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From: DICT.TW English-Chinese Dictionary 英漢字典

 stamp /ˈstæmp; ||ˈstɑmp ||ˈstɔmp/
 印,郵票,列印器,戳子,圖章,印花,標誌,特徵,類型,跺腳(vt.)蓋章于,頓足

From: Network Terminology

 stamp
 戳記

From: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

 Stamp, v. i.
 1. To strike; to beat; to crush.
    These cooks how they stamp and strain and grind.   --Chaucer.
 2. To strike the foot forcibly downward.
    But starts, exclaims, and stamps, and raves, and dies.   --Dennis.

From: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

 Stamp v. t. [imp. & p. p. Stamped p. pr. & vb. n. Stamping.]
 1. 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.   --Dryden.
 2. To bring down (the foot) forcibly on the ground or floor; as, he stamped his foot with rage.
 3. To crush; to pulverize; specifically Metal., to crush by the blow of a heavy stamp, as ore in a mill.
    I took your sin, the calf which ye had made, and burnt it with fire, and stamped it, and ground it very small.   --Deut. ix. 21.
 4. To impress with some mark or figure; as, to stamp a plate with arms or initials.
 5. Fig.: To impress; to imprint; to fix deeply; as, to stamp virtuous principles on the heart.
    God . . . has stamped no original characters on our minds wherein we may read his being.   --Locke.
 6. To cut out, bend, or indent, as paper, sheet metal, etc., into various forms, by a blow or suddenly applied pressure with a stamp or die, etc.; to mint; to coin.
 7. To put a stamp on, as for postage; as, to stamp a letter; to stamp a legal document.
 To stamp out, to put an end to by sudden and energetic action; to extinguish; as, to stamp out a rebellion.

From: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

 Stamp, n.
 1. The act of stamping, as with the foot.
 2. The which stamps; any instrument for making impressions on other bodies, as a die.
 'T is gold so pure
 It can not bear the stamp without alloy.   --Dryden.
 3. The mark made by stamping; a mark imprinted; an impression.
 That sacred name gives ornament and grace,
 And, like his stamp, makes basest metals pass.   --Dryden.
 4. That which is marked; a thing stamped.
    Hanging a golden stamp about their necks.   --Shak.
 5.  A picture cut in wood or metal, or made by impression; a cut; a plate. [Obs.]
    At Venice they put out very curious stamps of the several edifices which are most famous for their beauty and magnificence.   --Addison.
 6. An official mark set upon things chargeable with a duty or tax to government, as evidence that the duty or tax is paid; as, the stamp on a bill of exchange.
 7. Hence: A stamped or printed device, usually paper, issued by the government at a fixed price, and required by law to be affixed to, or stamped on, certain papers, as evidence that the government dues are paid; as, a postage stamp; a tax  stamp; a receipt stamp, etc.
 8. An instrument for cutting out, or shaping, materials, as paper, leather, etc., by a downward pressure.
 9. A character or reputation, good or bad, fixed on anything as if by an imprinted mark; current value; authority; as, these persons have the stamp of dishonesty; the Scriptures bear the stamp of a divine origin.
    Of the same stamp is that which is obtruded on us, that an adamant suspends the attraction of the loadstone.   --Sir T. Browne.
 10. Make; cast; form; character; as, a man of the same stamp, or of a different stamp.
    A soldier of this season's stamp.   --Shak.
 11. A kind of heavy hammer, or pestle, raised by water or steam power, for beating ores to powder; anything like a pestle, used for pounding or beating.
 12. A half-penny. [Obs.]
 13. pl. Money, esp. paper money. [Slang, U.S.]
 Stamp act, an act of the British Parliament [1765] imposing a duty on all paper, vellum, and parchment used in the American colonies, and declaring all writings on unstamped materials to be null and void.
 Stamp collector, (a) an officer who receives or collects stamp duties. (b) one who collects postage or other stamps, as an avocation or for investment; a philatelist.
 Stamp duty, a duty, or tax, imposed on paper and parchment used for certain writings, as deeds, conveyances, etc., the evidence of the payment of the duty or tax being a stamp. [Eng.]
 Stamp hammer, a hammer, worked by power, which rises and falls vertically, like a stamp in a stamp mill.
 Stamp head, a heavy mass of metal, forming the head or lower end of a bar, which is lifted and let fall, in a stamp mill.
 Stamp mill Mining, a mill in which ore is crushed with stamps; also, a machine for stamping ore.
 Stamp note, a stamped certificate from a customhouse officer, which allows goods to be received by the captain of a ship as freight. [Eng.]
 Stamp office, an office for the issue of stamps and the reception of stamp duties.
 

From: WordNet (r) 2.0

 stamp
      n 1: a token that postal fees have been paid [syn: postage, postage
           stamp]
      2: the distinctive form in which a thing is made; "pottery of
         this cast was found throughout the region" [syn: cast, mold]
      3: a type or class; "more men of his stamp are needed"
      4: a symbol that is the result of printing; "he put his stamp
         on the envelope" [syn: impression]
      5: machine consisting of a heavy bar that moves vertically for
         pounding or crushing ores [syn: pestle]
      6: a block or die used to imprint a mark or design
      7: a device incised to make an impression; used to secure a
         closing or to authenticate documents [syn: seal]
      v 1: walk heavily; "The men stomped through the snow in their
           heavy boots" [syn: stomp, stump]
      2: to mark, or produce an imprint in or on something; "a man
         whose name is permanently stamped on our maps"
      3: reveal clearly as having a certain character; "His playing
         stamps him as a Romantic"
      4: affix a stamp to; "Are the letters properly stamped?"
      5: treat or classify according to a mental stereotype; "I was
         stereotyped as a lazy Southern European" [syn: pigeonhole,
          stereotype]
      6: destroy or extinguish as if by stamping with the foot;
         "Stamp fascism into submission"; "stamp out tyranny"
      7: form or cut out with a mold, form, or die; "stamp needles"
      8: crush or grind with a heavy instrument; "stamp fruit extract
         the juice"
      9: raise in a relief; "embossed stationary" [syn: emboss, boss]