Fingerprint
noun
A mark made by the pattern of ridges on the end of a person's finger.
The police found the suspect's fingerprint on the crime scene.
Often appears as...
- leave a fingerprint
- fingerprint analysis
noun
A unique characteristic or trait that can distinguish or identify something or someone.
Each product has a fingerprint unique to the manufacturer.
Often appears as...
- genetic fingerprint
- digital fingerprint
verb
To take a record of a person's fingerprints for identification purposes.
The police fingerprinted the suspect at the station.
Often appears as...
- fingerprint a suspect
- fingerprint the victim
noun
A mark made by the pattern of ridges on the end of a person's finger.
The police found the suspect's fingerprint on the crime scene.
Often appears as...
- leave a fingerprint
- fingerprint analysis
noun
A unique characteristic or trait that can distinguish or identify something or someone.
Each product has a fingerprint unique to the manufacturer.
Often appears as...
- genetic fingerprint
- digital fingerprint
verb
To take a record of a person's fingerprints for identification purposes.
The police fingerprinted the suspect at the station.
Often appears as...
- fingerprint a suspect
- fingerprint the victim
Definition 1 of 3
Pro Tip 1/3Crime Scene Clue
Fingerprints are often used in detective stories to solve crimes.
The detective lifted the clear fingerprint from the glass.
Pro Tip 2/3Personal Identifier
Every person's fingerprint is unique, like a personal signature.
Her fingerprint was the key to unlock her phone.
Pro Tip 3/3Figurative Use
'Leaving a fingerprint' can mean having an impact or influence.
His mentorship left a lasting fingerprint on my career.
Pro Tip 1/3Crime Scene Clue
Fingerprints are often used in detective stories to solve crimes.
The detective lifted the clear fingerprint from the glass.
Pro Tip 2/3Personal Identifier
Every person's fingerprint is unique, like a personal signature.
Her fingerprint was the key to unlock her phone.
Pro Tip 3/3Figurative Use
'Leaving a fingerprint' can mean having an impact or influence.
His mentorship left a lasting fingerprint on my career.
Pro Tip 1/3Crime Scene Clue
Fingerprints are often used in detective stories to solve crimes.
The detective lifted the clear fingerprint from the glass.
Pro Tip 2/3Personal Identifier
Every person's fingerprint is unique, like a personal signature.
Her fingerprint was the key to unlock her phone.
Pro Tip 3/3Figurative Use
'Leaving a fingerprint' can mean having an impact or influence.
His mentorship left a lasting fingerprint on my career.
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Can plants talk to each...
Different plants convey those warnings using different chemical languages. Individual sagebrush plants in the same meadow release slightly different sets of alarm chemicals. The makeup of that cocktail influences the effectiveness of communication. The more similar two plants' chemical fingerprints are, the more fluently they can communicate.
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Neil and Katy Discuss...
Why is that more odd to you than the fact that we all have different personalities? We have different talent. But personalities can be based on-- On what you learn. Environment-- nurture, and not just nature. Right. So I thought about it the other day, and it kind of made me spin. It's just like, we all have different fingerprints.
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How do we study the...
These lines are the characteristic fingerprints of atoms. Each type of atom in the solar atmosphere soaks up light at specific wavelengths, and the amount of absorption depends on how many of these atoms there are. So by observing how much light is missing at these characteristic wavelengths,
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Snow Leopards: Ghosts in...
individuals so every coat is like a fingerprint yeah it's like that yeah so they have unique patterns on the fur and then this helps us you know to identify you've been camera shopping for what seven years in this reserve yeah why do you do it what are you hoping to achieve
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Ethical dilemma: Who...
your judgment of your spouse's character is a relevant consideration. But finding their fingerprints at the crime scene is surely stronger evidence. So, from an evidentialist point of view, you should either believe your spouse is guilty, or at best remain undecided.
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Should we be looking for...
But wait. Maybe we should ask a different question first. Should we try to find out if we're alone in the universe? If we do find the atmospheric fingerprints of life on one of these small, distant worlds, should we try to contact any beings who may live there?
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Why is our universe...
would have been stretched out to the macro world, yielding a distinctive fingerprint, a pattern of slightly hotter spots and slightly colder spots, across space, which powerful telescopes have now observed. Going further, if there are other universes,
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One Man’s Mission to...
nobody recognized that the tree lives on because when you threaten its life from its roots it throws off things folk basil sprouts so the exact genetic fingerprint of this stump and any other stump in this whole region is in the basil sprouts
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What a planet’s...
on that planet makes a spectral fingerprint and here you see the one for the earth that has oxygen water and also reducing as methane that is the spectral fingerprint for life and of course the earth was different through his
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Seven Superpowered...
patterns are as unique to each whale shark as fingerprints are to humans so if you get a good enough picture it might just help you identify which record-setting super-sized friend you found
Video examples
Can plants talk to each...
Different plants convey those warnings using different chemical languages. Individual sagebrush plants in the same meadow release slightly different sets of alarm chemicals. The makeup of that cocktail influences the effectiveness of communication. The more similar two plants' chemical fingerprints are, the more fluently they can communicate.
Video examples
Neil and Katy Discuss...
Why is that more odd to you than the fact that we all have different personalities? We have different talent. But personalities can be based on-- On what you learn. Environment-- nurture, and not just nature. Right. So I thought about it the other day, and it kind of made me spin. It's just like, we all have different fingerprints.
Video examples
How do we study the...
These lines are the characteristic fingerprints of atoms. Each type of atom in the solar atmosphere soaks up light at specific wavelengths, and the amount of absorption depends on how many of these atoms there are. So by observing how much light is missing at these characteristic wavelengths,
Video examples
Snow Leopards: Ghosts in...
individuals so every coat is like a fingerprint yeah it's like that yeah so they have unique patterns on the fur and then this helps us you know to identify you've been camera shopping for what seven years in this reserve yeah why do you do it what are you hoping to achieve
Video examples
Ethical dilemma: Who...
your judgment of your spouse's character is a relevant consideration. But finding their fingerprints at the crime scene is surely stronger evidence. So, from an evidentialist point of view, you should either believe your spouse is guilty, or at best remain undecided.
Video examples
Should we be looking for...
But wait. Maybe we should ask a different question first. Should we try to find out if we're alone in the universe? If we do find the atmospheric fingerprints of life on one of these small, distant worlds, should we try to contact any beings who may live there?
Video examples
Why is our universe...
would have been stretched out to the macro world, yielding a distinctive fingerprint, a pattern of slightly hotter spots and slightly colder spots, across space, which powerful telescopes have now observed. Going further, if there are other universes,
Video examples
One Man’s Mission to...
nobody recognized that the tree lives on because when you threaten its life from its roots it throws off things folk basil sprouts so the exact genetic fingerprint of this stump and any other stump in this whole region is in the basil sprouts
Video examples
What a planet’s...
on that planet makes a spectral fingerprint and here you see the one for the earth that has oxygen water and also reducing as methane that is the spectral fingerprint for life and of course the earth was different through his
Video examples
Seven Superpowered...
patterns are as unique to each whale shark as fingerprints are to humans so if you get a good enough picture it might just help you identify which record-setting super-sized friend you found
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Quote examples
Eddy Cue
American Businessman
In recent years, the government has lost more than five million fingerprints from government employees. They have lost hundreds of millions of credit numbers from financial institutions. This problem is happening more and more and more. And the only way we can protect ourselves is to make phones more and more secure.
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Phillipa Soo
American Actress
Everyone has a different interpretation of characters we know and love from Shakespeare, from 'Miller'. There's specific things about them that are written that are kind of the fingerprints of the first person who played that role, and so I like to think of it as a road map.
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Lloyd Alexander
American Writer
I guess there's only two possible places ideas can come from. One is the outside: everything that happens to you and everything that you do in life. And the other is the inside part: your own personality and imagination, and no two people are alike, like fingerprints.
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Queen Rania of Jordan
Jordanian Royalty
I think change needs to be egoless. It's not about my leaving my fingerprints or a legacy. It's more important to be part of a process by rolling up your sleeves, being on the ground, initiating projects, starting campaigns - you know, building stuff.
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Max Richter
German Composer
Black Mirror' obviously has its own universe, with a very strong fingerprint and strong themes, and I was intrigued on reading. It's such a powerful piece of storytelling.
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Jim Rohn
American Businessman
Character isn't something you were born with and can't change, like your fingerprints. It's something you weren't born with and must take responsibility for forming.
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Brian France
American Businessman
Social media and digital media will help us develop new fans and connect with our existing fans. It is an area we had to have our entire fingerprints on.
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Nick Woodman
American Businessman
Your passions are a bit like your fingerprints: Everybody has them; everybody's are different. One's passions may just be a guidebook to one's life.
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George Hill
American Athlete
I think putting your fingerprints on life in general speaks more value than this game of basketball can speak.
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Nancy Banks Smith
You carry forever the fingerprint that comes from being under someone's thumb.
Quote examples
Eddy Cue
American Businessman
In recent years, the government has lost more than five million fingerprints from government employees. They have lost hundreds of millions of credit numbers from financial institutions. This problem is happening more and more and more. And the only way we can protect ourselves is to make phones more and more secure.
Quote examples
Phillipa Soo
American Actress
Everyone has a different interpretation of characters we know and love from Shakespeare, from 'Miller'. There's specific things about them that are written that are kind of the fingerprints of the first person who played that role, and so I like to think of it as a road map.
Quote examples
Lloyd Alexander
American Writer
I guess there's only two possible places ideas can come from. One is the outside: everything that happens to you and everything that you do in life. And the other is the inside part: your own personality and imagination, and no two people are alike, like fingerprints.
Quote examples
Queen Rania of Jordan
Jordanian Royalty
I think change needs to be egoless. It's not about my leaving my fingerprints or a legacy. It's more important to be part of a process by rolling up your sleeves, being on the ground, initiating projects, starting campaigns - you know, building stuff.
Quote examples
Max Richter
German Composer
Black Mirror' obviously has its own universe, with a very strong fingerprint and strong themes, and I was intrigued on reading. It's such a powerful piece of storytelling.
Quote examples
Jim Rohn
American Businessman
Character isn't something you were born with and can't change, like your fingerprints. It's something you weren't born with and must take responsibility for forming.
Quote examples
Brian France
American Businessman
Social media and digital media will help us develop new fans and connect with our existing fans. It is an area we had to have our entire fingerprints on.
Quote examples
Nick Woodman
American Businessman
Your passions are a bit like your fingerprints: Everybody has them; everybody's are different. One's passions may just be a guidebook to one's life.
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George Hill
American Athlete
I think putting your fingerprints on life in general speaks more value than this game of basketball can speak.
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Nancy Banks Smith
You carry forever the fingerprint that comes from being under someone's thumb.
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