stamp
3
8.6
- noun
- /stæmp/
- Archaic
:
máquina trituradora (de mineral)
- The old stamp machine in the factory was essential for crushing the ore into a fine powder.
Examples
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After several modifications, the new stamp successfully pounded the raw materials into the desired shape.
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To produce high-quality materials, the engineers designed a stamp that could withstand great pressure.
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Don't use the stamp machine for personal letters.
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The main challenge in performing such parallel printing is to obtain a stamp inked locally with different proteins.
Academic text (2001) -
The width of the contact zone between the stamp and the substrate was approximately 2 mm, leading to maximum pressures of 40 kPa.
Academic text (2001) -
The instrument comes with Windows-based software that features time, date, and site-code stamping.
Academic text (1997) -
We are developing a high-resolution printing technique based on transferring a pattern from an elastomeric stamp to a solid substrate by conformal contact.
Academic text (2001)
Synonyms
141
4.1
A machine that uses pressure to shape, cut, or squeeze things
20
2.2
A machine that grinds materials like grain and coffee
3
9.5
A set of heavy machines used to crush rock in a mine
A heavy bar in a machine that moves up and down to crush rocks
A machine that crushes rock to get metal from it
A machine that crushes rock that has metal in it to get metals like gold
A machine with heavy metal weights that fall to crush rock to get gold
A machine that uses force to shape, cut, or squeeze materials
Compounds
- Archaic
153
2.5
A government card or paper that people with little money use to buy food at certain stores
1
7.8
A law that puts a paid official stamp on newspapers and legal papers in the American colonies which causes protests
- Archaic
1
5.4
A small paper token shops give customers to collect and exchange for goods
- UK
1
7.2
A payment you make by buying an official stamp and putting it on certain documents
A small old paper used to pay for sending letters and often kept by collectors
How Powerful
Surface Forms
Etymology
Stamp for a heavy machine comes from the old verb 'to stamp' meaning 'to pound', and a mining stamp is a big device that pounds rock to crush it into smaller pieces.