Noun | 1. | ![]() Synonyms: postage stamp, postage |
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3. | stamp - a type or class; "more men of his stamp are needed" | |
4. | stamp - a symbol that is the result of printing; "he put his stamp on the envelope" Synonyms: impression | |
5. | stamp - machine consisting of a heavy bar that moves vertically for pounding or crushing ores Synonyms: pestle | |
6. | stamp - a block or die used to imprint a mark or design | |
7. | stamp - a device incised to make an impression; used to secure a closing or to authenticate documents Synonyms: seal | |
Verb | 1. | stamp - walk heavily; "The men stomped through the snow in their heavy boots" |
2. | stamp - to mark, or produce an imprint in or on something; "a man whose name is permanently stamped on our maps" | |
3. | stamp - reveal clearly as having a certain character; "His playing stamps him as a Romantic" | |
4. | stamp - affix a stamp to; "Are the letters properly stamped?" | |
5. | stamp - treat or classify according to a mental stereotype; "I was stereotyped as a lazy Southern European" Synonyms: stereotype, pigeonhole | |
6. | stamp - destroy or extinguish as if by stamping with the foot; "Stamp fascism into submission"; "stamp out tyranny" | |
7. | stamp - form or cut out with a mold, form, or die; "stamp needles" | |
8. | stamp - crush or grind with a heavy instrument; "stamp fruit extract the juice" | |
9. | stamp - raise in a relief; "embossed stationary" |
STAMP, revenue. An impression made on paper, by order of the government,
which must be used in reducing certain contracts to writing, for The purpose
of raising a revenue. Vide Stark. Ev. h.t.; 1 Phil. Ev. 444.
2. Maryland is the only state in the United States that has enacted a
stamp.