stamp
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /stæmp/
rhymes: -æmp
Forms: form: stamps
form: stamping
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Etymology: From Middle English stampen (“to pound, crush”), from assumed Old English *stampian, variant of Old English stempan (“to crush, pound, pound in mortar, stamp”), from Proto-West Germanic *stampōn, *stampijan, from Proto-Germanic *stampōną, *stampijaną (“to trample, beat”), from Proto-Indo-European *stemb- (“to trample down”).
Cognate with Dutch stampen (“to stamp, pitch”), German stampfen (“to stamp”), Danish stampe (“to stamp”), Swedish stampa (“to stomp”), Occitan estampar, Polish stąpać (“to step, treat”). See also stomp, step. Marks indicating that postage had been paid were originally made by stamping the item to be mailed; when affixed pieces of paper were introduced for this purpose, the term “stamp” was transferred to cover this new form.
Senses: examples: text: The toddler screamed and stamped, but still got no candy.
glosses: To step quickly and heavily, once or repeatedly.
examples: text: The crowd cheered and stamped their feet in appreciation.
text: The native peoples with vocal cords located in the respiratory organs initiate simple communication with slimes by stamping their feet.
ref: 2020, Salt Seno, translated by Amanda Haley, Heterogenia Linguistico: An Introduction to Interspecies Linguistics, page 40:
glosses: To move (the foot or feet) quickly and heavily, once or repeatedly.
examples: text: Vnder my feet I stampe thy Cardinalls Hat:
ref: 1591 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The First Part of Henry the Sixt”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act I, scene iii]:
text: He frets, he fumes, he stares, he stamps the ground.
ref: 1697, Virgil, “Palamon and Arcite”, in John Dryden, transl., The Works of Virgil: Containing His Pastorals, Georgics, and Æneis. […], London: […] Jacob Tonson, […], →OCLC:
glosses: To strike, beat, or press forcibly with the bottom of the foot, or by thrusting the foot downward.
examples: text: This machine stamps the metal cover with a design.
text: This machine stamps the design into the metal cover.
glosses: To mark by pressing quickly and heavily.
examples: text: The immigration officer stamped my passport.
glosses: To give an official marking to, generally by impressing or imprinting a design or symbol.
examples: text: I forgot to stamp this letter.
glosses: To apply postage stamps to.
examples: text: , Book IV, Chapter X
God […] has stamped no original characters on our minds wherein we may read his being.
text: England's superior conditioning began to show in the final quarter and as the game began to break up, their three-quarters began to stamp their authority on the game. And when Foden went on a mazy run from inside his own 22 and put Ashton in for a long-range try, any threat of an upset was when and truly snuffed out.
ref: 2011 September 18, Ben Dirs, “Rugby World Cup 2011: England 41-10 Georgia”, in BBC Sport:
glosses: To mark; to impress.
Synonyms: sense: pressing with the foot
word: stomp
sense: mark by pressing quickly and heavily
word: emboss
sense: mark by pressing quickly and heavily
word: dent
sense: give an official marking to
word: impress
sense: give an official marking to
word: imprint
Related terms: date stamp
postage stamp
rubber stamp
stamp album
stamp-collecting
stamp duty
stamping ground
stamp of approval
stamp out
timestamp