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Stamp vs Vestige - What's the difference?

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Stamp is a related term of vestige.


As nouns the difference between stamp and vestige

is that stamp is an act of stamping the foot, paw or hoof while vestige is the mark of the foot left on the earth; a track or footstep; a trace; a sign.

As a verb stamp

is to step quickly and heavily, once or repeatedly.

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.
  • * {{quote-news
    • , year=2011 , date=September 18 , author=Ben Dirs , title=Rugby World Cup 2011: England 41-10 Georgia , work=BBC Sport citation , page= , passage=England's superior conditioning began to show in the final quarter and as the game began to break up, their three-quarters began to stamp their authority on the game. And when Foden went on a mazy run from inside his own 22 and put Ashton in for a long-range try, any threat of an upset was when and truly snuffed out.}}

    Synonyms

    * (mark by pressing quickly and heavily ): emboss, dent * (give an official marking to ): impress, imprint

    Related terms

    * date stamp * postage stamp * rubber stamp * stamp album * stamp-collecting * stamp duty * stamp of approval * stamp out * stamping ground * timestamp

    Anagrams

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    vestige

    English

    (Webster 1913)

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • The mark of the foot left on the earth; a track or footstep; a trace; a sign.
  • A faint mark or visible sign left by something which is lost, or has perished, or is no longer present; remains.
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  • *{{quote-book, year=1944, author=(w)
    • , title= The Three Corpse Trick, chapter=5 , passage=The hovel stood in the centre of what had once been a vegetable garden, but was now a patch of rank weeds. Surrounding this, almost like a zareba, was an irregular ring of gorse and brambles, an unclaimed vestige of the original common.}}
  • (label) A vestigial organ; a non-functional organ or body part that was once functional in an evolutionary ancestor.
  • * 1904 Transactions of theannual session , Volume 40, Homeopathic Medical Society of the State of Pennsylvania, p160
    • Any person seeing such a condition could not help being frightened at the conditions found, and it seems to me that that fact should lead us to think that the appendix is a vestige or becoming so.
  • * 1932 (John Arthur Thomson), Riddles of science, Ayer Publishing, p824
    • Now this paired organ of Jacobsen began in reptiles and is well developed in many mammals. But in man it is a vestige , often disappearing altogether; and the two openings are closed.
  • * 2007 R. Randal Bollingera, Andrew S. Barbasa, Errol L. Busha, Shu S. Lina, & William Parkera, "Biofilms in the large bowel suggest an apparent function of the human vermiform appendix," Journal of Theoretical Biology
    • This idea was confirmed by Scott, who performed a detailed comparative analysis of primate anatomy and demonstrated conclusively that the appendix is derived for some unidentified function and is not a vestige .

    Derived terms

    * vestigial

    See also

    * hint * trace

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