stamp 
stamp (stamp)
transitive verb
- to bring (the foot) down forcibly on the ground, a floor, etc.
- to strike down on forcibly with the foot to stamp the floor in anger
- to beat, crush, etc. in a specified way by treading on heavily to stamp the grass down to the earth
- to remove by stamping the foot or feet to stamp the snow from one's boots
- to pulverize (ore, etc.) by grinding or crushing
- to imprint or cut out (a mark, design, lettering, etc.) by bringing a form forcibly against a material to stamp initials in leather
- to cut out, form, or make as by applying a die to metal: often with out to stamp auto bodies
- to impress, mark, or imprint with some design, characters, etc., as to decorate or to show authenticity, ownership, sanction, or the like
- to impress or mark distinctly or indelibly the incident was stamped in her memory
- to put an official seal or a stamp on (a document, letter, etc.)
- to characterize or reveal distinctly, as if by imprinting the courage that stamped him as a hero
Etymology: ME stampen, akin to OHG stampfon < Gmc *stampon, *stampjan, to press to pieces < IE *stembh-, to crush < base *steb(h)-, a post, pole > staff, step, stump
intransitive verb
- to bring the foot down forcibly on the ground, a floor, etc.
- to walk with loud, heavy steps, as in anger, etc.
noun
- the act of stamping
- a machine, tool, etc. used for stamping or crushing ore, etc.
- any tool or implement, as a die, used by being forcibly brought against something to mark or shape it
- a mark or form made by such a tool or implement
- a mark, seal, impression, etc. used to show officially that a tax has been paid, authority given, etc.
- a small piece of paper, distinctively imprinted on the face and usually gummed on the back, issued by a government for a specified price and required to be affixed to a letter, parcel, document, commodity subject to duty, etc. as evidence that the prescribed fee, as for carrying mail, has been paid
- any piece of paper similar to a stamp, issued by an organization, business firm, etc. trading stamps
- any characteristic sign or impression; indication the stamp of truth
- character; kind; class; type
stamp out
- to beat, crush, or put out by treading on forcibly to stamp out a fire, a cigarette, etc.
- to crush, suppress, or put down (a revolt, rebellion, etc.)
stamp
n.
Object
- envelope: Put the bill in a stamped envelope with your payment.
- ground06: Whatever your age or dance experience stamping ground06 will take you on your own unforgettable creative journey.
Converse of object
- emboss: The female embossing stamp, or die is made from brass or steel with the desired impression being manually engraved on it.
- lick: Which sure as hell beats licking stamps in the square mile.
- bear: He reflects the glory of God and bears the very stamp of his nature, upholding the universe by his word of power.. .
Adjective modifier
- commemorative: Comment New Stamps: The Royal Mail is issuing three commemorative stamps to mark England's victory to win back the Ashes.
- indelible: May Massee left an indelible stamp on the world of children's literature.
- airmail: The two 1d Australian stamps are not postmarked, presumably because the New Zealand airmail stamp more than paid the postage to Great Britain.
- time/date: This morning I took a look at the event chart using the time/date stamp of the sent email.
- 1st: Please send a 23 x 10 cm ( 9 x 4 inch ) stamped addressed envelope ( 1st class stamp ) with your request.
Modifies a noun
- duty: Stamp duty on the average stamp London home up by more than £ 8,000.
- collecting: He was a member of the Arts Club and interested in competitive squash rackets ( until 1976 ), fly fishing and stamp collecting.
- threshold: He also raised the stamp duty threshold to £ 125,000 - a move he claimed would help an extra 400,000 homebuyers.
Noun used with modifier
- postage: Some are the size of a postage stamp; others run to several acres.
- rubber: Bet they have spent too long sniffing the ink on their rubber stamps to notice.
- letterbox: The other way of producing letterbox stamps is to get them made professionally.
- passport: It is illegal to work contrary to your passport stamp.
- valorem: Such transfers are not, of course, liable to United Kingdom ad valorem stamp duty but may be subject to local requirements.
Preposition: of
- approval: Parent & baby swimming lessons The Quays Swimming & Diving Complex gets stamp of approval First UK directory of child friendly swimming pools.
Is there for honest Poverty That hings his head, and a'that; The coward-slave, we pass him by, We dare be poor for a'that! For a'that, and a'that, Our toils obscure, and a'that, The rank is but the guinea's stamp, The man's the gowd for a'that.
We must however acknowledge, as it seems to me, that man with all his noble qualitiesstill bears in his bodily frame the indelible stamp of his lowly origin.
All science is either physics or stamp collecting.
Spirits of well-shot woodcock, partridge, snipe, Flutter and bear him up the Norfolk sky: In that red house in a red mahogany book-case The stamp collection waits with mounts long dry.
Custom is the most certain mistress of language, as the public stamp makes the current money.
If the husband be a man with whom you have lived on a friendly footing before marriage,öif you did not come inonthewife'sside,öif youdid not sneak intothehouse in her train, but were an old friend in first habits of intimacy before their courtship was so much as thought on,ölook about you Every long friendship, every old authentic intimacy, must be brought into their office to be new stamped with their currency, as a sovereign Prince calls in the good old money that was coined in some reign before he was born or thought of, to be new marked and minted with the stamp of his authority, before he will let it pass current in the world.
There are as many fools at a university as anywhere But their folly,I admit, has a certain stampöthe stamp of university training, if you like. It is trained folly.
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