stamp
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Germanic *stampōną
Proto-Germanic *stampijaną?
Proto-West Germanic *stampijander.
Old English stempan
Old English *stampian
Middle English stampen
English stamp
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 Marks indicating that postage had been paid were originally made by stamping the item to be mailed; when affixed pieces of paper were introduced for this purpose, the term “stamp” was transferred to cover this new form.
Inflected forms:
form: stamps
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: stamps
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: stamping
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: stamped
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: stamped
pos: verb
tags: past
form: no-table-tags
pos: verb
tags: table-tags
form: glossary
pos: verb
tags: inflection-template
form: stamp
pos: verb
tags: infinitive
form: stamp
pos: verb
tags: first-person
present
singular
form: stamped
pos: verb
tags: first-person
past
singular
form: stamp
pos: verb
tags: present
second-person
singular
form: stampest
pos: verb
tags: archaic
present
second-person
singular
form: stamped
pos: verb
tags: past
second-person
singular
form: stampedst
pos: verb
tags: archaic
past
second-person
singular
form: stamps
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: stampeth
pos: verb
tags: archaic
present
singular
third-person
form: stamped
pos: verb
tags: past
singular
third-person
form: stamp
pos: verb
tags: plural
present
form: stamped
pos: verb
tags: past
plural
form: stamp
pos: verb
tags: present
subjunctive
form: stamped
pos: verb
tags: past
subjunctive
form: stamp
pos: verb
tags: imperative
present
form: -
pos: verb
tags: imperative
past
form: stamping
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: stamped
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
Senses:
gloss: An act of stamping the foot, paw or hoof.
pos: noun
examples: The horse gave two quick stamps and rose up on its hind legs.
Just then there was a sound of footsteps, and the Boy ran past near them, and with a stamp of feet and a flash of white tails the two strange rabbits disappeared.
gloss: An indentation, imprint, or mark made by stamping.
pos: noun
examples: My passport has quite a collection of stamps.
gloss: A device for imprinting designs.
pos: noun
examples: She loved to make designs with her collection of stamps.
Close to the register is a box of stamps adorned with logos of local business, including one for B cup cafe around the block.
gloss: A small piece of paper, with a design and a face value, used to prepay postage or other dues such as tax or licence fees.
pos: noun
examples: I need one first-class stamp to send this letter.
Now that commerce is done electronically, tax stamps are no longer issued here.
gloss: A small piece of paper bearing a design on one side and adhesive on the other, used to decorate letters or craft work.
pos: noun
examples: These stamps have a Christmas theme.
gloss: A tattoo.
pos: noun
tags: figuratively
slang
gloss: A single dose of lysergic acid diethylamide.
pos: noun
tags: slang
gloss: A kind of heavy pestle, raised by water or steam power, for crushing ores.
pos: noun
gloss: Cast; form; character; distinguishing mark or sign; evidence.
pos: noun
examples: the stamp of criminality
It is trial and examination must give it price, and not any antique fashion; and though it be not yet current by the public stamp, yet it may, for all that, be as old as nature, and is certainly not the less genuine.
At a short distance from her were a pair of bathers of a very different stamp, if their operations deserved the name of bathing at all, viz., two girls on the confines of womanhood, presenting strong contrast to each other […]
Now, the horses at that period were all of a sturdy stamp[…]
gloss: To step quickly and heavily, once or repeatedly.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: The toddler screamed and stamped, but still got no candy.
gloss: To move (the foot or feet) quickly and heavily, once or repeatedly.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: The crowd cheered and stamped their feet in appreciation.
The native peoples with vocal cords located in the respiratory organs initiate simple communication with slimes by stamping their feet.
gloss: To strike, beat, or press forcibly with the bottom of the foot, or by thrusting the foot downward.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: Vnder my feet I stampe thy Cardinalls Hat:
He frets, he fumes, he stares, he stamps the ground.
gloss: To mark by pressing quickly and heavily.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: This machine stamps the metal cover with a design.
This machine stamps the design into the metal cover.
gloss: To give an official marking to, generally by impressing or imprinting a design or symbol.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: The immigration officer stamped my passport.
gloss: To apply postage stamps to.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: I forgot to stamp this letter.
gloss: To mark; to impress.
pos: verb
tags: figuratively
transitive
examples: , Book IV, Chapter X
God […] has stamped no original characters on our minds wherein we may read his being.
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.
Synonyms: postage stamp
revenue stamp
tax stamp
stomp
Related words: date stamp
postage stamp
rubber stamp
stamp album
stamp-collecting
stamp duty
stamping ground
stamp of approval
stamp out
timestamp
Derived words: artistamp
book stamp
brick stamp
brickstamp
charity stamp
cinderella stamp
clinical stamp
datestamp
duck stamp
enstamp
fiscal stamp
food stamp
forever stamp
green stamp
handstamp
headstamp
health stamp
hot stamp
leave one's stamp
letter-stamp
meter stamp
microstamp
mushroom stamp
postage-due stamp
postage due stamp
poster stamp
put one's stamp
railway stamp
ration stamp
ribbon stamp
rubber stamp
rubber-stamp
savings stamp
SmartStamp
stamp act
stamp album
stamp and go
stamp art
stamp battery
stamp collecting
stamp collection
stamp collector
stamp coupling
stampery
stamp hinge
stampic
stampless
stamp mill
stamp note
stampomania
stamp pad
stamp tax
telegraph stamp
timestamp
time stamp
time-stamp
trading stamp
Zeppelin stamp
counterstamp
misstamp
overstamp
prestamp
microstamped
nonstamped
prestamped
restamp
stampability
stampable
stamper
unstamp
unstamped
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