stamp

Noun

• a device incised to make an impression; used to secure a closing or to authenticate documents

• a block or die used to imprint a mark or design

• machine consisting of a heavy bar that moves vertically for pounding or crushing ores

• a small piece of adhesive paper that is put on an object to show that a government tax has been paid

• something that can be used as an official medium of payment

• a small adhesive token stuck on a letter or package to indicate that that postal fees have been paid

• a symbol that is the result of printing or engraving
  • he put his stamp on the envelope
    

• a type or class
  • more men of his stamp are needed
    

• the distinctive form in which a thing is made
  • pottery of this cast was found throughout the region
    

Verb

• raise in a relief
  • embossed stationery
    

• crush or grind with a heavy instrument
  • stamp fruit extract the juice
    

• form or cut out with a mold, form, or die
  • stamp needles
    

• destroy or extinguish as if by stamping with the foot
  • Stamp fascism into submission
    
  • stamp out tyranny
    

• treat or classify according to a mental stereotype
  • I was stereotyped as a lazy Southern European
    

• affix a stamp to
  • Are the letters properly stamped?
    

• reveal clearly as having a certain character
  • His playing stamps him as a Romantic
    

• to mark, or produce an imprint in or on something
  • a man whose name is permanently stamped on our maps
    

• walk heavily
  • The men stomped through the snow in their heavy boots
    

Related words

• Synonyms: 
  seal , pestle , revenue stamp , tender , legal tender , postage , postage stamp , impression , cast , mold , mould , emboss , boss , pigeonhole , stereotype , stomp , stump