What's the difference between mush and stamp?

Mush


Definition:

  • (n.) Meal (esp. Indian meal) boiled in water; hasty pudding; supawn.
  • (v. t.) To notch, cut, or indent, as cloth, with a stamp.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Obama doesn't have much to say, and neither does Mitt Romney but after that Libya cock-up his brain is mush and he starts going on about two parent families – what?
  • (2) To be sure, it is suffocating, narrow and on the edge of a descent into a mediocre mush.
  • (3) The roots of mush maternal mortality lie in discrimination agianst women, in terms of legal status and access to education, financial resources and health care, including family planning.
  • (4) 8.29pm BST They are "putting the mush in the brain and the lid on the brain and the brain in the fridge".
  • (5) Hence even though The Friday Times published Mush and Bush during General Musharraf’s regime, it escaped censure.
  • (6) The Friday Times, a weekly from Lahore, has published a series of fictitious satirical diaries over the years: Dear Diary by Benazir Bhutto; Ittefaqnama by Nawaz Sharif (the current prime minister); Mush and Bush, a telephone conversation between General Musharraf and President Bush; Howzzat by Im the Dim (Imran Khan) – all written by the publisher, Jugnu Mohsin.
  • (7) And as I write, he cops a solid whack to the mush in round three.
  • (8) Bring to the boil, then reduce the heat to a gentle simmer and cook for 40-60 minutes or until the lentils are soft and start to mush, becoming sauce-like.
  • (9) In public life we often hear politicians slipping into management mush.
  • (10) Arguing that the film's promotion of partisan political views was "irremediable" and that it contained scientific inaccuracies and "sentimental mush", Mr Dimmock attempted to get the film totally banned from schools in England.
  • (11) Sherman's work has always been a vibrant mush of ideas.
  • (12) As I was standing, with a sodden piece of cardboard around my neck, slowly turning to mush in the rain, knowing that the pre-sales to the show were nil, I saw one of my former colleagues walk towards me.
  • (13) I knocked out several bestsellers while sitting on the balcony of my old apartment in the middle of Bangkok, but put me in the countryside and my brain turns to mush.
  • (14) We must “stop China’s cyber attacks, stop their territorial expansion into international waters,” stop Russia from “[encountering] mush” and “pushing” with bayonets, make sure Israel isn’t having a sad, cripple Iran with sanctions and ignore everything about climate change because “the greatest threat to future generations is radical Islamic terrorism and we need to do something about it.” The great thing about ignoring science and practicality while threatening to go to war against more than 1.5bn people around the globe is that, if there are any enemy survivors after the bombing stops, they can sail to the port city of Orlando and gawk enviously at all the free people queuing up for their mandatory drug tests atop a natural gas pipeline But don’t sell Walker short on his zero foreign policy experience.
  • (15) The good news, though, "from your point of view", was that "the first few times I opened it up, after having obeyed every single instruction, all there seemed to be was a bit of mush in the bottom."
  • (16) Mush of the data obtained were interpreted as being compatible with the elft atrial volume-receptor hypothesis, but very liggle of the data pertained to left atrial receptors specifically.
  • (17) My God … I watched all 20 minutes of Sarah Palin’s mush-mouthed, meandering speech and analyzed it for you, but first, I’d like to offer up these five quotes.
  • (18) In sitcom after sitcom and movie after movie, and in his other job as a voiceover actor and artist, he has staked a place for himself as perhaps the most aggressively amusing, terrifying, vanity-free and daring of post-Apatow, post-Seinfeld comic actors – an incredibly dependable and omnipresent A-type bully and crybaby with a heart of pure mush.
  • (19) But Labour's answer is a warm, statist mush, wishing good things for everyone, but most of all a powerful state helping grateful citizens.
  • (20) He then lapses into a mush of critical theory about how he assembles his influences.

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.