fingerprint
fing ger print
- n a print made by an impression of the ridges in the skin of a finger; often used for biometric identification in criminal investigations
- n a generic term for any identifying characteristic
that tax bill had the senator's fingerprints all over it - n a smudge made by a (dirty) finger
- v take an impression of a person's fingerprints
- A fingerprint check came up with his identity, as it would for most males in Taiwan, who are printed before the island-state's two-year manadatory military service: Lin Chih-hao, a .
- Many corporations (notably insurance companies) fingerprint job applicants.
- The judge later reversed himself, but, says assistant federal defender Robert Epstein, who brought a challenge to the admission of fingerprint evidence in a robbery case, "even .