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Definitions: TAMPING |
TAMPINGNoun1. The material used in tamping. See Tamp, v. t., 1. 2. The act of one who tamps; specifically, the act of filling up a hole in a rock, or the branch of a mine, for the purpose of blasting the rock or exploding the mine. Personal pronoun & verb & noun1. Of Tamp |
Date "TAMPING" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1550. (references) |
| Domain | Definitions |
Building & Civil Engineering | Ordinary hand methods of compaction consist of rodding, tamping, and spading with suitable tools. Source: European Union. (references) |
Metallurgy | Shaping with a tamping machine. Source: European Union. (references) |
Mining | The act of inserting and packing explosives and stemming in a shothole. Source: European Union. (references) |
| The act of pushing and tamping the stemming material into the hole. Source: European Union. (references) | |
| The material used to fill a shothole after the explosive blowing out along the hole. Source: European Union. (references) | |
| A. The act of inserting and packing explosives and stemming in a shothole. See also:stemmer b. The act of packing a drilled hole around a cartridge with fine dirt from the floor of a mine before blasting, to prevent a misdirection of the force of the blast c. The material placed over a charge in a borehole, to better confine the force of the explosion to the lower part of the hole d. Ramming down, as of ballast e. The operation of compacting freshly placed concrete by repeated blows f. The shaping of a semidry powder, e.g., of refractory material, in a mold by repeated blows delivered mechanically on the top mold plat. (references) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
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| "TAMPING" is generally used as a lexical verb (-ing form) -- approximately 75.00% of the time. "TAMPING" is used about 4 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 |
| Lexical Verb (-ing form) | 75% | 3 | 202,518 |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 25% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 4 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expressions using "TAMPING": tamping bar ♦ tamping block ♦ Tamping iron ♦ tamping pole ♦ tamping rod ♦ tamping stick. Additional references. | |
| 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. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
tamping | 4 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "TAMPING"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Chinese | 填塞 (Padded). (various references) | |
Danish | pakning (bordering, compacting, encapsulation, fitting, fomentation, gasket, gland packing, joint, jointing, pack, package, packaging, packing, poultice), forladning (stemming, stemming material). (various references) | |
Dutch | opvulling (back-filling, embankment, fill, fill embankment, padding, stemming, stemming material), opvullen (pad, padding, stemming, stuff, upholster), opstopping (bordering, hold-up, obstruction, stemming, stemming material, tailback, traffic jam), opstoppen (hamper, hinder, impede, obstruct, stand in the way of, stemming), afdichtingsmateriaal (stemming, stemming material), afdichten (lute, luting, luting up, make up, making up, mudding up, stemming), aandrukken van de opvulling (packing). (various references) | |
French | tassement, pilonnage, damage, bourre, bourrage (tamponade, tamponage). (various references) | |
German | zustopfend (plugging, stopping up). (various references) | |
Greek | συμπίεση (compacting, compaction, compression, constriction, data compression, packing, release phase, rendering, rolling, squeeze, upsetting), στούμπωμα (packing), γέμισμα (bottling, cross, cushion, cushioning, fell, fill, filler, filling, insulation fill, loading, packing, pad, padding, stuffing), υλικό επιγόμωσης (stemming, stemming material), επιγόμωση (ramming, stemming). (various references) | |
Hebrew | בטיש" (kick, knock). (various references) | |
Hungarian | fojtóanyag. (various references) | |
Italian | pilonatura (punning, rodding), mazzapicchiatura (punning, rodding), materiale di intasamento (stemming, stemming material), intasamento o borraggio delle mine (stemming), borraggio (stemming, stemming material). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | ampingtay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | material de atacamento (stemming, stemming material), compactação do atacamento (packing), atacamento (stemming), apiloamento (punning, rodding). (various references) | |
Spanish | retacado (calking, caulking, hammering, stemming, stemming material), relleno (back filling, backfill, back-filling, blinding, construction of an embankment, cushion, embankment, fill, fill embankment, filled, filler, filling, filling material, filling paste, filling up, forming of an embankment, packing, pad, padded, padding, replacement, replenishment, stemming, stowage, stowed goaf, stowing, stowing material, stuffing, supplement, topping up, topping(California), wadding), material de relleno (fill, fill material, filling, filling material, padding, stemming, stemming material), empaquetadura (gasket, gland, joint, packing, stemming, stemming material), consolidado (consolidated, punning, rodding), apisonado (compaction, packing, punning, rodding, rolling, stamp charging, stamped charging, tractor rolling). (various references) | |
Swedish | fårfotsvält (sheep foot roller, sheep-foot tamping roller, sheep's foot roller, sheeps-foot roller). (various references) | |
Vietnamese | sự nhét. (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words ending with "TAMPING": prestamping, restamping, stamping. (additional references) | |
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"TAMPING" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: amping, Pampanga, talping, tamming, terping, Tomming, Tompion. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "TAMPING" (pronounced ta"mping) |
| 6 | t a" m p i ng | stamping. |
| 5 | -a" m p i ng | camping, clamping, cramping, damping, lamping, ramping, revamping, tramping. |
| 4 | -m p i ng | antidumping, bumping, chomping, clumping, crimping, dumping, jumping, limping, lumping, pimping, pumping, romping, scrimping, skimping, slumping, stomping, stumping, swamping, thumping. |
| 3 | -p i ng | aping, backslapping, beeping, bleeping, bookkeeping, burping, capping, carping, Chipping, chirping, chopping, clapping, clipping, coping, copping, creeping, cropping, developing, dipping, draping, dripping, drooping, dropping, eavesdropping, enveloping, equipping, escaping, flapping, flipping, flopping, galloping, gaping, gasping, gossiping, grasping, griping, gripping, groping, grouping, gulping, handicapping, harping, heaping, helping, hoping, hopping, housekeeping, hyping, keeping, kidnaping, kidnapping, landscaping, lapping, leaping, lopping, mapping, moping, mopping, napping, nipping, outstripping, overlapping, overstepping, peacekeeping, peeping, piping, popping, prepping, propping, pulping, raping, rapping, reaping, recapping, recouping, regrouping, reshaping, ripping, roping, safekeeping, sapping, scalping, scooping, scoping, scraping, scrapping, seeping, shaping, shipping, shopping, sidestepping, sipping, skipping, slapping, sleeping, slipping, sloping, snapping, sniping, snooping, sopping, stepping, stereotyping, stooping, stopping, strapping, stripping, swapping, sweeping, swiping, swooping, taping, tapping, tipping, topping, trapping, tripping, trooping, typing, unwrapping, upping, usurping, videotaping, walloping, Wapping, warping, weeping, whipping, whooping, whopping, wiping, Wiretapping, worshipping, wrapping, zapping, zipping. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-g-i-m-n-p-t" | |
-1 letter: mating, pitman, taming, taping. | |
-2 letters: aping, gamin, giant, inapt, matin, paint, patin, pinta. | |
-3 letters: agin, amin, anti, gain, gait, gamp, gimp, gnat, magi, main, mina, mint, nipa, pain, pang, pant, pian, pima, pina, ping, pint, pita, tain, tamp, tang, ting. | |
-4 letters: aim, ain, ait, ami, amp, ani, ant, apt, gam, gan, gap, gat, gin, gip, git, imp, mag, man, map, mat, mig, nag, nam, nap, nim, nip, nit, pam, pan, pat, pia, pig, pin, pit, tag, tam, tan, tap, tin, tip. | |
-5 letters: ag, ai, am, an, at, in, it, ma, mi, na, pa, pi, ta, ti. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-g-i-m-n-p-t" | |
+1 letter: stamping, tramping. | |
+2 letters: impacting, imparting, impasting, ptarmigan, tampering, tamponing, trampling. | |
+3 letters: amputating, attempting, compacting, comparting, impainting, implanting, impregnant, impregnate, misparting, permeating, pigmentary, postmating, ptarmigans, ramparting, restamping, stampeding. | |
+4 letters: antidumping, attempering, empathising, empathizing, impetrating, implicating, imprecating, impregnants, impregnated, impregnates, impregnator, meatpacking, misadapting, mispainting, mispatching, misplanting, pantomiming, platemaking, postmarking, prestamping, printmaking, prognathism. | |
+5 letters: camphorating, compensating, complicating, compurgation, emancipating, impregnating, impregnation, impregnators, manipulating, meatpackings, paramagnetic, photomapping, pigmentation, platemakings, preadmitting, premalignant, premarketing, premigration, printmakings, prognathisms, promulgating, promulgation, reattempting, reimplanting, sympathising, sympathizing, trampolining. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)54 41 4D 50 49 4E 47 |
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Morse Code (1836) (references)- .- -- .--. .. -. --. |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01010100 01000001 01001101 01010000 01001001 01001110 01000111 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)T A M P I N G |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0054 0041 004D 0050 0049 004E 0047 |
| British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)54354750434841 |
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