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Noun finger-print has 3 senses
- fingerprint - biometric identification from a print made by an impression of the ridges in the skin of a finger; often used as evidence in criminal investigations
--1 is a kind of print, black and white; biometric identification, biometric authentication, identity verification
--1 has particulars: loop; thumbprint
- fingerprint - a generic term for any identifying characteristic; "that tax bill had the senator's fingerprints all over it"
--2 is a kind of identification
- fingermark, fingerprint - a smudge made by a (dirty) finger
--3 is a kind of smudge, spot, blot, daub, smear, smirch, slur
Verb finger-print has 1 sense
- fingerprint - take an impression of a person's fingerprints
--1 is one way to reproduce
Sample sentence:
They want to fingerprint the prisoners
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