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Wordnet 3.0

NOUN (3)

1. a print made by an impression of the ridges in the skin of a finger; often used for biometric identification in criminal investigations;

2. a generic term for any identifying characteristic;
- Example: "that tax bill had the senator's fingerprints all over it"

3. a smudge made by a (dirty) finger;
[syn: fingermark, fingerprint]


VERB (1)

1. take an impression of a person's fingerprints;


The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

Fingerprint \Fin"ger*print\, n. [Finger + print.] 1. an impression of the pattern of ridges on the skin of the last joint of a person's finger, left on a surface after a person has touched the surface. Note: Fingerprints left by persons who have committed crimes are considered as reliable physical evidence linking an individual with a crime, because each person's fingerprints are distinctively different from those of others, allowing identification of a person with high confidence. [PJC] 2. a fingerprint[1] made intentionally in ink on a paper form for the purpose of identification of the individual. [PJC] 3. any distinctive pattern of characteristics or properties of an object which can serve to identify that object; as, the distinctive fingerprint of eugenol in the mass spectrum allowed easy recognition of its presence in the sample. [PJC] 4. a smudge made by a (dirty) finger. [WordNet sense 3] Syn: fingermark. [WordNet 1.5]
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

fingerprint \fin"ger*print\ v. t. to take an impression of the fingerprints of (a person); as, to fingerprint applicants for a gun permit. [WordNet 1.5 +PJC]
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):

fingerprint n 1: a print made by an impression of the ridges in the skin of a finger; often used for biometric identification in criminal investigations 2: a generic term for any identifying characteristic; "that tax bill had the senator's fingerprints all over it" 3: a smudge made by a (dirty) finger [syn: fingermark, fingerprint] v 1: take an impression of a person's fingerprints
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0:

40 Moby Thesaurus words for "fingerprint": boss, bump, colophon, concavity, convexity, dactylogram, dactylograph, dent, dint, embossment, excrescence, footmark, footprint, footstep, fossil footprint, ichnite, ichnolite, impress, impression, imprint, indent, indentation, indention, lump, pad, paw print, pawmark, pimple, print, pug, pugmark, seal, sigil, signet, stamp, step, stud, thumbmark, thumbprint, vestige