'Stamp' definitions:
Definition of 'stamp'
From: WordNet
noun
The distinctive form in which a thing is made; "pottery of this cast was found throughout the region" [syn: cast, mold, mould, stamp]
noun
A type or class; "more men of his stamp are needed"
noun
A symbol that is the result of printing or engraving; "he put his stamp on the envelope" [syn: stamp, impression]
noun
A small adhesive token stuck on a letter or package to indicate that that postal fees have been paid [syn: postage, postage stamp, stamp]
noun
Something that can be used as an official medium of payment [syn: tender, legal tender, stamp]
noun
A small piece of adhesive paper that is put on an object to show that a government tax has been paid [syn: revenue stamp, stamp]
noun
Machine consisting of a heavy bar that moves vertically for pounding or crushing ores [syn: stamp, pestle]
noun
A block or die used to imprint a mark or design
noun
A device incised to make an impression; used to secure a closing or to authenticate documents [syn: seal, stamp]
verb
verb
To mark, or produce an imprint in or on something; "a man whose name is permanently stamped on our maps"
verb
Reveal clearly as having a certain character; "His playing stamps him as a Romantic"
verb
Affix a stamp to; "Are the letters properly stamped?"
verb
Treat or classify according to a mental stereotype; "I was stereotyped as a lazy Southern European" [syn: pigeonhole, stereotype, stamp]
verb
Destroy or extinguish as if by stamping with the foot; "Stamp fascism into submission"; "stamp out tyranny"
verb
Form or cut out with a mold, form, or die; "stamp needles"
verb
Crush or grind with a heavy instrument; "stamp fruit extract the juice"
verb
Definition of 'Stamp'
From: GCIDE
- Stamp \Stamp\ (st[a^]mp) v. t. [imp. & p. p. Stamped (st[a^]mt; 215); p. pr. & vb. n. Stamping.] [OE. stampen; akin to LG. & D. stampen, G. stampfen, OHG. stampf[=o]n, Dan. stampe, Sw. stampa, Icel. stappa, G. stampf a pestle and E. step. See Step, v. i., and cf. Stampede.]
- 1. To strike beat, or press forcibly with the bottom of the foot, or by thrusting the foot downward. --Shak. [1913 Webster]
- He frets, he fumes, he stares, he stamps the ground. --Dryden. [1913 Webster]
- 2. To bring down (the foot) forcibly on the ground or floor; as, he stamped his foot with rage. [1913 Webster]
- 3. To crush; to pulverize; specifically (Metal.), to crush by the blow of a heavy stamp, as ore in a mill. [1913 Webster]
- I took your sin, the calf which ye had made, and burnt it with fire, and stamped it, and ground it very small. --Deut. ix. 21. [1913 Webster]
- 4. To impress with some mark or figure; as, to stamp a plate with arms or initials. [1913 Webster]
- 5. Fig.: To impress; to imprint; to fix deeply; as, to stamp virtuous principles on the heart. [1913 Webster]
- God . . . has stamped no original characters on our minds wherein we may read his being. --Locke. [1913 Webster]
- 6. To cut out, bend, or indent, as paper, sheet metal, etc., into various forms, by a blow or suddenly applied pressure with a stamp or die, etc.; to mint; to coin. [1913 Webster]
- 7. To put a stamp on, as for postage; as, to stamp a letter; to stamp a legal document. [1913 Webster]
- To stamp out, to put an end to by sudden and energetic action; to extinguish; as, to stamp out a rebellion. [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'Stamp'
From: GCIDE
- Stamp \Stamp\, v. i.
- 1. To strike; to beat; to crush. [1913 Webster]
- These cooks how they stamp and strain and grind. --Chaucer. [1913 Webster]
- 2. To strike the foot forcibly downward. [1913 Webster]
- But starts, exclaims, and stamps, and raves, and dies. --Dennis. [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'Stamp'
From: GCIDE
- Stamp \Stamp\, n.
- 1. The act of stamping, as with the foot. [1913 Webster]
- 2. The which stamps; any instrument for making impressions on other bodies, as a die. [1913 Webster]
- 'T is gold so pure It can not bear the stamp without alloy. --Dryden. [1913 Webster]
- 3. The mark made by stamping; a mark imprinted; an impression. [1913 Webster]
- That sacred name gives ornament and grace, And, like his stamp, makes basest metals pass. --Dryden. [1913 Webster]
- 4. That which is marked; a thing stamped. [1913 Webster]
- Hanging a golden stamp about their necks. --Shak. [1913 Webster]
- 5. [F. estampe, of German origin. See Stamp, v. t.] A picture cut in wood or metal, or made by impression; a cut; a plate. [Obs.] [1913 Webster]
- At Venice they put out very curious stamps of the several edifices which are most famous for their beauty and magnificence. --Addison. [1913 Webster]
- 6. An official mark set upon things chargeable with a duty or tax to government, as evidence that the duty or tax is paid; as, the stamp on a bill of exchange. [1913 Webster]
- 7. Hence: A stamped or printed device, usually paper, issued by the government at a fixed price, and required by law to be affixed to, or stamped on, certain papers, as evidence that the government dues are paid; as, a postage stamp; a tax stamp; a receipt stamp, etc. [1913 Webster]
- 8. An instrument for cutting out, or shaping, materials, as paper, leather, etc., by a downward pressure. [1913 Webster]
- 9. A character or reputation, good or bad, fixed on anything as if by an imprinted mark; current value; authority; as, these persons have the stamp of dishonesty; the Scriptures bear the stamp of a divine origin. [1913 Webster]
- Of the same stamp is that which is obtruded on us, that an adamant suspends the attraction of the loadstone. --Sir T. Browne. [1913 Webster]
- 10. Make; cast; form; character; as, a man of the same stamp, or of a different stamp. [1913 Webster]
- A soldier of this season's stamp. --Shak. [1913 Webster]
- 11. A kind of heavy hammer, or pestle, raised by water or steam power, for beating ores to powder; anything like a pestle, used for pounding or beating. [1913 Webster]
- 12. A half-penny. [Obs.] --Beau. & Fl. [1913 Webster]
- 13. pl. Money, esp. paper money. [Slang, U.S.] [1913 Webster]
- Stamp act, an act of the British Parliament [1765] imposing a duty on all paper, vellum, and parchment used in the American colonies, and declaring all writings on unstamped materials to be null and void.
- Stamp collector, (a) an officer who receives or collects stamp duties. (b) one who collects postage or other stamps, as an avocation or for investment; a philatelist.
- Stamp duty, a duty, or tax, imposed on paper and parchment used for certain writings, as deeds, conveyances, etc., the evidence of the payment of the duty or tax being a stamp. [Eng.]
- Stamp hammer, a hammer, worked by power, which rises and falls vertically, like a stamp in a stamp mill.
- Stamp head, a heavy mass of metal, forming the head or lower end of a bar, which is lifted and let fall, in a stamp mill.
- Stamp mill (Mining), a mill in which ore is crushed with stamps; also, a machine for stamping ore.
- Stamp note, a stamped certificate from a customhouse officer, which allows goods to be received by the captain of a ship as freight. [Eng.]
- Stamp office, an office for the issue of stamps and the reception of stamp duties. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'stamp'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- abolish,
- acceptance,
- aesthetic form,
- affirmance,
- affirmation,
- amble,
- animus,
- annihilate,
- approbation,
- approval,
- aptitude,
- archetype,
- aroma,
- art form,
- ascender,
- attribute,
- authentication,
- authorization,
- back,
- badge,
- banner,
- barge,
- bastard type,
- beard,
- bed,
- belly,
- bent,
- bevel,
- bias,
- billhead,
- black letter,
- blaze,
- blaze a trail,
- blemish,
- block,
- block out,
- blood,
- blotch,
- body,
- body-build,
- book stamp,
- bookplate,
- boss,
- bowl along,
- brand,
- breed,
- bring home to,
- bring out,
- broad arrow,
- build,
- bump,
- bundle,
- burin,
- cachet,
- cancellation,
- cap,
- capital,
- cartouche,
- carve,
- case,
- cast,
- casting,
- categorize,
- certification,
- chalk,
- chalk up,
- character,
- characteristic,
- characteristics,
- characterize,
- check,
- check off,
- chisel,
- cicatrize,
- clan,
- class,
- classification,
- classify,
- clomp,
- clop,
- clump,
- coat of arms,
- colophon,
- color,
- complexion,
- composition,
- concavity,
- configuration,
- confirm,
- confirmation,
- conformation,
- constituents,
- constitution,
- convexity,
- counter,
- counterfoil,
- countermark,
- countersignature,
- crasis,
- create,
- crest,
- cut,
- dactylogram,
- dactylograph,
- dapple,
- dash,
- deep-dye,
- define,
- delimit,
- demarcate,
- denominate,
- denomination,
- dent,
- depress,
- descender,
- description,
- designate,
- designation,
- destroy,
- device,
- dharma,
- diathesis,
- die,
- differentia,
- differential,
- dimple,
- dint,
- discolor,
- disposition,
- distinctive feature,
- docket,
- document,
- dot,
- drag,
- drive,
- drub,
- earmark,
- eccentricity,
- efform,
- eliminate,
- em,
- embed,
- emblem,
- emboss,
- embossment,
- en,
- end,
- endorsement,
- engraft,
- engrave,
- engrave on,
- engraving tool,
- entrench,
- eradicate,
- escutcheon,
- establish,
- etch,
- etching ball,
- etching ground,
- etching needle,
- etching point,
- ethos,
- excrescence,
- exterminate,
- extinguish,
- extirpate,
- face,
- fashion,
- fat-faced type,
- feather,
- feature,
- features,
- feet,
- fiber,
- figuration,
- figure,
- fingerprint,
- fix,
- flavor,
- fleck,
- flounce,
- font,
- foot,
- footmark,
- footprint,
- footslog,
- footstep,
- forge,
- form,
- formalize,
- format,
- formation,
- fossil footprint,
- found,
- frame,
- frank,
- freckle,
- gash,
- genius,
- genre,
- genus,
- get out,
- get rid of,
- go-ahead,
- government mark,
- government stamp,
- grade,
- grain,
- grave,
- graver,
- green light,
- groove,
- ground,
- gust,
- habit,
- hallmark,
- halt,
- hammer,
- hatch,
- hectograph,
- hew,
- hippety-hop,
- hitch,
- hobble,
- hop,
- hue,
- humor,
- humors,
- ichnite,
- ichnolite,
- identify,
- idiocrasy,
- idiosyncrasy,
- ilk,
- image,
- impact,
- implant,
- impress,
- impress upon,
- impression,
- imprimatur,
- imprint,
- inclination,
- inculcate,
- indent,
- indentation,
- indention,
- index,
- indicant,
- indicator,
- individualism,
- infix,
- ingrain,
- initial,
- initials,
- inner form,
- inscribe,
- insignia,
- instill,
- intaglio,
- issue,
- italic,
- jam,
- jog,
- John Hancock,
- jolt,
- jump,
- keynote,
- kidney,
- kill,
- kin,
- kind,
- knead,
- knock out,
- label,
- last,
- lay out,
- layout,
- leaning,
- letter,
- letterhead,
- letterpress,
- level,
- lick into shape,
- ligature,
- limp,
- line,
- lineaments,
- lodge,
- log,
- logo,
- logotype,
- lot,
- lower case,
- lumber,
- lump,
- lunge,
- lurch,
- mackle,
- majuscule,
- make,
- make a mark,
- make it felt,
- makeup,
- manner,
- mannerism,
- mark,
- mark off,
- mark out,
- marking,
- masthead,
- matrix,
- measure,
- mental set,
- mettle,
- mimeograph,
- mince,
- mind,
- mind-set,
- mint,
- minuscule,
- modality,
- mode,
- model,
- mold,
- molding,
- monogram,
- mottle,
- mould,
- multigraph,
- name,
- nature,
- needle,
- negative,
- nick,
- nod,
- notarization,
- notch,
- note,
- number,
- odor,
- offcut,
- offprint,
- offset,
- OK,
- okay,
- overprint,
- pace,
- pack,
- pad,
- paddle,
- particularity,
- pattern,
- paw print,
- pawmark,
- peculiarity,
- peg,
- pencil,
- pepper,
- permission,
- persuasion,
- phylum,
- physique,
- pi,
- piaffe,
- piaffer,
- pica,
- picture,
- pimple,
- pit,
- plant,
- plate,
- Platonic form,
- Platonic idea,
- plod,
- pock,
- pockmark,
- point,
- postage,
- postage stamp,
- postmark,
- pound,
- prance,
- predilection,
- predisposition,
- preference,
- press in,
- price tag,
- prick,
- print,
- proclivity,
- proof,
- propensity,
- property,
- prototype,
- prove,
- publish,
- pug,
- pugmark,
- pull,
- pull a proof,
- punch,
- punch in,
- punctuate,
- puncture,
- put down,
- put out,
- put to bed,
- put to press,
- quality,
- quell,
- quirk,
- race,
- rack,
- ratification,
- recess,
- record,
- register,
- registered trademark,
- reissue,
- representation,
- representative,
- repress,
- reprint,
- riddle,
- rocker,
- roll,
- roman,
- root,
- rough out,
- roughcast,
- roughhew,
- rubber stamp,
- run,
- run off,
- running head,
- running title,
- sanction,
- sans serif,
- sashay,
- saunter,
- savor,
- scar,
- scarify,
- score,
- scorper,
- scotch,
- scratch,
- script,
- scuff,
- scuffle,
- sculpt,
- sculpture,
- scuttle,
- seal,
- seam,
- seat,
- service mark,
- set,
- set back,
- set in,
- setoff,
- settle,
- shamble,
- shank,
- shape,
- shoe last,
- shuffle,
- sidle,
- sigil,
- sign,
- signal,
- signature,
- signet,
- significant form,
- single-foot,
- singularity,
- skip,
- slant,
- slink,
- slither,
- slog,
- slouch,
- smack,
- small cap,
- small capital,
- snuff out,
- somatotype,
- sort,
- specialty,
- species,
- speck,
- speckle,
- spirit,
- splotch,
- spot,
- squelch,
- stagger,
- stain,
- stalk,
- stamp of approval,
- stamp on,
- stamp out,
- stem,
- step,
- stereotype,
- sticker,
- stigmatize,
- stomp,
- straddle,
- straggle,
- strain,
- streak,
- striate,
- stride,
- strike,
- stripe,
- stroll,
- structure,
- strut,
- stub,
- stud,
- stump,
- style,
- subdue,
- subscription,
- suchness,
- suppress,
- sure sign,
- swagger,
- swing,
- symbol,
- symptom,
- system,
- tab,
- tag,
- tailor,
- taint,
- tally,
- tamp,
- tang,
- taste,
- tattoo,
- telltale sign,
- temper,
- temperament,
- template,
- tendency,
- tenor,
- term,
- terminate,
- the like of,
- the likes of,
- the nod,
- thermoform,
- thumbmark,
- thumbprint,
- tick,
- tick off,
- ticket,
- title page,
- tittup,
- toddle,
- token,
- tone,
- totter,
- trace,
- trade name,
- trademark,
- trademark name,
- traipse,
- trait,
- traits,
- tramp,
- trample,
- tread,
- tribe,
- trick,
- trip,
- trudge,
- turn,
- turn of mind,
- twist,
- type,
- type body,
- type class,
- type lice,
- typecase,
- typeface,
- typefounders,
- typefoundry,
- underline,
- underscore,
- upper case,
- validation,
- variety,
- vein,
- vestige,
- visa,
- vise,
- waddle,
- wamble,
- warp,
- warrant,
- way,
- wedge,
- wiggle,
- wobble,
- work
Words containing 'Stamp'
- Stamped,
- Stamping,
- Stamps,
- To stamp out,
- stamp down,
- stamp out,
- Hand stamp,
- Postage stamp,
- Stamp act,
- Stamp collector,
- Stamp duty,
- Stamp hammer,
- Stamp head,
- Stamp mill,
- Stamp note,
- Stamp office,
- Stamping Ground,
- Stamping machine,
- Stamping mill,
- Stamps, AR,
- Wood stamp,
- butter stamp,
- date stamp,
- food stamp,
- revenue stamp,
- rubber stamp,
- stamp album,
- stamp battery,
- stamp collecting,
- stamp collection,
- stamp dealer,
- stamp pad,
- stamp tax,
- trading stamp,
- Stamping Ground, KY