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Stamp

noun

1.

The distinctive form in which a thing is made. Synonyms: cast, mold, mould.

2.

A type or class.

3.

A symbol that is the result of printing or engraving. Synonym: impression.

4.

A small adhesive token stuck on a letter or package to indicate that that postal fees have been paid. Synonyms: postage, postage stamp.

5.

Something that can be used as an official medium of payment. Synonyms: legal tender, tender.

6.

A small piece of adhesive paper that is put on an object to show that a government tax has been paid. Synonym: revenue stamp.

7.

Machine consisting of a heavy bar that moves vertically for pounding or crushing ores. Synonym: pestle.

8.

A block or die used to imprint a mark or design.

9.

A device incised to make an impression; used to secure a closing or to authenticate documents. Synonym: seal.

verb

(past & past part. stamped; pres. part. stamping)

1.

Walk heavily. Synonyms: stomp, stump.

2.

To mark, or produce an imprint in or on something.

3.

Reveal clearly as having a certain character.

4.

Affix a stamp to.

5.

Treat or classify according to a mental stereotype. Synonyms: pigeonhole, stereotype.

6.

Destroy or extinguish as if by stamping with the foot. "Stamp out tyranny"

7.

Form or cut out with a mold, form, or die.

8.

Crush or grind with a heavy instrument.

9.

Raise in a relief. Synonyms: boss, emboss.

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"Stamp" Quotes from Famous Books

... especially among gifted persons of acute and premature sensibilities, whose imagination, not yet focused by reality, overreached the mark. With Emma Lazarus, however, this sombre streak has a deeper root; something of birth and temperament is in it—the stamp and heritage of a race born to suffer. But dominant and fundamental though it was, Hebraism was only latent thus far. It was classic and romantic art that first attracted and inspired her. She pictures Aphrodite the beautiful, arising ...

— The Poems of Emma Lazarus - Vol. II. (of II.), Jewish Poems: Translations • Emma Lazarus

... than could any pedigree which more palpably connected him with the 'knightly' and 'squirely' families whose name he bore. It supplies the strong roots of English national life to which we instinctively refer it. Both the vivid originality of that genius and its healthy assimilative power stamp it as, in some sense, the product of virgin soil; and although the varied elements which entered into its growth were racial as well as cultural, and inherited as well as absorbed, the evidence of its strong natural or physical ...

— Life and Letters of Robert Browning • Mrs. Sutherland Orr

... science, the modern mind has perhaps been influenced most by the great idealist movement in philosophy—the movement which in Germany began with Kant and culminated in Hegel. This idealism, just like physical science, gives a certain stamp to the mind; when it takes possession of intelligence it casts it, so to speak, into a certain mould; even more than physical science it dominates it so that it becomes incapable of self-criticism, and very difficult to teach. Its importance ...

— The Atonement and the Modern Mind • James Denney

... center. The children then dance round this one, singing the first three lines of the verses given below. At the fourth line they stop dancing and act the words that are sung. They pretend to scatter seed; then stand at ease, stamp their feet, clap their hands, and at the words: "Turn him round," each ...

— Games For All Occasions • Mary E. Blain

... a reliable action it must be applied subcutaneously. For our experiments we have exclusively used a syringe decided upon by myself for bacteriological purposes, which is supplied with a small india-rubber ball and which has no stamp. Such a syringe can be easily kept positively aseptic by rinsing with absolutely pure alcohol and on this we base the fact that not a single abscess has sprung ...

— Prof. Koch's Method to Cure Tuberculosis Popularly Treated • Max Birnbaum

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