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fingerprints

4 definitions • 3 examples
1
the pattern of curved lines on the end of a finger or thumb that is different in every person, or a mark left by this pattern:

Examples:

His fingerprints were all over the gun.
take fingerprints The police have taken fingerprints from every man in the neighbourhood.
2
a mark left by dirt or oil from someone's finger on a clean surface
3
to record the pattern of someone's fingerprints:

Examples:

We would like to fingerprint every one of your employees.
4
the mark left by the pattern of curved lines on the end of a finger or thumb

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