What's the difference between die and stamp?

Die


Definition:

  • (pl. ) of Dice
  • (v. i.) To pass from an animate to a lifeless state; to cease to live; to suffer a total and irreparable loss of action of the vital functions; to become dead; to expire; to perish; -- said of animals and vegetables; often with of, by, with, from, and rarely for, before the cause or occasion of death; as, to die of disease or hardships; to die by fire or the sword; to die with horror at the thought.
  • (v. i.) To suffer death; to lose life.
  • (v. i.) To perish in any manner; to cease; to become lost or extinct; to be extinguished.
  • (v. i.) To sink; to faint; to pine; to languish, with weakness, discouragement, love, etc.
  • (v. i.) To become indifferent; to cease to be subject; as, to die to pleasure or to sin.
  • (v. i.) To recede and grow fainter; to become imperceptible; to vanish; -- often with out or away.
  • (v. i.) To disappear gradually in another surface, as where moldings are lost in a sloped or curved face.
  • (v. i.) To become vapid, flat, or spiritless, as liquor.
  • (n.) A small cube, marked on its faces with spots from one to six, and used in playing games by being shaken in a box and thrown from it. See Dice.
  • (n.) Any small cubical or square body.
  • (n.) That which is, or might be, determined, by a throw of the die; hazard; chance.
  • (n.) That part of a pedestal included between base and cornice; the dado.
  • (n.) A metal or plate (often one of a pair) so cut or shaped as to give a certain desired form to, or impress any desired device on, an object or surface, by pressure or by a blow; used in forging metals, coining, striking up sheet metal, etc.
  • (n.) A perforated block, commonly of hardened steel used in connection with a punch, for punching holes, as through plates, or blanks from plates, or for forming cups or capsules, as from sheet metal, by drawing.
  • (n.) A hollow internally threaded screw-cutting tool, made in one piece or composed of several parts, for forming screw threads on bolts, etc.; one of the separate parts which make up such a tool.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The sound of the ambulance frightened us, especially us children, and panic gripped the entire community: people believe that whoever is taken into the ambulance to the hospital will die – you so often don’t see them again.
  • (2) Insensitive variants die more slowly than wild type cells, with 10-20% cell death observed within 24 h after addition of dexamethasone.
  • (3) However, ticks, which failed to finish their feeding and represent a disproportionately great part of the whole parasite's population, die together with them and the parasitic system quickly restores its stability.
  • (4) After resection of the liver 13 patients of 31 died.
  • (5) Of the 594 patients, 23.7% died and 38.7% had documented inhalation injury.
  • (6) All of the nude mice developed paraplegia with or without incontinence at 2 weeks and routinely died of inanition 3 weeks postimplantation.
  • (7) The hospital whose A&E unit has been threatened with closure on safety grounds has admitted that four patients died after errors by staff in the emergency department and other areas.
  • (8) No evidence of BPH was observed in 68.4% of patients who had died of cancer.
  • (9) Four patients died while maintained on PD; three deaths were due to complications of liver failure within the first 4 months of PD and the fourth was due to empyema after 4 years of PD.
  • (10) In the patients who have died or have been classified as slowly progressive the serum 19-9 changes ranged from +13% to +707%.
  • (11) A 45-year-old mother of four, named as Hediye Sen, was killed during clashes in Cizre, while a 70-year-old died of a heart attack during fighting in Silopi, according to hospital sources.
  • (12) Three patients died from non-hepatic causes and another has received liver transplantation.
  • (13) One man has died in storms sweeping across the UK that have brought 100-mile-an-hour winds and led to more than 50 flood warnings being issued with widespread disruption on the road and rail networks in much of southern England and Scotland.
  • (14) Mitoses of nuclei of myocytes of the left ventricle of the heart observed in two elderly people who had died of extensive relapsing infarction are described.
  • (15) Four patients with tumours larger than 2 cm died from metastatic carcinoid.
  • (16) The patient later died from complications of burns.
  • (17) Male guinea pigs received either a single dose of As2O3 10 mg.kg-1 s.c. or repeated doses of 2.5 mg.kg-1 bis in die (b.i.d.)
  • (18) Histopathological studies confirmed that mice fed 933cu-rev died from bilateral renal cortical tubular necrosis consistent with toxic insult, perhaps due to Shiga-like toxins.
  • (19) Thirty had an in situ tumor (mean age: 30 years) and 34 had an invasive adenocarcinoma (mean age: 45 years), 7 of whom died of their cancer.
  • (20) These patients developed mediastinal lymph node metastasis and died 4 and 11 months after surgery, respectively.

Stamp


Definition:

  • (v. i.) To strike beat, or press forcibly with the bottom of the foot, or by thrusting the foot downward.
  • (v. i.) To bring down (the foot) forcibly on the ground or floor; as, he stamped his foot with rage.
  • (v. i.) To crush; to pulverize; specifically (Metal.), to crush by the blow of a heavy stamp, as ore in a mill.
  • (v. i.) To impress with some mark or figure; as, to stamp a plate with arms or initials.
  • (v. i.) Fig.: To impress; to imprint; to fix deeply; as, to stamp virtuous principles on the heart.
  • (v. i.) 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.
  • (v. i.) To put a stamp on, as for postage; as, to stamp a letter; to stamp a legal document.
  • (v. i.) To strike; to beat; to crush.
  • (v. i.) To strike the foot forcibly downward.
  • (n.) The act of stamping, as with the foot.
  • (n.) The which stamps; any instrument for making impressions on other bodies, as a die.
  • (n.) The mark made by stamping; a mark imprinted; an impression.
  • (n.) that which is marked; a thing stamped.
  • (v. t.) A picture cut in wood or metal, or made by impression; a cut; a plate.
  • (v. t.) An offical 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.
  • (v. t.) Hence, a stamped or printed device, 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 receipt stamp, etc.
  • (v. t.) An instrument for cutting out, or shaping, materials, as paper, leather, etc., by a downward pressure.
  • (v. t.) 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.
  • (v. t.) Make; cast; form; character; as, a man of the same stamp, or of a different stamp.
  • (v. t.) 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 bathing.
  • (v. t.) A half-penny.
  • (v. t.) Money, esp. paper money.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Hopes of a breakthrough are slim, though, after WTO members failed to agree a draft deal to rubber-stamp this week.
  • (2) The BBA statistics director, David Dooks, said: "It was no surprise to see the January mortgage figures falling back from December, when transactions were being pushed through to beat the end of stamp duty relief.
  • (3) Head chef Christopher Gould (a UK Masterchef quarter-finalist) puts his own stamp on traditional Spanish fare with the likes of mushroom-and-truffle croquettes and suckling Málaga goat with couscous.
  • (4) The immigration minister, Mark Harper, said: in a statement: "Today's operations highlight the routine work we are carrying out every day to stamp out illegal working.
  • (5) On Friday, Sollecito had his passport taken away and his ID card stamped to show he must not leave Italy, according to police.
  • (6) Currently, anyone buying a property for £175,000 or less avoids paying 1% stamp duty.
  • (7) This means 9 in 10 first time buyers will pay no stamp duty at all.
  • (8) He has some suggestions for what might be done, including easing changing the planning laws to free up parts of the green belt, financial incentives to persuade local authorities to build, and the replacement of the council tax and stamp duty land tax with a new local property tax with automatic annual revaluations.
  • (9) The IFRC announced it was expanding its operations in the three countries in a bid to stamp out the virus now that the case numbers have been reduced to between 20 and 27 a week, compared to hundreds a week at the disease’s peak.
  • (10) The stamps, which were similar in paper and size to Japanese 10-yen postage stamps, were wrapped around the penis before sleep and the stamp ring was checked for breakage the next morning.
  • (11) That means that the money being spent on food stamps is money that the government is paying to subsidize company profits: as businesses pay a minimum or near-minimumwage, their workers are forced to turn to government programs to make ends meet.
  • (12) But to leave with the result 1-0, I don’t believe too much that he can play.” Mourinho had actually walked on to the turf while his players celebrated their opening goal to stamp in some of the divots.
  • (13) A brief orientation to postage stamps and philately is given, and a small collection of rheumatologically related stamps is illustrated.
  • (14) Labour’s promise of a stamp duty holiday for first-time buyers will lead to higher house prices.
  • (15) First class stamps prices are rising by 1p, while a second class stamp will rise by the same amount to 55p.
  • (16) Solicitors, conveyancers and mortgage lenders are reporting a rush to complete house purchases before the reintroduction of stamp duty on properties costing less than £175,000 on 1 January.
  • (17) Committees too often rubber stamp these ingenious schemes with little real scrutiny.
  • (18) The final bill will most likely crack down on states that give recipients $1 in heating assistance in order to trigger higher food stamp benefits, a change that wouldn't take people completely off the rolls.
  • (19) The exhibition will include the earliest roadside pillar box erected on the mainland – in 1853, a year after the first went up in Jersey in the Channel Isles – and unique and priceless sheets of Penny Black stamps.
  • (20) Buy-to-let investors rush to complete before stamp duty rise Read more Even Osborne’s form of penalising the market, through higher stamp duty, makes no sense.

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