stamping

Pluralstampings

1. 1
   verb

   Present participle of stamp. Use it for something happening now or for the action itself.

   She kept stamping the snow off her boots at the front door.

   The kids were stamping their feet to stay warm at the bus stop.

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2. 2
   nouncountable or uncountable

   The act or sound of bringing a foot down hard on the ground.

   Like the heavy thump you make when you bring your foot down hard.

   We heard loud stamping from the room upstairs all evening.

   The baby's stamping made everyone in the kitchen laugh.

   Similarstomping, thumping, pounding, tramping

3. 3
   noununcountable

   A way of shaping parts by pressing material with heavy tools and dies.

   Like pressing a cookie cutter hard into dough to make a shape.

   The factory uses stamping to make car door panels.

   Stamping presses the flat metal into shape very quickly.

   Similarpressing

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4. 4
   nouncountable

   A part that has been pressed into shape between heavy dies.

   Like the shape left after a cookie cutter has pressed it out of the dough.

   Each metal stamping must be checked for cracks before assembly.

   The box was full of small stampings fresh from the press.

   Similarpressing

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