different between symbol vs stamp

English

Etymology

From French symbole, from Latin symbolus, symbolum (“a sign, mark, token, symbol, in Late Latin also a creed”), from Ancient Greek ???????? (súmbolon, “a sign by which one infers something; a mark, token, badge, ticket, tally, check, a signal, watchword, outward sign”), from ???????? (sumbáll?, “I throw together, dash together, compare, correspond, tally, come to a conclusion”), from ??? (sún, “with, together”) + ????? (báll?, “I throw, put”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?s?mb?l/
• Rhymes: -?mb?l
• Hyphenation: sym?bol
• Homophone: cymbal

Noun

symbol (plural symbols)

1. A character or glyph representing an idea, concept or object.

2. A thing considered the embodiment of a concept or object.

3. (linguistics) A type of noun whereby the form refers to the same entity independently of the context; a symbol arbitrarily denotes a referent. See also icon and index.
4. A summary of a dogmatic statement of faith.

5. (crystallography) The numerical expression which defines a plane's position relative to the assumed axes.
6. (obsolete) That which is thrown into a common fund; hence, an appointed or accustomed duty.
   • 1673, Jeremy Taylor, Heniaytos: A Course of Sermons for All the Sundays of the Year […]

     They do their work in the days of peace […] and come to pay their symbol in a war or in a plague.

7. (obsolete) Share; allotment.
   • 1673, Jeremy Taylor, Heniaytos: A Course of Sermons for All the Sundays of the Year […]

     The persons who are to be judged […] shall all appear to receive their symbol.

8. (programming) An internal identifier used by a debugger to relate parts of the compiled program to the corresponding names in the source code.
9. (telecommunications) A signalling event on a communications channel; a signal that cannot be further divided into meaningful information.

Derived terms

• status symbol
• typographical symbol

Related terms

• symbolic
• symbolize
• symbolism

Translations

Verb

symbol (third-person singular simple present symbols, present participle symboling or symbolling, simple past and past participle symboled or symbolled)

1. To symbolize.

Translations

See also

• punctuation

Further reading

• symbol in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• symbol in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.

Czech

Noun

symbol m

1. symbol

Declension

Related terms

• symbolický
• symbolismus

Further reading

• symbol in P?íru?ní slovník jazyka ?eského, 1935–1957
• symbol in Slovník spisovného jazyka ?eského, 1960–1971, 1989

Danish

Etymology

From Ancient Greek ???????? (súmbolon, “a sign by which one infers something; a mark, token, badge, ticket, tally, check, a signal, watchword, outward sign”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /symbo?l/, [sym?b?o??l]
• Rhymes: -o?l

Noun

symbol n (singular definite symbolet, plural indefinite symboler)

1. symbol

Inflection

Derived terms

• statussymbol

Related terms

• symbolik
• symbolisere
• symbolisme
• symbolist
• symbolsk

Further reading

• symbol on the Danish Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^da

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology

From Ancient Greek ???????? (súmbolon)

Noun

symbol n (definite singular symbolet, indefinite plural symbol or symboler, definite plural symbola or symbolene)

1. a symbol

Derived terms

• statussymbol
• symbolisme

Related terms

• symbolisere
• symbolsk

References

• “symbol” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology

From Ancient Greek ???????? (súmbolon)

Noun

symbol n (definite singular symbolet, indefinite plural symbol, definite plural symbola)

1. a symbol

Derived terms

• statussymbol
• symbolisme

Related terms

• symbolsk

References

• “symbol” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Polish

Etymology

From French symbole, from Latin symbolum, from Ancient Greek ????????? (súmbolon).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?s?m.b?l/

Noun

symbol m inan

1. symbol

Declension

Derived terms

• (nouns) symbolika, symbolizm
• (adjective) symboliczny
• (verb) symbolizowa?

Further reading

• symbol in Wielki s?ownik j?zyka polskiego, Instytut J?zyka Polskiego PAN
• symbol in Polish dictionaries at PWN

Swedish

Etymology

From Latin symbolum, cognate with English symbol.

Pronunciation

Noun

symbol c

1. symbol

Declension

Derived terms

References

• symbol in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)
• symbol in Svenska Akademiens ordbok (SAOB)

Welsh

Alternative forms

• sumbol

Etymology

From English symbol, from French symbole, from Latin symbolus, symbolum (“a sign, mark, token, symbol, in Late Latin also a creed”), from Ancient Greek ???????? (súmbolon, “a sign by which one infers something; a mark, token, badge, ticket, tally, check, a signal, watchword, outward sign”).

Pronunciation

• (North Wales) IPA^(key): /?s??mb?l/
• (South Wales) IPA^(key): /?s?mb?l/

Usage notes

Being a word borrowed from English derived from Greek, the y in symbol is pronounced /??, ?/ rather than expected /?/. To preserve consistency between pronunciation and spelling, some prefer to spell this word sumbol. Nevertheless, symbol is the more common spelling of the two. See pyramid/puramid, synthesis/sunthesis, system/sustem for similar examples.

Noun

symbol m (plural symbolau, not mutable)

1. symbol

Derived terms

• symbolaeth (“symbolism”)
• symbolaidd (“symbolic”)
• symboleiddio (“symbolise”)
• symbolwr (“symbolist”)
• symbolydd (“symbolist”)

Further reading

• R. J. Thomas, G. A. Bevan, P. J. Donovan, A. Hawke et al., editors (1950–present) , “symbol”, in Geiriadur Prifysgol Cymru Online (in Welsh), University of Wales Centre for Advanced Welsh & Celtic Studies

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)

1. 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.

2. An indentation, imprint, or mark made by stamping.

3. A device for stamping designs.

4. A small piece of paper bearing a design on one side and adhesive on the other, used to decorate letters or craft work.

5. 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.

6. (slang, figuratively) A tattoo.
7. (slang) A single dose of lysergic acid diethylamide.
8. A kind of heavy pestle, raised by water or steam power, for crushing ores.
9. 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 […]

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)

1. (intransitive) To step quickly and heavily, once or repeatedly.

2. (transitive) To move (the foot or feet) quickly and heavily, once or repeatedly.

3. (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.
4. (transitive) To mark by pressing quickly and heavily.

5. (transitive) To give an official marking to, generally by impressing or imprinting a design or symbol.

6. (transitive) To apply postage stamps to.

7. (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.

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

1. first-person singular present indicative of stampen
2. imperative of stampen

Anagrams

• spamt

Icelandic

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -am?p

Noun

stamp

1. indefinite accusative singular of stampur

Norwegian Nynorsk

Verb

stamp

1. imperative of stampa

Welsh

Etymology

From English stamp.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /stamp/

Noun

stamp m or f (plural stampiau or stamps, not mutable)

1. 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