# stamping

Pronunciation: say "STAM-ping" /ˈstæmpɪŋ/

## Verb

1. Present participle of stamp. — present participle and gerund of stamp
   - Simple: Present participle of stamp. Use it for something happening now or for the action itself.
   - _Stamping his feet in fury, he marched out of the meeting._
   - _The clerk spent all morning stamping passports at the border._

## Noun

2. The forceful act of bringing a foot down hard, or the noise that the movement produces.
   - Simple: The act or sound of bringing a foot down hard on the ground.
   - _His furious stamping echoed through the empty corridor._
   - _The dancers' rhythmic stampings shook the old wooden floor._
3. A manufacturing method that forms parts by pressing material between dies under extreme pressure.
   - Simple: A way of shaping parts by pressing material with heavy tools and dies.
   - _Stamping produces thousands of identical parts in a single shift._
   - _The plant switched from casting to stamping for the steel brackets._
4. A component produced by shaping material with dies under extreme pressure.
   - Simple: A part that has been pressed into shape between heavy dies.
   - _Each stamping is inspected for hairline cracks before it reaches the welding line._
   - _The crate held hundreds of metal stampings ready for assembly._

Source: DictionaryAI, https://dictionaryai.com/define/stamping (written from Wiktionary data, CC BY-SA 4.0: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/).