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stamp English

Meaning stamp meaning

What does stamp mean?
Definitions in simple English

stamp Noun

— A little coloured square of paper that someone sticks to a letter when they want to send the letter. The stamp goes in the upper right part of the outside of the letter. — Any embossed sign or mark on a document. Deeds to a house have excise duty stamps attached.

stamp Verb

— To place a stamp. She stamped the sign of her company on the lower part of the letter. — To bring the heel of the foot sharply down on the floor. She stamped her pretty little foot.

stamp

— verb to mark, or produce an imprint in or on something a man whose name is permanently stamped on our maps — verb (= stomp) walk heavily The men stomped through the snow in their heavy boots — verb reveal clearly as having a certain character His playing stamps him as a Romantic — verb affix a stamp to Are the letters properly stamped? — verb destroy or extinguish as if by stamping with the foot Stamp fascism into submission stamp out tyranny — noun a type or class more men of his stamp are needed — noun a symbol that is the result of printing or engraving he put his stamp on the envelope — noun (= postage) a small adhesive token stuck on a letter or package to indicate that that postal fees have been paid — verb (= stereotype) treat or classify according to a mental stereotype I was stereotyped as a lazy Southern European — noun (= cast) the distinctive form in which a thing is made pottery of this cast was found throughout the region — noun a block or die used to imprint a mark or design — noun machine consisting of a heavy bar that moves vertically for pounding or crushing ores — verb crush or grind with a heavy instrument stamp fruit extract the juice — verb form or cut out with a mold, form, or die stamp needles — noun (= seal) a device incised to make an impression; used to secure a closing or to authenticate documents — noun (= revenue stamp) a small piece of adhesive paper that is put on an object to show that a government tax has been paid — noun (= tender) something that can be used as an official medium of payment — verb (= emboss) raise in a relief embossed stationery

Synonyms stamp synonyms

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stamp English » English

seal mark imprint postage stamp impress stomp trample brand print impression pound postage tread tramp symbol sign punch press mould mold type signet insignia emboss die chop stump step on step pestle label hallmark form emblem cachet token tap sticker stereotype sort rubber stamp pigeonhole mint kind engrave crush coin trudge along tender tag

Topics stamp topics

What do people use stamp to talk about?
Social behavior Government

Government functions
Physical actions Posture

Move a part of the body
Physical actions Physical impact

Kick
Language and thought Emotion Feel bad

Angry
Physical actions Move Manner of movement

Walk

Conjugation stamp conjugation

How do you conjugate stamp?

stamp · verb

Examples stamp examples

How do I use stamp in a sentence?

Simple sentences

I forgot to attach a stamp to the envelope.
Did you put a stamp on the envelope?
The box bears the stamp of the manufacturer.
Please don't forget to put a stamp on the letter before mailing it.
Whose image is on this stamp?
Will you stamp this letter for me?
This letter bears a foreign stamp.
This rare stamp is hard to come by.
My hobby is stamp collecting.
I need to get a stamp.
I have a very old stamp.
Don't forget to put a stamp on your letter.
I'd like to have a look at your stamp collection.
Damon showed me his stamp album.
Please show me your stamp album.
I came upon a rare stamp at that store.
I forgot to put on the stamp before I mailed the letter.
He showed me his stamp collection.
He put a stamp on the letter.

Movie subtitles

The Patriarch asked the Sultan Saladin To put his stamp on the decision of the ecclesiastical court!
Prestigious, branded by the stamp of a strange destiny, a chateau.
And tell me, will it hurt when they hit me at the post office with that. rubber stamp?
It's a cheap stamp and only the poor buy it.
I'll smile on a cheap stamp and frown on the more expensive ones.
And it is just this vicious practice which we must stamp out.
With Locksley out of the way, we'll stamp out the rest.
He always said the one good thing about a postage stamp. It always sticks to one thing 'til it gets there.
I wouldn't trust you to lick a stamp!
We all got the stamp on us.
And when I stamp, it means that I'm very angry.
When you come back, do me a favor, huh? Don't stamp.
Have to sit on my lap, Lucy! Stamp the snow. You mustn't ride with wet feet.
THIS ONE REALLY IS SMALLER THAN A POSTAGE STAMP.
Just send a stamp. Air mail.
It's missing a stamp.
Tell Mr. Emile to come up immediately. so that I may apply the stamp.
It isn't much bigger than a postage stamp, is it?
I'm that sick of waiting, I could stamp on a litter of wildcats and never feel a scratch.
Look at that postcard carefully and you'll see, like me. that the postal stamp. is a fake.
And fix the stamp and the signature.
First I'm gonna put through a child labor bill, then I'm gonna stamp out the sweatshops, them I'm gonna banish the tenements.
Well, what were you looking for, a stamp?
Stamp the snow.
Rebecca epitomizes the kind of laissez-faire attitude that I haven't been unable to stamp out around here.
Well, now you can buy an envelope and a two-cent stamp and you can write home and tell Mama.
There's the mailing bureau for stamp collectors.
TO AWE THEM, STAMP WITH THE FOOT, SPEAK IN A FEROCIOUS VOICE, AND LOOK THEM UNFLINCHINGLY IN THE FACE.
Why don't you get yourself one of those automatic stamp-lickers?
I was working on my stamp collection anyway.
I'll stamp on them, crush them into dust, into flour!
I was just scrapin' the stamp off the bottle. I collect 'em.
The stamp of one of England's most refined jewelers.
There's the matter of the stamp, too.
Bought a postage stamp and it broke me.

News and current affairs

The sledgehammer of invasion could easily cause far more harm than the ills it seeks to stamp out.
Ibrahim wants to stamp out corruption, to see the rule of law applied everywhere, to foster policy environments that encourage businesses to start up and thrive, and to strengthen the role of women.
But governments can counter it in several ways: local language warnings with a prominent tax stamp on cigarette packs are one example.
This is the unmistakable stamp of greatness in a writer.
Ahn has appeared on a 200-won postage stamp in South Korea.
But they are certain to resurface and grow as memories of September 11 th attacks fade and the effort to stamp out terrorism encounters new difficulties, setbacks and dilemmas and possibly requires risky military operations elsewhere.
So the issue is not good words and public promises, it is one of securing the political will necessary to stamp out the practice.
Already, township elections are widely welcomed as a mechanism to stamp out rampant political corruption, as well as reduce conflicts between peasants and the government.
This was a real triumph in a country where officials love to stamp papers for just about anything.
The consequences of this assertion of parliamentary authority will be enormous. Parliamentary ratification did not simply provide a rubber stamp to a palace coup; its approval was conditional.
In 1989, the Communists had managed to make illegal and contain, but not to stamp out, Solidarity.
Foreign companies will no doubt also benefit from this new commitment to stamp out piracy.
With political parties driven into irrelevance, parliament turned into a rubber stamp agency, and national television networks taken under government control, public discourse has all but disappeared.
Countries, like the US, with food stamp programs clearly need to increase the value of these subsidies in order to ensure that nutrition standards do not deteriorate.
The passage of any law by China's rubber-stamp National People's Congress is always a mere formality.
Ito's image can be seen on Japan's 1,000-yen note; Ahn has appeared on a 200-won postage stamp in South Korea.
Again, this is nothing like the rubber-stamp sham parliaments of countries like Egypt and Syria.
Their members kowtow to CEOs, do not examine management decisions closely, and, with very few exceptions, rubber-stamp compensation requests.
The International Monetary Fund has put its stamp of approval on capital controls, thereby legitimizing the use of taxes and other restrictions on cross-border financial flows.
A serious effort to contain them and stamp them out requires an effective campaign in Helmand Province, North and South Waziristan, and the troubled areas between the poppy fields of Afghanistan and the madrasas of Pakistan.
As a result, he has become obsessed with micromanaging everything from troop movements and special events to postings and promotions, all of which require his personal stamp of approval.
Yar'Adua and his Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) are struggling to stamp their authority on an unwieldy and restive country of 140 million people, and the government views rapid growth as a means to achieving that aim.

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