imprint vs symbol

imprint

noun
  • A distinctive marking, symbol or logo. 

  • The name and details of a publisher or printer, as printed in a book etc.; a publishing house. 

  • An impression; the mark left behind by printing something. 

verb
  • To leave a print, impression, image, etc. 

  • To mark a gene as being from a particular parent so that only one of the two copies of the gene is expressed. 

  • To learn something indelibly at a particular stage of life, such as who one's parents are. 

symbol

noun
  • A character or glyph representing an idea, concept or object. 

  • A type of noun whereby the form refers to the same entity independently of the context; a symbol arbitrarily denotes a referent. See also icon and index. 

  • A signalling event on a communications channel; a signal that cannot be further divided into meaningful information. 

  • An internal identifier used by a debugger to relate parts of the compiled program to the corresponding names in the source code. 

  • A summary of a dogmatic statement of faith. 

  • The numerical expression which defines a plane's position relative to the assumed axes. 

  • A thing considered the embodiment of a concept or object. 

verb
  • To symbolize. 

How often have the words imprint and symbol occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )