fingerprint
/ˈfɪŋɡɚˌpɹɪnt/noun, verb3 syllables
Fingerprint means: a smudge made by a (dirty) finger.
Synonyms for fingerprint2
noun, as in a smudge made by a (dirty) finger
fingermark
What does fingerprint mean?4
noun
1
a smudge made by a (dirty) finger
2
a print made by an impression of the ridges in the skin of a finger; often used for biometric identification in criminal investigations
3
a generic term for any identifying characteristic“that tax bill had the senator's fingerprints all over it”
verb
1
take an impression of a person's fingerprints
Definitions from the Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.
Fingerprint in a sentence
- Without fingerprints, the police had nothing to go on.Amastan
- The first thing that caught his eye was a fingerprint on the glass.CK
- The police department didn't even have a fingerprint kit.Amastan
- Many biometric systems are based on the fingerprint scanner.Eldad
- His fingerprint was evidence that he was there.ET
- A giraffe's coat pattern is equivalent to a human's fingerprint.Amastan
- Ziri needed his mom's fingerprint to complete the payment process.Amastan
- Karl used the fingerprint scanner to open the latch.Amastan
Sentences from Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR, credited to their authors.
Forms of fingerprint
as a noun
- plural
- fingerprints
as a verb
- past tense
- fingerprinted
- present participle
- fingerprinting
- third-person singular
- fingerprints
- past participle
- fingerprinted