Stamp or Stamps or Stamping may refer to:

Official documents and related impressions

Postage stamp A postage stamp is a small piece of paper issued by a post office, postal administration, or other authorized vendors to customers who pay postage (the cost involved in moving, insuring, or registering mail), who then affix the stamp to the fa ...

, used to indicate prepayment of fees for public mail *

Ration stamp A ration stamp, ration coupon or ration card is a stamp or card issued by a government to allow the holder to obtain food or other commodities that are in short supply during wartime or in other emergency situations when rationing is in for ...

, indicating the right to rationed goods *

Revenue stamp A revenue stamp, tax stamp, duty stamp or fiscal stamp is a (usually) adhesive label used to designate collected taxes or fees on documents, tobacco, alcoholic drinks, drugs and medicines, playing cards, hunting licenses, firearm registration, ...

, used on documents to indicate payment of tax *

Rubber stamp A rubber stamp is an image or pattern that has been carved, molded, laser engraved or vulcanized onto a sheet of rubber. Rubber stamping, also called stamping, is a craft in which some type of ink made of dye or pigment is applied to rubber ...

, device used to apply inked markings to objects **

Passport stamp A passport stamp is an inked impression in a passport typically made by rubber stamp upon entering or exiting a territory. Passport stamps may occasionally take the form of sticker stamps, such as entry stamps from Japan. Depending on nationality, ...

, a rubber stamp inked impression received in one's passport upon entering or exiting a country **

National Park Passport Stamps Passport to Your National Parks is a program through which ink stamps can be acquired at no cost at park visitor centers and ranger stations at nearly all of the units of the United States National Park System and most of the National Park Servi ...

* Food stamps, tickets used in the United States that indicate the right to benefits in the

Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program In the United States, the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP), formerly known as the Food Stamp Program, is a federal program that provides food-purchasing assistance for low- and no-income people. It is a federal aid program, ad ...

Collectibles

Trading stamp Trading stamps are small paper stamps given to customers by merchants in loyalty programs that predate the modern loyalty card. Like the similarly-issued retailer coupons, these stamps only had a minimal cash value of a few mils (thousandths of a ...

, a small paper stamp given to customers by merchants in loyalty programs that predate the modern loyalty card * Eki stamp, a free collectible rubber ink stamp found at many train stations in Japan

Places

* Stamp Creek, a stream in Georgia *

Stamps, Arkansas Stamps is a city in Lafayette County, Arkansas, United States. The population was 1,693 at the 2010 census, down from 2,131 at the 2000 census. History A post office has been in operation in Stamps since 1887. The community has the name of the ...

People

* Stamp or

Apiwat Ueathavornsuk Apiwat Ueathavornsuk (previously spelled Eurthavornsuk, th, อภิวัชร์ เอื้อถาวรสุข, born 1982), nicknamed Stamp, is a Thai singer-songwriter and musical theatre actor. Biography Apiwat Ueathavornsuk was born ...

(born 1982), Thai singer-songwriter * Stamp (surname), people surnamed Stamp or Stamps *

Stamps family The Stamps family is an American ancestral group consisting of patrilineal descendants of 17th century Virginia colonists whose surnames were "Stampe," "Stamp," or "Stamps." During the late 18th century, Stamps descendants moved south and west fr ...

, American surname

Manufacturing

Stamping (metalworking) Stamping (also known as pressing) is the process of placing flat sheet metal in either blank or coil form into a stamping press where a tool and die surface forms the metal into a net shape. Stamping includes a variety of sheet-metal forming ...

, a process in which metal is formed with a press * Stamps, the heavy weights used to crush ore in a

stamp mill A stamp mill (or stamp battery or stamping mill) is a type of mill machine that crushes material by pounding rather than grinding, either for further processing or for extraction of metallic ores. Breaking material down is a type of unit operatio ...

Leather stamping Leather crafting or simply leathercraft is the practice of making leather into craft objects or works of art, using shaping techniques, coloring techniques or both. Techniques Dyeing The application of pigments carried by solvents or water in ...

, a leatherworking process *

Progressive stamping Progressive Die is a metalworking method that can encompass punching, coining, bending and several other ways of modifying metal raw material, combined with an automatic feeding system. The feeding system pushes a strip of metal (as it unrolls ...

, a manufacturing process *

Stamp sand Stamp sand is a coarse sand left over from the processing of ore in a stamp mill. In the United States, the most well-known deposits of stamp sand are in the Copper Country of northern Michigan, where it is black or dark gray, and may contain ha ...

, a by-product of stamp mills

Other uses

* ''Stamps'' (album), a 1979 album by saxophonist Steve Lacy * "Stamp", a song by the Rural Alberta Advantage from the 2011 album ''

Departing ''Departing'' is the second full-length album by Canadian indie rock band The Rural Alberta Advantage, released March 1, 2011 on Paper Bag Records in Canada and Saddle Creek Records in the United States. In a review of their December 2010 concer ...

'' *

BASIC Stamp The BASIC Stamp is a microcontroller with a small, specialized BASIC interpreter (PBASIC) built into ROM. It is made by Parallax, Inc. and has been popular with electronics hobbyists since the early 1990s. Technical specifications Although the ...

, a microcontroller * Stamps, a nickname for the

Calgary Stampeders The Calgary Stampeders are a professional Canadian football team based in Calgary, Alberta. The Stampeders compete in the West Division of the Canadian Football League (CFL). The club plays its home games at McMahon Stadium and are the third-old ...

football team *

Stomp (strike) A stomp (also referred to as a stamp) is a downwards strike with the heel of the foot from the stand-up position, and is usually directed at the head or body of a downed opponent. A stomp similar to an axe kick is referred to as an axe stomp, w ...

, a downwards kick using the heel that outside North America is called a stamp *

STAMP (accident analysis) Nancy G. Leveson is an American specialist in system and software safety and a Professor of Aeronautics and Astronautics at MIT, United States. Leveson gained her degrees (in computer science, mathematics and management) from UCLA, including he ...

, System Theoretic Accident Modeling and Process, an

accident analysis Accident analysis is carried out in order to determine the cause or causes of an accident (that can result in single or multiple outcomes) so as to prevent further accidents of a similar kind. It is part of ''accident investigation or incident inv ...

framework developed by Nancy Leveson