fingerprint

«fingerprint» in Mova's school dictionary: The pattern of tiny lines on the tip of each finger, or… — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 3 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

part of speech

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

meaning for a pupil

1) The pattern of tiny lines on the tip of each finger, or the mark it leaves on a surface. tree →

2) (verb) To take a record of someone's fingerprints, for example by the police. tree →

3) A special mark that shows who made something or where it came from. tree →

sense 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 →
• No two people have the same fingerprints, not even twins. tree →
• I unlock my mum's tablet with my fingerprint. tree →
• Press your finger on the ink pad to make a fingerprint. tree →
• The police fingerprinted the suspect. tree →
• There are sticky fingerprints all over the fridge door! tree →

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.

In the corpora

• A spider monkey's tail grips a branch like a fifth hand, with ridged bare skin on the tip like a fingerprint.
• Koalas have fingerprints so like ours that they could confuse a detective.
• Some shops already test paying with your face or fingerprint.

Trees and pragmatics

Every meaning and example of «fingerprint» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.