(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.
Token
Definition:
(n.) Something intended or supposed to represent or indicate another thing or an event; a sign; a symbol; as, the rainbow is a token of God's covenant established with Noah.
(n.) A memorial of friendship; something by which the friendship of another person is to be kept in mind; a memento; a souvenir.
(n.) Something given or shown as a symbol or guarantee of authority or right; a sign of authenticity, of power, good faith, etc.
(n.) A piece of metal intended for currency, and issued by a private party, usually bearing the name of the issuer, and redeemable in lawful money. Also, a coin issued by government, esp. when its use as lawful money is limited and its intrinsic value is much below its nominal value.
(n.) A livid spot upon the body, indicating, or supposed to indicate, the approach of death.
(n.) Ten and a half quires, or, commonly, 250 sheets, of paper printed on both sides; also, in some cases, the same number of sheets printed on one side, or half the number printed on both sides.
(n.) A piece of metal given beforehand to each person in the congregation who is permitted to partake of the Lord's Supper.
(n.) A bit of leather having a peculiar mark designating a particular miner. Each hewer sends one of these with each corf or tub he has hewn.
(n.) To betoken.
Example Sentences:
(1) You’d know that if you listened to them and saw their presence as more than tokenism.
(2) These 2 experiences are often split in bottlefed and token breastfed infants.
(3) It’s not about a token nod to curvy girls …”, Cosmo ‘s editor, Bronwyn McCahon, explains in her campaign launch letter : “Showcasing body diversity at both ends of the spectrum has become part of Cosmo’s DNA.
(4) By the same token we stopped all association with businesses that make cluster bombs.
(5) By the same token, the mast cell is responsible for interactions with inhaled, ingested, and injected antigens that comprise IgE-mediated allergic reactions.
(6) A 36-item version of the token test is described together with its administration and scoring instructions.
(7) Consequently, steady-state trace inert gas exchange cannot in practice be used to differentiate series from parallel models, but by the same token, if series gas exchange occurs, equivalent parallel analysis is possible.
(8) The information included a detailed case description, an audiotape of M's speech obtained at 4, 9, 13, and 17 days post-stroke, and test results from the Western Aphasia Battery, the Token Test, and a battery for apraxia of speech.
(9) This schema and framework: (1) acknowledge that the term "breastfeeding" alone is insufficient to describe the numerous types of breastfeeding behavior, (2) distinguish full from partial breastfeeding, (3) subdivide full breastfeeding into categories of exclusive and almost exclusive breastfeeding, (4) differentiate among levels of partial breastfeeding, and (5) recognize that there can be token breastfeeding with little to no nutritional impact.
(10) In the second experiment, preadolescent learning-disabled students who were required to read and spell correctly a greater number of words per reward token later spent more time and completed more work for reward tokens in mathematics, and handwriting.
(11) A pretest-posttest design containing natural tokens was used to assess the effects of training.
(12) Under this, 1% commission was to be paid if the $40m radar deal went through, to a Tanzania-registered firm, Merlin International Ltd. Mr Vithlani was the majority shareholder in Merlin, Mr Somaiya said, while he had a small token interest himself.
(13) Total speech tokens increased for 7 of the 8 subjects and diversity of speech sounds increased for 6 subjects.
(14) The effects of reward and cost token procedures on the social and academic behavior of two groups of elementary special-education students were assessed using a reversal design.
(15) In condition A, the opportunity to self-stimulate was contingent on the payment of tokens (two tokens for 2 minutes of self-stimulation).
(16) Wherever the aphasics' performance was worse than that of the controls, the deviancy-scores correlated significantly with the Token Test.
(17) a) The token economy may be viewed as a palliative measure to prevent the incredibly regressive effects of institutionalization.
(18) Students (N = 32) in two of the schools remained in traditional programs, serving as controls, whereas students (N = 14) in the third school participated in a token reinforcement program.
(19) So, by that token, the public would have loathed PMQs and loved the civilised debate on Stafford hospital that followed.
(20) d) What the patient learns in a token economic system may not be what the token economy's program director probably intends.