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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

... relying on the theories of jurists, who without practical genius for politics make arbitrary rules for the control of state-affairs. Yet even Varchi shares the prevailing conviction that the proper method is first to excogitate a perfect political system, and then to impress that like a stamp upon the material of the commonwealth. His criticism is directed against lawyers, not against ...

— Renaissance in Italy, Volume 1 (of 7) • John Addington Symonds

... proceeded into the tortuous twists of streets that stamp the old Greenwich village with a character all its own, the worse it seemed to get. Decrepit relics of every style of architecture from almost the earliest times in the city stood out in the darkness, like ...

— Guy Garrick • Arthur B. Reeve

... 19: The British Museum contains a great number of books which bear the royal stamp of Henry VII.'s arms. Some of these printed by Verard, UPON VELLUM, are magnificent memorials of a library, the dispersion of which is for ever to be regretted. As Henry VIII. knew nothing of, and cared less for, fine books, it is not very improbable that some of ...

— Bibliomania; or Book-Madness - A Bibliographical Romance • Thomas Frognall Dibdin

... Ivy, lifting a protesting hand. "And is no effort being made to stamp out such iniquities in China? Might not some concerted action on the part of the women's clubs in all the Christian countries create a ...

— A Romance of Billy-Goat Hill • Alice Hegan Rice

... episodes of their poems, introduced a picture of the infernal regions; but nothing on the plan of Dante's Inferno had before been thought of in the world. With much of the machinery of the ancients, it bears the stamp of the spiritual faith of modern times. It lays bare the heart in a way unknown even to Homer and Euripides. It reveals the inmost man in a way which bespeaks the centuries of self-reflection in the cloister which had preceded ...

— Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine -- Volume 57, No. 351, January 1845 • Various

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