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[ verb ] walk heavily
Examples "The men stomped through the snow i their heavy boots" Used in print (John Dos Passos, Midcentury....)`` I could scratch her eyes out '' , Eileen cried and stamped her foot when I came_back from the phone_booth . (Leo Lemon, "Catch Up With" and "Something to...)The battle of the drib-drool continues , but most of New_York 's knowing sophisticates of Abstract_Expressionism are stamping their feet impatiently in expectation of V ( for Vindication ) Day , September first , when Augustus_Quasimodo 's first one-man show opens at the Guggenheim . |
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[ verb ] to mark, or produce an imprint in or on something
Examples : "a man whose name is permanently stamped on our maps," Used in print (James Boylan, "Mutinity"...)Second , they believed it important to determine the fate of the captain - a man whose name is permanently stamped on our maps , on American towns and counties , on a great American river , and on half a_million square_miles of Arctic seas . Related terms |
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[ verb ] treat or classify according to a mental stereotype
Synonyms Examples "I was stereotyped as a lazy Southern European" Used in print (The Providence Journal...)The dialogue is sharp , witty and candid - typical `` do n't eat the daisies '' material - which has stamped the author throughout her books and plays , and it was obvious that the Theatre-by-the-Sea audience liked it . |
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[ noun ] a symbol that is the result of printing
Synonyms Examples "he put his stamp on the envelope" Used in print (The Christian Science Monitor,...)In any given period_piece the costumes , bric-a-brac , vehicles , and decor , bear the stamp of unimpeachable authenticity . Related terms |
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[ noun ] a type or class
Examples "more men of his stamp are needed" Used in print (Edward P. Lawton, "Northern Liberals and Southern...)This seems like an attitude favoring a sort of totalitarian bureaucracy which , under a President of the same stamp , would try to coerce an uncooperative Congress or Supreme_Court . Related terms |
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[ verb ] destroy or extinguish as if by stamping with the foot
Examples "Stamp fascism into submission" "stamp out tyranny" Used in print (Musical America, LXXXI:5...)The world exploded when Fascism challenged all concepts of peace and liberty , and the outraged , freedom loving peoples of the Capitalist and Socialist worlds combined forces to stamp Fascist tyranny into cringing submission . Related terms |
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[ verb ] reveal clearly as having a certain character
Examples : "His playing stamps him as a Romantic" Used in print (High Fidelity, 11:10...)Schnabel 's emphasis on structural clarity , his innate rhythmic vibrancy , and impetuous intensity all tend to stamp his reading as a symphonic one . Related terms |
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[ noun ] a token that postal fees have been paid
Synonyms Used in print (Breni James, Nights of the Kill....)The safe is a repository for three dead flashlight_batteries , a_hundred and fifty unused left-hand fingerprint cards , a stack of unsold Policemen's_Ball tickets from last year , and thirty-seven cents in coins and stamps . Related terms |
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[ noun ] the distinctive form in which a thing is made
Examples "pottery of this cast was found throughout the region" Used in print (Chester G. Starr, The Origins of Greek Civili...)While Protogeometric vases usually turn_up , especially outside Greece proper , together with as_many or more examples of local stamp , these `` non Greek '' patterns had mostly vanished by the later ninth century . |
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[ noun ] Last name, frequency rank in the U.S. is 7510
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[ verb ] crush or grind with a heavy instrument, as of fruit, to extract the juice
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