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Imprinting   /ɪmprˈɪntɪŋ/  /ɪmprˈɪnɪŋ/   Listen
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imprinting  n.  (Ethology, Psychology) The learning of a behavioral pattern that occurs soon after birth or hatching in certain animals, in which a long-lasting response to an individual (such as a parent) or an object is rapidly acquired; it is particularly noted in the response of certain birds to the animal they first see after hatching, usually the parent, as in ducks who will follow the adult duck they first see.






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"Imprinting" Quotes from Famous Books



... involuntarily turned her face towards his. He hung back from imprinting the expected kiss: at which Betty started as if she had received a poignant wound. She moved away so suddenly that he hardly had time to follow her up the ...
— A Group of Noble Dames • Thomas Hardy

... eyes filled with tears; she did not say a word, but imprinting a kiss upon its soft plumage, she surrendered it at once, and the message was hurriedly fastened to its neck. The bird wheeled round and round in a few circles that widened in their diameter, and quickly sunk to an altitude in the comet's ...
— Off on a Comet • Jules Verne

... Lit. "imprinting track upon track," but it is better perhaps to avoid the language of ...
— The Sportsman - On Hunting, A Sportsman's Manual, Commonly Called Cynegeticus • Xenophon

... The count wiped the blood away with his handkerchief. Then he tried to revive her by imprinting long, passionate kisses upon her ...
— The Grandee • Armando Palacio Valds

... took her by the shoulders, and, imprinting a fatherly kiss on her brow, lifted the girl aloft and set her on the table; all clapped their hands and shouted "Bravo!" being charmed by the girl's figure and bearing, and more particularly by her Lithuanian ...
— Pan Tadeusz • Adam Mickiewicz


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