Stamp vs Trace - What's the difference?

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Stamp is a related term of trace.

As verbs the difference between stamp and trace

is that stamp is to step quickly and heavily, once or repeatedly while trace is .

As a noun stamp

is an act of stamping the foot, paw or hoof.

stamp

English

Noun

(en noun)

An act of stamping the foot, paw or hoof.

The horse gave two quick stamps and rose up on its hind legs.

* 1922 , (Margery Williams), (The Velveteen Rabbit)

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.

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, used to decorate letters or craft work.

These stamps have a Christmas theme.

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.

I need one first-class stamp to send this letter.

Now that commerce is done electronically, tax stamps are no longer issued here .

(slang, figuratively) A tattoo

(slang) A single dose of lysergic acid diethylamide

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 stamp

Derived terms

* rubber stamp * timestamp

Verb

(en 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 strike, beat, or press forcibly with the bottom of the foot, or by thrusting the foot downward.

* Dryden

He frets, he fumes, he stares, he stamps the ground.

(Shakespeare)

To mark by pressing quickly and heavily.

This machine stamps the metal cover with a design.

This machine stamps the design into the metal cover.

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.

(figurative) To mark; to impress.

* John Locke

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, imprint

Anagrams

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trace

English

(wikipedia trace)

Etymology 1

From (etyl) trace, traas, from (etyl) , from the verb (see below).

Noun

(en noun)

An act of tracing.

A mark left as a sign of passage of a person or animal.

A very small amount.

* {{quote-book, year=1963, author=(Margery Allingham), title=(The China Governess)

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(electronics) An electric current-carrying conductive pathway on a printed circuit board.

An informal road or prominent path in an arid area.

One of two straps, chains, or ropes of a harness, extending from the collar or breastplate to a whippletree attached to a vehicle or thing to be drawn; a tug.

(fortification) The ground plan of a work or works.

The intersection of a plane of projection, or an original plane, with a coordinate plane.

(mathematics) The sum of the diagonal elements of a square matrix.

Derived terms

* downtrace, uptrace

Synonyms

* (mark left as a sign of passage of a person or animal) track, trail * (small amount) see also .

Etymology 2

From (etyl) tracen, from (etyl) tracer, .

Verb

To follow the trail of.

* Milton

I feel thy power to trace the ways / Of highest agents.

(Cowper)

To follow the history of.

* T. Burnet

You may trace the deluge quite round the globe.

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To draw or sketch lightly or with care.

He carefully traced the outlines of the old building before him.

To copy onto a sheet of paper superimposed over the original, by drawing over its lines.

(obsolete) To copy; to imitate.

* Denham

That servile path thou nobly dost decline, / Of tracing word, and line by line.

(obsolete) To walk; to go; to travel.

* Spenser

Not wont on foot with heavy arms to trace .

(obsolete) To walk over; to pass through; to traverse.

* Shakespeare

We do trace this alley up and down.

Anagrams

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