressive.
• Impressionable (adj): Easily influenced.
  • Children are at an impressionable age.

Synonyms

• Verb: Affect, influence, move, strike, awe, imprint, stamp, engrave.
• Noun: Imprint, stamp, mark, impression, impact.

Related Phrasal Verbs

• Impress on/upon: To make someone understand the importance of something.
  • She impressed on us the urgency of the situation.

Related Idioms

• "To make an impression": To cause people to notice and remember you, usually in a positive way.
  • He was determined to make a good impression at the job interview.

Học thuật

Noun

1. the act of coercing someone into government service

Verb

1. dye (fabric) before it is spun
2. take (someone) against his will for compulsory service, especially on board a ship
   • The men were shanghaied after being drugged
3. reproduce by printing
4. mark or stamp with or as if with pressure
   • To make a batik, you impress a design with wax
5. produce or try to produce a vivid impression of
   • Mother tried to ingrain respect for our elders in us
6. impress positively
   • The young chess player impressed her audience
7. have an emotional or cognitive impact upon
   • This child impressed me as unusually mature
   • This behavior struck me as odd

Từ đồng nghĩa

• impressment
• yarn-dye
• shanghai
• print
• imprint
• ingrain
• instill
• affect
• move
• strike