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Stamp can be a noun or a verb.
stamp used as a noun:
- An act of stamping the foot, paw or hoof.
"The horse gave two quick stamps and rose up on its hind legs." - An indentation or imprint made by stamping.
"My passport has quite a collection of stamps." - A device for stamping designs.
"She loved to make designs with her collection of stamps." - A small piece of paper bearing a design on one side and adhesive on the other.
"These stamps are purely decorative." - A postage stamp.
"I need one first-class stamp to send this letter." - A tattoo
- A single dose of lysergic acid diethylamide
Nouns are naming words. They are used to represent a person (soldier, Jamie), place (Germany, beach), thing (telephone, mirror), quality (hardness, courage), or an action (a run, a punch). Learn more →
stamp used as a verb:
- To step quickly and heavily, once or repeatedly.
"The toddler screamed and stamped, but still got no candy." - To move (the foot or feet) quickly and heavily, once or repeatedly.
"The crowd cheered and stamped their feet in appreciation." - To mark by pressing quickly and heavily.
"This machine stamps the metal cover with a design." - To give an official marking to, generally by impressing or imprinting a design or symbol.
"The immigration officer stamped my passport." - To apply postage stamps to.
"I forgot to stamp this letter."
Verbs are action words and state of being words. Examples of action words are: ran, attacking, dreamed. Examples of "state of being" words are: is, was, be. Learn more →
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What type of word is stamp?
- Noun usage: The horse gave two quick stamps and rose up on its hind legs.
- Noun usage: My passport has quite a collection of stamps.
- Noun usage: She loved to make designs with her collection of stamps.
- Noun usage: These stamps are purely decorative.
- Noun usage: I need one first-class stamp to send this letter.
- Verb usage: The toddler screamed and stamped, but still got no candy.
- Verb usage: The crowd cheered and stamped their feet in appreciation.
- Verb usage: This machine stamps the metal cover with a design.
- Verb usage: This machine stamps the design into the metal cover.
- Verb usage: The immigration officer stamped my passport.
- Verb usage: I forgot to stamp this letter.
Unfortunately, with the current database that runs this site, I don't have data about which senses of stamp are used most commonly. I've got ideas about how to fix this but will need to find a source of "sense" frequencies. Hopefully there's enough info above to help you understand the part of speech of stamp, and guess at its most common usage.
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For those interested in a little info about this site: it's a side project that I developed while working on Describing Words and Related Words. Both of those projects are based around words, but have much grander goals. I had an idea for a website that simply explains the word types of the words that you search for - just like a dictionary, but focussed on the part of speech of the words. And since I already had a lot of the infrastructure in place from the other two sites, I figured it wouldn't be too much more work to get this up and running.
The dictionary is based on the amazing Wiktionary project by wikimedia. I initially started with WordNet, but then realised that it was missing many types of words/lemma (determiners, pronouns, abbreviations, and many more). This caused me to investigate the 1913 edition of Websters Dictionary - which is now in the public domain. However, after a day's work wrangling it into a database I realised that there were far too many errors (especially with the part-of-speech tagging) for it to be viable for Word Type.
Finally, I went back to Wiktionary - which I already knew about, but had been avoiding because it's not properly structured for parsing. That's when I stumbled across the UBY project - an amazing project which needs more recognition. The researchers have parsed the whole of Wiktionary and other sources, and compiled everything into a single unified resource. I simply extracted the Wiktionary entries and threw them into this interface! So it took a little more work than expected, but I'm happy I kept at it after the first couple of blunders.
Special thanks to the contributors of the open-source code that was used in this project: the UBY project (mentioned above), @mongodb and express.js.
Currently, this is based on a version of wiktionary which is a few years old. I plan to update it to a newer version soon and that update should bring in a bunch of new word senses for many words (or more accurately, lemma).
