Stamp vs Proof - What's the difference?
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An act of stamping the foot, paw or hoof.
* 1922 , (Margery Williams), (The Velveteen Rabbit)
An indentation or imprint made by stamping.
A device for stamping designs.
A small piece of paper bearing a design on one side and adhesive on the other, used to decorate letters or craft work.
A small piece of paper, with a design and a face value, used to prepay postage or other costs such as tax or licence fees.
(slang, figuratively) A tattoo
(slang) A single dose of lysergic acid diethylamide
To step quickly and heavily, once or repeatedly.
To move (the foot or feet) quickly and heavily, once or repeatedly.
To strike, beat, or press forcibly with the bottom of the foot, or by thrusting the foot downward.
* Dryden
To mark by pressing quickly and heavily.
To give an official marking to, generally by impressing or imprinting a design or symbol.
To apply postage stamps to.
(figurative) To mark; to impress.
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(countable) An effort, process, or operation designed to establish or discover a fact or truth; an act of testing; a test; a trial.
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(uncountable) The degree of evidence which convinces the mind of any truth or fact, and produces belief; a test by facts or arguments which induce, or tend to induce, certainty of the judgment; conclusive evidence; demonstration.
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The quality or state of having been proved or tried; firmness or hardness which resists impression, or doesn't yield to force; impenetrability of physical bodies.
(obsolete) Experience of something.
* 1590 , (Edmund Spenser), The Faerie Queene , III.1:
(uncountable, obsolete) Firmness of mind; stability not to be shaken.
(countable, printing) A proof sheet; a trial impression, as from type, taken for correction or examination.
(countable, logic, mathematics) A sequence of statements consisting of axioms, assumptions, statements already demonstrated in another proof, and statements that logically follow from previous statements in the sequence, and which concludes with a statement that is the object of the proof.
(countable, mathematics) A process for testing the accuracy of an operation performed. Compare prove, transitive verb , 5.
(obsolete) Armour of excellent or tried quality, and deemed impenetrable; properly, armour of proof.
(US) A measure of the alcohol content of liquor. Originally, in Britain, 100 proof' was defined as 57.1% by volume (not used anymore). In the US, 100 '''proof''' means that the alcohol content is 50% of the total volume of the liquid, and thus, absolute alcohol would be 200 ' proof .
Used in proving or testing.
Firm or successful in resisting.
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* 1790 , , Reflections on the Revolution in France'', 1803, ''The Works of The Right Honourable Edmund Burke , Volume 5,
(of alcoholic liquors) Being of a certain standard as to alcohol content.
To proofread.
(lb) To make resistant, especially to water.
To allow to rise (of yeast-containing dough).
To test the activeness of (yeast).
Stamp is a related term of proof.
As nouns the difference between stamp and proof
is that stamp is an act of stamping the foot, paw or hoof while proof is (countable) an effort, process, or operation designed to establish or discover a fact or truth; an act of testing; a test; a trial.As verbs the difference between stamp and proof
is that stamp is to step quickly and heavily, once or repeatedly while proof is to proofread.As an adjective proof is
used in proving or testing.stamp
English
Noun
(en noun)- The horse gave two quick stamps and rose up on its hind legs.
- Just then there was a sound of footsteps, and the Boy ran past near them, and with a stamp of feet and a flash of white tails the two strange rabbits disappeared.
- My passport has quite a collection of stamps .
- She loved to make designs with her collection of stamps .
- These stamps have a Christmas theme.
- I need one first-class stamp to send this letter.
- Now that commerce is done electronically, tax stamps are no longer issued here .
Synonyms
* (act of stamping ): * (indentation or imprint made by stamping ): * (device for stamping designs ): * (paper used to indicate payment has been paid ): postage stamp, revenue stamp, tax stampDerived terms
* rubber stamp * timestampVerb
(en verb)- The toddler screamed and stamped , but still got no candy.
- The crowd cheered and stamped their feet in appreciation.
- He frets, he fumes, he stares, he stamps the ground.
- (Shakespeare)
- This machine stamps the metal cover with a design.
- This machine stamps the design into the metal cover.
- The immigration officer stamped my passport.
- I forgot to stamp this letter.
- God has stamped no original characters on our minds wherein we may read his being.
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Synonyms
* (mark by pressing quickly and heavily ): emboss, dent * (give an official marking to ): impress, imprintAnagrams
* 1000 English basic words ----proof
English
(wikipedia proof)Noun
''Humorous Poems,
- But the false Fox most kindly played his part,
- For whatsoever mother-wit or art
- Could work he put in proof . No practice sly,
- No counterpoint of cunning policy,
- No reach, no breach, that might him profit bring.
- But he the same did to his purpose wring.
- France I more praise and love; you are, my lord,
- Yourself for horsemanship much famed; and there
- You shall have many proofs to shew your skill.
- A given quantity of the spirits was poured upon a quantity of gunpowder in a dish and set on fire. If at the end of the combustion, the gunpowder continued dry enough, it took fire and exploded; but if it had been wetted by the water in the spirits, the flame of the alcohol went out without setting the powder on fire. This was called the proof .
- I'll have some proof .
- It was a grand sentence of Emanuel Swedenborg, which would alone indicate the greatness of that man's perception, — "It is no proof of a man's understanding to be able to confirm whatever he pleases; but to be able to discern that what is true is true, and that what is false is false, this is the mark and character of intelligence."
- Faith, faith is an island in the setting sun
- But proof , yes
- Proof is the bottom line for everyone
- But the chaste damzell, that had never priefe / Of such malengine and fine forgerye, / Did easely beleeve her strong extremitye.
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Hyponyms
* testimony * evidence * reason * argument * trial * demonstrationDerived terms
* artist's proof * burden of proof * conditional proof * prooflike * proof reader * proof of conceptAdjective
(en adjective)- a proof''' load''; ''a '''proof charge
- proof against harm
- water'''proof'''''; '''''bombproof .
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- And opportunity I here have had / To try thee, sift thee, and confess have found thee / Proof against all temptation as a rock / Of adamant, and, as a centre, firm :
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- This was a good, ?tout proof article of faith, pronounced under an anathema, by the venerable fathers of this philo?ophick ?ynod.