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). Then the stamp is affixed to the f ...

, used to indicate prepayment of fees for public mail *

Ration stamp Rationing is the controlled distribution of scarce resources, goods, services, or an artificial restriction of demand. Rationing controls the size of the ration, which is one's allowed portion of the resources being distributed on a particul ...

, 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 a rub ...

, 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, South Korea, and Sri Lank ...

, a rubber stamp inked impression received in one's passport upon entering or exiting a country ** National Park Passport Stamps * 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 government program that provides food-purchasing assistance for low- and no-income persons to help them maintai ...

Collectibles

Trading stamp Trading stamps were small paper stamps given to customers by merchants in loyalty programs in the United States, Canada and the U.K. which predated the modern loyalty card-based and online programs. Like the similarly-issued retailer coupons, these ...

, 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 Japan is an island country in East Asia. Located in the Pacific Ocean off the northeast coast of the Asia, Asian mainland, it is bordered on the west by the Sea of Japan and extends from the Sea of Okhotsk in the north to the East China Sea ...

Places

* Stamp Creek, a stream in Georgia *

Stamps, Arkansas Stamps is a city in Lafayette County, Arkansas, Lafayette County, Arkansas, United States. The population was 1,206 in 2024, a 28.78% decrease from the figure of 1,693 in 2010. History A post office has been in operation in Stamps since 1887. Th ...

People

* Stamp Brooksbank, English MP * Stamp Fairtex, mixed martial artist * Stamp or Apiwat Ueathavornsuk (born 1982), Thai singer-songwriter *

Stamp (surname) The surname Stamp is the anglicized version of the French family name, d'Étampes, which in turn is a locational derivation from Étampes (lat. ''Stampae''), a community near Paris, France. d'Étampes origins The mid-12th-century German colo ...

, people surnamed Stamp or Stamps * Stamps family, 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 (manufacturing), die surface forms the metal into a net shape. Stamping includes a variety of s ...

, 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 (grinding), mill machine that crushes material by pounding rather than Mill (grinding), grinding, either for further processing or for extraction of metallic ores. Breaking materia ...

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 i ...

, 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 unrol ...

, 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 the Upper Peninsula of Michigan, where it is black or dark gra ...

, 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 con ...

'' *

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 ...

, 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 (CFL), West Division of the Canadian Football League (CFL). The club plays its home games at McMahon Stadium a ...

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 stom ...

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

STAMP (accident analysis) Leveson in 2022 Nancy G. Leveson is an American specialist in system and software safety and a professor of Aeronautics and Astronautics at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), United States. Leveson gained her degrees (in computer scie ...

, System Theoretic Accident Modeling and Process, an

accident analysis Accident analysis is a process 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 in ...

framework developed by Nancy Leveson