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English Dictionary: impressão de carga by the DICT Development Group
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From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
impress
n
  1. the act of coercing someone into government service [syn: impress, impressment]
v
  1. have an emotional or cognitive impact upon; "This child impressed me as unusually mature"; "This behavior struck me as odd"
    Synonym(s): affect, impress, move, strike
  2. impress positively; "The young chess player impressed her audience"
  3. produce or try to produce a vivid impression of; "Mother tried to ingrain respect for our elders in us"
    Synonym(s): impress, ingrain, instill
  4. mark or stamp with or as if with pressure; "To make a batik, you impress a design with wax"
    Synonym(s): impress, imprint
  5. reproduce by printing
    Synonym(s): print, impress
  6. take (someone) against his will for compulsory service, especially on board a ship; "The men were shanghaied after being drugged"
    Synonym(s): shanghai, impress
  7. dye (fabric) before it is spun
    Synonym(s): impress, yarn-dye
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Impress \Im*press"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Impressed}; p. pr. &
      vb. n. {Impressing}.] [L. impressus, p. p. of imprimere to
      impress; pref. im- in, on + premere to press. See {Press} to
      squeeze, and cf. {Imprint}.]
      1. To press, stamp, or print something in or upon; to mark by
            pressure, or as by pressure; to imprint (that which bears
            the impression).
  
                     His heart, like an agate, with your print impressed.
                                                                              --Shak.
  
      2. To produce by pressure, as a mark, stamp, image, etc.; to
            imprint (a mark or figure upon something).
  
      3. Fig.: To fix deeply in the mind; to present forcibly to
            the attention, etc.; to imprint; to inculcate.
  
                     Impress the motives of persuasion upon our own
                     hearts till we feel the force of them. --I. Watts.
  
      4. [See {Imprest}, {Impress}, n., 5.] To take by force for
            public service; as, to impress sailors or money.
  
                     The second five thousand pounds impressed for the
                     service of the sick and wounded prisoners. --Evelyn.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   d8Impresa \[d8]Im*pre"sa\, n. [It. See {Emprise}, and cf.
      {Impress}, n., 4.] (Her.)
      A device on a shield or seal, or used as a bookplate or the
      like. [Written also {imprese} and {impress}.]
  
               My impresa to your lordship; a swain Flying to a laurel
               for shelter.                                          --J. Webster.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Impress \Im*press"\, v. i.
      To be impressed; to rest. [Obs.]
  
               Such fiendly thoughts in his heart impress. --Chaucer.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Impress \Im"press\, n.; pl. {Impresses}.
      1. The act of impressing or making.
  
      2. A mark made by pressure; an indentation; imprint; the
            image or figure of anything, formed by pressure or as if
            by pressure; result produced by pressure or influence.
  
                     The impresses of the insides of these shells.
                                                                              --Woodward.
  
                     This weak impress of love is as a figure Trenched in
                     ice.                                                   --Shak.
  
      3. Characteristic; mark of distinction; stamp. --South.
  
      4. A device. See {Impresa}. --Cussans.
  
                     To describe . . . emblazoned shields, Impresses
                     quaint.                                             --Milton.
  
      5. [See {Imprest}, {Press} to force into service.] The act of
            impressing, or taking by force for the public service;
            compulsion to serve; also, that which is impressed.
  
                     Why such impress of shipwrights?         --Shak.
  
      {Impress gang}, a party of men, with an officer, employed to
            impress seamen for ships of war; a press gang.
  
      {Impress money}, a sum of money paid, immediately upon their
            entering service, to men who have been impressed.
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