fingerprint
noun
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- verb
- adjective
- adverb
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Senses
Sense 1 noun
a print made by an impression of the ridges in the skin of a finger; often used for biometric identification in criminal investigations
Types & categories
- biometric identification hypernym
- print hypernym
- loop hyponym
- thumbprint hyponym
Related & opposite
- fingerprint derivation
Sense 2 verb
take an impression of a person's fingerprints
Types & categories
- reproduce hypernym
Related & opposite
- fingerprinting derivation
- fingermark derivation
- fingerprint derivation
Sense 3 noun
a generic term for any identifying characteristic
that tax bill had the senator's fingerprints all over it
Types & categories
- identification hypernym
Sense 4 noun
a smudge made by a (dirty) finger
Types & categories
- blot hypernym
Related & opposite
- fingerprint derivation
Table view of this graph
| Sense | Relation | Group | Word |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | derivation | Related & opposite | fingerprint |
| 1 | hypernym | Types & categories | biometric identification |
| 1 | hypernym | Types & categories | |
| 1 | hyponym | Types & categories | loop |
| 1 | hyponym | Types & categories | thumbprint |
| 2 | derivation | Related & opposite | fingerprinting |
| 2 | derivation | Related & opposite | fingermark |
| 2 | derivation | Related & opposite | fingerprint |
| 2 | hypernym | Types & categories | reproduce |
| 3 | hypernym | Types & categories | identification |
| 4 | derivation | Related & opposite | fingerprint |
| 4 | hypernym | Types & categories | blot |