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# fingerprint

noun (fingerprint, fingerprints); verb (fingerprint, fingerprints, fingerprinted, fingerprinting)

«fingerprint» in the English dictionary: everyday — its meanings, how the lessons use it, and examples, each with its tree on Mova.

## Everyday

1. The pattern of tiny lines on the tip of each finger, or the mark it leaves on a surface. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/fingerprint/#m1)
2. (verb) To take a record of someone's fingerprints, for example by the police. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/fingerprint/#m2)
3. A special mark that shows who made something or where it came from. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/fingerprint/#m3)

### In the lessons

In science lessons pupils study loops, whorls and arches and learn that every person's fingerprints are different. In detective stories fingerprints help to catch a thief. Phones can unlock with a fingerprint. Phrases: leave fingerprints, take fingerprints, fingerprint scanner, dust for fingerprints.

### Examples

- The detective found fingerprints on the window. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/fingerprint/#x1)
- No two people have the same fingerprints, not even twins. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/fingerprint/#x2)
- I unlock my mum's tablet with my fingerprint. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/fingerprint/#x3)
- Press your finger on the ink pad to make a fingerprint. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/fingerprint/#x4)
- The police fingerprinted the suspect. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/fingerprint/#x5)
- There are sticky fingerprints all over the fridge door! [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/fingerprint/#x6)

### Note

Compound noun: finger + print. Identical twins share DNA but still have different fingerprints. Fingerprints form before birth and do not change as you grow, only get bigger.

## On Mova

- [Trees and pragmatics of «fingerprint» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/fingerprint/): every meaning and example parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.
- [«fingerprint» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/school/w/fingerprint.html) on Mova free.