- 1指紋
The fine lines on the skin at the end of your finger make a pattern. That pattern — and the mark it leaves on glass, paper, or a scanner — is a fingerprint. Each person’s pattern is different, which is why the police copy it (with ink, or now more often with a machine) when they want to show that a certain person touched something. The copy in the file is also called a fingerprint. You can use it as a verb too: to fingerprint someone is to take those prints. People stretch the word a long way: a “fingerprint” can be any unique mark that shows who or what something is (a DNA fingerprint, a chemical fingerprint). The police sense is the one meet first; the stretched sense is common in news and science. It is an ordinary word, not slang, and it does not only belong to criminals — banks, phones, and immigration desks use fingerprints to check who you are.
From the word’s history
Compound of finger + print.
由 finger「手指」加 print「印」組成。
組成finger + print: the end of your finger, plus a mark left by pressing.
同家族的字
- fingerthe body part whose tip leaves the mark
- printa mark left by pressing something onto a surface
- footprintthe same print, “a mark left behind,” but from a foot
- fingerprintingthe work of taking fingerprints and matching them
原始詞典資料7 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，摘錄並精簡格式，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
fingerprintnoun/ˈfɪŋɡɚˌpɹɪnt/
- 1
The natural pattern of ridges on the tips of human fingers, unique to each individual.
- 2
The pattern left on a surface where an uncovered fingertip has touched, especially as used to identify the person who touched the surface.
- Nervously, he wiped the gun of fingerprints real and imaginary with the stocking-covered fingers.
- The crime scene investigator has the responsibility of collecting latent fingerprints.
- 3
A unique combination of features that serves as an identification of something.
- acoustic fingerprint
- Most pharmacopoeial monographs of medicinal plants include TLC as method for identification based on a chromatographic fingerprint, which consists of a sequence of characteristic substance zones.
- 4
computingcryptographyengineeringA unique identification for a public key in asymmetric cryptography.
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A trace that gives evidence of someone's involvement.
- And continue to ask yourself the question, could the incredible complexity of the human body with its multitudinous specialized functions have come into being completely by chance or is it another fingerprint of God?
fingerprintverb/ˈfɪŋɡɚˌpɹɪnt/
- 1
To take somebody's fingerprints.
- The jail staff fingerprints its inmates routinely
- Too often, the union says, farmers feel the police response is inadequate and the sentencing too lenient. It’s a view seemingly shared by one of the latest victims of bee rustling, Norfolk bee keeper Simon Greenwood, who told the Observer that police had taken some photos of the scene, fingerprinted a can and then sent him a letter to say no further action was being taken.
- 2
To identify something uniquely by a combination of measurements.
- Analytical results from this combination of leach tests are tools that allow the investigator to quantify (fingerprint) which geochemical components could be expected in runoff from these piles if they were leached by a cloudburst...
- A significant disadvantage of DNA fingerprinting that excludes conventional methods of population genetic analysis is an absence of genetic interpretation of hybridization fragment origin.
摘錄自 英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary，已精簡格式；依 CC BY-SA 4.0 授權使用，改動後的內容同樣以此授權提供。