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say it: stamp
stamp is a noun and verb meaning "the distinctive form in which a thing is made". It carries 18 recorded senses.
a symbol that is the result of printing or engraving
“he put his stamp on the envelope”
a small adhesive token stuck on a letter or package to indicate that that postal fees have been paid
something that can be used as an official medium of payment
a small piece of adhesive paper that is put on an object to show that a government tax has been paid
a block or die used to imprint a mark or design
to mark, or produce an imprint in or on something
“a man whose name is permanently stamped on our maps”
treat or classify according to a mental stereotype
“I was stereotyped as a lazy Southern European”
destroy or extinguish as if by stamping with the foot
“Stamp fascism into submission”
“stamp out tyranny”
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for stamp come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.