What's the difference between postage and stamp?

Postage


Definition:

  • (n.) The price established by law to be paid for the conveyance of a letter or other mailable matter by a public post.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) 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.
  • (2) A brief orientation to postage stamps and philately is given, and a small collection of rheumatologically related stamps is illustrated.
  • (3) There was no financial incentive to return this survey except that return postage was paid by the author.
  • (4) There was no financial incentive for return of the survey other than return postage paid for by the author.
  • (5) In a survey of attitudes and referral practices toward screening mammography, one-fifth (886) of the 4200 physicians queried returned a postage-paid questionnaire.
  • (6) As the Powell quote above suggests, as of the early 1970s, they led the way into a world where the most ambitious groups dispensed with band-portraits, and even typography: to this day, even if album "sleeves" are now often boiled down to the size of a postage stamp, musicians usually serve notice of their ambition by leaving such fripperies off their artwork.
  • (7) Small booksellers argue they cannot compete with Amazon because it provides free postage and free fast delivery deals on top of 5% discount.
  • (8) A self-administered, postage prepaid questionnaire was sent to 1000 Indiana consumers randomly selected from telephone directories.
  • (9) It contained items of value, including sales receipts needed to return goods, my driving licence, loyalty cards, library cards and postage stamps.
  • (10) The accompanying marketing blitzkrieg has given us postage stamps , Madame Tussauds exhibits , themed decor from Pottery Barn and fleets of new toys , including actual droids .
  • (11) Some retailers have a better online price than they do in-store, but charge postage.
  • (12) Heads Up, Tim Tron is available from The Children's Trust for just the cost of postage and packing.
  • (13) The fact that your proof of postage shows that the parcel weighed considerably more than an empty box, and that the buyer has refused to cooperate in the dispute resolution process, appears irrelevant to eBay.
  • (14) It comes with a 128-page recipe book and can be bought from Andrew James for £27.90 including postage .
  • (15) These companies bulk-buy postage slots then sell in dividual slots to consumers, passing on some of the discount.
  • (16) Other variables such as inclusion of postage and dietary restrictions were studied and cost efficiencies were estimated.
  • (17) Postage stamps sold in the capital, Sarajevo, are not valid in the RS; railway engines have to be swapped as a train from Ploce to Zagreb crosses the country, from Croatian, to Bosnian, to Serbian and back to Croatian again (and these countries want to join the EU?).
  • (18) Men who received the stamped envelope had a 5.9% greater response than those who received the franked envelope (p less than 0.001), but the type of postage did not influence response among women (p = 0.84); this interaction was statistically significant (p = 0.006).
  • (19) These eyes were randomly assigned to four groups: "can opener," linear capsulotomy, capsulopuncture ("postage stamp"), and continuous curvilinear capsulorhexis (CCC).
  • (20) We had a tiny postage stamp-sized garden in Ealing.

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.