(n.) A part which acts by falling, as a stamp in a fulling mill, or the device in a spinning machine to arrest motion when a thread breaks.
Example Sentences:
(1) The cities with the biggest increases were Cambridge, up by 6% at £336,667, and Coventry, up 3% at £165,100; the biggest fallers were Bradford and Manchester, both down by 9% to £145,478 and £171,830 respectively.
(2) Chipmaker ARM is the biggest faller in London, as analysts fret about a slowdown in royalty revenues.
(3) Financial stocks are among the fallers -- with RSA Insurance down 3.8%, Standard Chartered down 3.4% and Barclays losing 3.1%.
(4) Top city fallers Belfast – prices down 37% on Q1 of 2008 to £190,915 Norwich – down 23% to £154,557 St Albans – down 22% to £272,813 Newcastle – down 19% to £147,104 Leeds – down 18% to £156,897 Lowest city fallers Bath – prices down 7% on Q1 of 2008 to £221,695 Durham City – down 8% to £137,821 Glasgow – down 10% to £154,989 Edinburgh – down 10% to £228,528 Sunderland – down 12% to £130,164
(5) Six of the eight fallers reporting new symptoms were exposed only to antivibration saws, a finding suggesting that the type of saws used in the present investigation is not preventing the onset of new disease.
(6) Although POW in fallers was significantly lower at the higher velocity in both joints, the decrease was most prominent in the ankles.
(7) However, visual variables were more important in predicting faller status than physical characteristics.
(8) In London, Barclays shares fell by 6% to 206p and were the second-biggest faller in the FTSE100 amid fears about its troubled Spanish operation.
(9) On Tuesday, they were the biggest fallers in the FTSE 100, ending nearly 4% lower at 264p.
(10) The group of fallers had a significantly greater degree of white-matter hypodensity of the elderly (Student's t-test = 2.7, p less than 0.01).
(11) Shares in AB Foods, 55% owned by the Weston family, have jumped nearly 60% over the past year, mainly on the back of Primark's success, but the mixed picture made them the biggest faller in the FTSE 100, closing down more than 2% at £27.57.
(12) M&S shares dropped 3.5% to 435p and were the second-biggest fallers in the FTSE 100 index.
(13) The early optimism over China's 12% rise in exports has withered - here's the biggest fallers this lunchtime: Photograph: Thomson Reuters Toby Morris , senior sales trader at CMC Markets, says investors are now more worried that Chinese imports only grew by 5% in October.
(14) Chancellor to crack down on letting fees in autumn statement Read more Foxtons was the sector’s biggest faller, with shares down almost 14%.
(15) A multivariate regression procedure showed that dizziness, vertigo and unsteadiness, transient ischemic attacks, antidepressant drugs, and poor subjectively experienced health characterized the fallers.
(16) Insurance firm RSA is the biggest faller on the FTSE 100 after warning that weather-related claims will be bigger than expected.
(17) Dorsiflexion POW production in fallers was the most affected of all the motions (7.5 times less than the control value).
(18) This study examines some aspects of spatial orientation mechanisms in idiopathic elderly fallers.
(19) The pattern of enzyme changes in elderly fallers admitted to an acute geriatric unit was investigated.
(20) A year ago HSBC made $20.6bn profits and paid 204 of its staff more than £1m, although its shares were among the biggest fallers in the FTSE 100 index of blue chip shares on disappointment that the profit rise was not greater.
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.