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Definition: Stamper |
StamperNoun1. A workman whose job is to form or cut out by applying a mold or die (either by hand or by operating a stamping machine). 2. Someone who walks with a heavy noisy gait or who stamps on the ground. 3. A power tool that stamps; "a metal stamper". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "stamper" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1868. (references) |
| Domain | Definition |
Electrical Engineering | A negative metal part generated by an electroplating process from which finished pressings are moulded. A stamper can be generated either from a metal positive i. e. a mother or from a lacquer original. Source: European Union. (references) |
Food & Agriculture | A wooden tool consisting of a flat base mounted on a long handle. Used for punching the cap during fermentation or for crushing grapes in somes countries. Source: European Union. (references) |
Occupations | Operates machine to emboss and imprint designs, lettering, numbers, or product information onto surfaces of material, such as paper, cloth, leather, or plastic, using foil, gold-leaf, coated ribbon, or plastic tape, following specifications: Receives verbal instructions, reads work order sheet, or inserts disk in drive of computer and depresses keys to retrieve job order slip with printing instructions on computer screen. Sets heat, pressure, and time controls, according to material to be stamped. Installs and locks character wheel, embossing die, or stamping die in heated chase of machine. Turns on heating element. Inserts reel of specified material, such as foil, gold-leaf, coated ribbon, or plastic tape in holder or on spindle, and threads end through rollers which feed and guide material under die mounted on ram of machine or places sheet of foil over impression. Positions and aligns workpiece under holding arm in bed of hand fed machine or feed hopper of automatically fed machine in position specified on work order or in illuminated window on computerized machine. Starts machine which lowers ram to heated die or character wheel and ribbon to emboss and imprint workpiece and automatically moves coated ribbon with each stroke of machine. May operate machine to imprint trade names, brand, and grade onto leather sweatbands and be designated Sweatband Printer (hat & cap). When printing titles and designs on book covers, is designated Embosser (print. & pub.). When imprinting identifying information on battery lids or encasements, is designated Embossing-Press Operator (elec. equip.). (references) |
| Marks or affixes trademarks or other identifying information, such as size, color, grade, or process code, on merchandise, material, or product, using one or more methods, such as metal punch and hammer, crayon, rubber stamp and ink, electric pencil, branding iron, acid and stencil, sand-grit and stencil, or tags. May inspect items before marking. May attach gummed labels to merchandise, material, or product, using tag dispensing machine. May clean items. May use printing mechanism or labeling press. When marking is performed as task of packaging duties, worker should be classified according to type of packaging performed as PACKAGER, HAND (any industry) 920.587-018; PACKAGER, MACHINE (any industry) 920.685-078; or BALING-MACHINE TENDER (any industry) 920.685-010. (references) | |
| Tends machine that imprints trade name or other identifying symbols on shoe parts: Obtains embossed plate specified on work ticket and positions it in heated upper stamping beam of machine. Positions spool of colored embossing ribbon on machine spindle and draws it through guides, under stamping beam, and between feed rollers. Positions shoe part on machine bed. Depresses pedal that lowers stamping beam and embossed plate, pressing colored ribbon against shoe part and imprinting trade name or other symbols on part. May remove embossing ribbon from machine to imprint trade name without color. May be designated according to part stamped as Bottom Stamper (boot & shoe); Sock-Lining And Heel-Pad Embosser (boot & shoe). (references) | |
| Tends machines that fill metal kegs with beer in keg-filling (racking) room of brewery: Pushes metal keg or barrel onto conveyor leading to racking machine. Lifts barrel from conveyor and positions barrel on machine. Lowers filling arm of counter-pressure filling machine (racker), and fits nozzle into bung. Turns valves that pressurize barrel and start flow of beer. Turns valve that releases filling arm when sight glass indicates barrel is full and raises arm. Pounds wooden plug into bung, using mallet. Presses pedal to roll barrel onto conveyor. Affixes revenue stamp over taphole, using staples or glue. Rolls barrel from conveyor to loading chute or storage area. Washes machine and floor, using hose. (references) | |
| Tends machine that presses hat-body material, such as crinoline, paper, or buckram between dies to form hat crowns or cap visors: Places sheets of precut material between layers of wet cardboard or dampens material with sponge to soften material preparatory to pressing. Stretches softened material over heated crown-shaped lower die and depresses pedal, causing upper die to descend and press material into shape of hat crown. (references) | |
| Tends press that compacts deodorant and mothicide crystals into blocks: Bolts dies in press, using handtools. Pours crystals into lower half of press die. Turns handwheel to force upper half of die down and press crystals into block form. Lifts lever to eject block from press. (references) | |
| Tends handpress that imprints design on wooden buttons: Positions and fastens die in handpress. Places button in holder under die and pulls lever to lower die that imprints design on button. (references) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Synonyms: StamperSynonyms: stamping machine (n), stomper (n), tramper (n), trampler (n). (additional references) |
Crosswords: Stamper |
| Specialty definitions using "stamper": CENTER-PUNCH OPERATOR ♦ INJECTOR ASSEMBLER ♦ MATRIX PLATER, MATRIX WORKER, mold dresser, MOLD STAMPER AND REPAIRER ♦ NECK STAMPER. (references) |
| Non-English Usage: "Stamper" is also a word in the following language with the English translation in parentheses. Dutch (pestle). |
| Domain | Usage | |
Screenplays | Mr. Stamper, would you please kill those bastards? (Tomorrow Never Dies; writing credit: Bruce Feirstein) | |
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| Thumbnail | Description & Credit |  | William Stamper and wife who have lived in the Ozarks for fifty years. Missouri. Credit: Library of Congress. |
Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits. | |||
| "Stamper" is generally used as a noun (proper) -- approximately 75.00% of the time. "Stamper" is used about 8 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (proper) | 75% | 6 | 143,867 |
| Noun (singular) | 25% | 2 | 245,945 |
| Total | 100.00% | 8 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following table summarizes the usage of "stamper" based on a population census conducted in the United States. Ranks and frequencies are based on all names reported and classified. |
| Name | Usage/Gender | Usage per 100 million Persons | Rank in USA |
| Stamper | Last name | 5,000 | 2,488 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits. | |||
| Hypenated Usage | |
Ending with "stamper": Byng-stamper. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Language | Translations for "stamper"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Chinese | 模子 (Dice, die, Dies, mold, Mould). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Danish | stempel (adjustable short circuit, die-stamped marking, male plug, matrix, piston, plunger, plunger tip, stamp), pres-matrice, druestempel (plunger). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch | stamper (pestle), matrijs (matrix). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Finnish | survin (pestle), puristusmatriisi, petkel (plunger, punner, rammer, tamper). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | semottoir, pilon, matrice (stereotype dry mat, usually of a hard metal such as steel). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | Stampfen (kick, mash, paw, pitch, pound, pounding, press, stamp, stampers, stomp, tramp, tread, trudge), Traubenstampfer (plunger), Matrize (die, matrix, Mold, skin, stencil). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | κόπανος (jerk), εκτυπωτής μήτρα, Τυπωτήσ, Σφραγιστήσ. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hebrew | ַתם. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | Stampatore (lineprinter, printer), pestello (Muller, pestle), mazzuolo (mallet), matrice (counterfoil, die, matrix, Mold, mould, stencil), follatore (fuller), calcatoio (charging rod, plunger, stemmer, stemming rod, stopper, tamping bar, tamping block, tamping pole, tamping stick), ammostatoio (plunger). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Manx | stampeyder. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | amperstay recalcador (plunger), matriz (die, former, head office, headquarters, matrix, parent company, pattern, rubber stamp, stamp, womb), macaco (ape, hoist, jack, jackanapes, macaco, macaque, monkey, simian), calcador (plunger), batedor (bat, batsman, beater, coiner, escort, feeler, knocker, picker, scutch, thrasher, tracker, walloper). (various references) Pecete (chop, seal, stamp), ştampilã (chop, seal, stamp). (various references) штамповщик. (various references) pilón (loaf, pylon), mazo (beetle, club, gavel, mace, mallet, maul, pounder), matriz (matrix, womb). (various references) presspatris. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "stamper": stampers. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "stamper" (pronounced sta"mper) |
| 5 | -t a" m p er | tamper. |
| 4 | -a" m p er | camper, damper, hamper, pamper, scamper. |
| 3 | -m p er | bumper, distemper, dumper, jumper, lumper, mumper, shrimper, simper, swamper, temper, Thumper, whimper. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: restamp, tampers. | |
| Words within the letters "a-e-m-p-r-s-t" | |
-1 letter: armets, master, maters, matres, paster, paters, prates, ramets, remaps, repast, stream, tamers, tamper, tapers, tramps, trapes. | |
-2 letters: apers, apres, apter, armet, asper, aster, mares, marse, marts, maser, mater, mates, meats, pares, parse, parts, paste, pater, pates, pears, peart, peats, perms, prams, prase, prate, prats, presa, prest, ramet, ramps, rapes, rates, reams, reaps. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-e-m-p-r-s-t" | |
+1 letter: prestamp, primates, restamps, stampers, temperas, templars, tempuras, trampers, tramples, upstream. | |
+2 letters: aspartame, attempers, impacters, imparters, malaperts, metaphors, misparted, mousetrap, paraments, paymaster, permeates, preadmits, prestamps, rebaptism, restamped, septarium, spearmint, spermatia, spermatic, spermatid, spymaster, stampeder, tamperers, tapeworms, temporals, tramplers. | |
+3 letters: ambrotypes, ametropias, apartments, aspartames, atmosphere, campestral, compacters, escarpment, imparities, imperators, impetrates, implanters, imprecates, mastership, mercaptans, metacarpus, metaphrase, mousetraps, parameters, parchments, paymasters, pentagrams, permafrost, permanents, postmarked, postmaster, preformats, prematures, prestamped, protamines, psalterium, reattempts, rebaptisms, reimplants, repayments, restamping, separatism, shipmaster, slipstream, spearmints, spermaceti, spermatial, spermatids, spermatium, spymasters, stampeders, streetlamp, subprimate, supersmart, sympatries, trapeziums, treponemas. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro. | |
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