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stamp
English
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 *stamp?n, *stampijan, from Proto-Germanic *stamp?n?, *stampijan? (“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 st?pa? (“to step, treat”). See also stomp, step.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /stæmp/
- Rhymes: -æmp
Noun
stamp (plural stamps)
- An act of stamping the foot, paw or hoof.
- 1922, Margery Williams, The Velveteen Rabbit
- 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.
- 1922, Margery Williams, The Velveteen Rabbit
- An indentation, imprint, or mark made by stamping.
- A device for stamping designs.
- A small piece of paper bearing a design on one side and adhesive on the other, used to decorate letters or craft work.
- A small piece of paper, with a design and a face value, used to prepay postage or other costs such as tax or licence fees.
- (slang, figuratively) A tattoo.
- (slang) A single dose of lysergic acid diethylamide.
- A kind of heavy pestle, raised by water or steam power, for crushing ores.
- Cast; form; character; distinguishing mark or sign; evidence.
- 1863, Sporting Magazine (volume 42, page 290)
- 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 […]
- 1863, Sporting Magazine (volume 42, page 290)
Synonyms
- (paper used to indicate payment has been paid): postage stamp, revenue stamp, tax stamp
Derived terms
Translations
Verb
stamp (third-person singular simple present stamps, present participle stamping, simple past and past participle stamped)
- (intransitive) To step quickly and heavily, once or repeatedly.
- (transitive) To move (the foot or feet) quickly and heavily, once or repeatedly.
- (transitive) To strike, beat, or press forcibly with the bottom of the foot, or by thrusting the foot downward.
- He frets, he fumes, he stares, he stamps the ground.
- (transitive) To mark by pressing quickly and heavily.
- (transitive) To give an official marking to, generally by impressing or imprinting a design or symbol.
- (transitive) To apply postage stamps to.
- (transitive, figuratively) To mark; to impress.
- , Book IV, Chapter X
- God […] has stamped no original characters on our minds wherein we may read his being.
- , Book IV, Chapter X
Synonyms
- (mark by pressing quickly and heavily): emboss, dent
- (give an official marking to): impress, imprint
Translations
Related terms
Anagrams
- tamps
Dutch
Pronunciation
- Rhymes: -?mp
Verb
stamp
- first-person singular present indicative of stampen
- imperative of stampen
Anagrams
- spamt
Icelandic
Pronunciation
- Rhymes: -am?p
Noun
stamp
- indefinite accusative singular of stampur
Norwegian Nynorsk
Verb
stamp
- imperative of stampa
Welsh
Etymology
From English stamp.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /stamp/
Noun
stamp m or f (plural stampiau or stamps, not mutable)
- stamp (for postage, validation on a document, evidence of payment, etc.)
Further reading
- R. J. Thomas, G. A. Bevan, P. J. Donovan, A. Hawke et al., editors (1950–present) , “stamp”, in Geiriadur Prifysgol Cymru Online (in Welsh), University of Wales Centre for Advanced Welsh & Celtic Studies
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docket
English
Alternative forms
- docquet (archaic)
Etymology
Origin uncertain; perhaps a diminutive of dock.
Pronunciation
- (UK) IPA(key): /?d?k?t/
- Rhymes: -?k?t
Noun
docket (plural dockets)
- (obsolete) A summary; a brief digest.
- (law) A short entry of the proceedings of a court; the register containing them; the office containing the register.
- (law) A schedule of cases awaiting action in a court.
- An agenda of things to be done.
- A ticket or label fixed to something, showing its contents or directions to its use.
- (Australia) A receipt.
Translations
See also
- receipt
Verb
docket (third-person singular simple present dockets, present participle docketing, simple past and past participle docketed)
- (transitive) To enter or inscribe in a docket, or list of causes for trial.
- (transitive) To label a parcel, etc.
- to docket goods
- (transitive) To make a brief abstract of (a writing) and endorse it on the back of the paper, or to endorse the title or contents on the back of; to summarize.
- to docket letters and papers
- (Can we find and add a quotation of Chesterfield to this entry?)
- (transitive) To make a brief abstract of and inscribe in a book.
- judgments regularly docketed
Anagrams
- tocked
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