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Definitions: Tamp |
TampNoun1. A tool for tamping (e.g., for tamping tobacco into a pipe bowl or a charge into a drill hole etc.). Verb1. Press down tightly; "tamp the coffee grinds in the container to make espresso". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Note: Tamp \Tamp\, transitive verb. [imperative past participle Tamped; present participle verb or noun Tamping.]. (Websters 1913) |
| Domain | Definitions |
Building & Civil Engineering | To render a material compact by pressure after it has deposited or disturbed. Source: European Union. (references) |
Mining | A. To tightly pack a drilled hole with moist, loose material after the charge has been placed b. To fill a charged shothole with clay or other stemming material to confine the force of the explosion. See also:stemming c. To ram or pound down ballast on a railway track, or road metal. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Synonyms: TampSynonyms: tamper (n), pack (v), tamp down (v). (additional references) |
Crosswords: Tamp |
| English words defined with "tamp": tamp down, Tamped, Tamping. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "tamp": blasting needle ♦ DUMPER-BAILER OPERATOR ♦ form tamper, FORM-TAMPER OPERATOR, form-tamping-machine operator ♦ MAINTENANCE WORKER, MUNICIPAL ♦ POWDER LOADER ♦ tamping pole, tamping-machine operator, road forms, TRACER-BULLET-CHARGING-MACHINE OPERATOR. (references) |
| Etymologies containing "tamp": tampion. (references) |
| Non-English Usage: "Tamp" is also a word in the following language with the English translation in parentheses. Swedish (fag end). |
| "Tamp" is generally used as a lexical verb (base form) -- approximately 54.55% of the time. "Tamp" is used about 11 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 (base form) | 54.55% | 6 | 143,867 |
| Lexical Verb (infinitive) | 36.36% | 4 | 175,879 |
| Unclassified Items | 9.09% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 11 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expressions using "tamp": tamp down ♦ tamp in. 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 |
tamp | 25 |
tamp tribune | 4 |
tamp bay devil ray | 3 |
stamp tamp | 2 |
bone inflatable kyphx tamp | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "tamp"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | rras (Bury, clap, clench, cram, crib, fling, huddle, jam, pop, ram, stuff, thrust, vice), ngjesh (clench, compact, compress, gird on the sword, huddle, jam, jostle, masticate, mix, pack, ram down, squeeze). (various references) | |
Arabic | كوم (accumulate, amass, bank, heap, heap up, hill up, jam, lumber, pile, pile up, rake, scrape, stack, stick, tumble), حشا (beef up, cake, cram, jam, load, pack, pad, poke, quilt, ram, stuff, tampon, wad), سد (bar, barrage, block, bung, clog, close, close up, congest, dam, dike, dyke, embankment, fill, floodgate, foul, lock, mure, obturate, obturation, occlude, occlusion, pack, plug, seal, shut, stem, stop, stop up, stuff, wad, weir), دك (bench, demolish, demolition, plaster, unbuild). (various references) | |
Bulgarian | трамбовам (beetle, ram), натъпквам (bulge, bung, compress, cram, crush, fill in, imbed, impact, jam, lumber, pack, pack in, pump in, ram, stuff). (various references) | |
Chinese | 紧 (Tamped). (various references) | |
Danish | stampe jorden (to tamp the soil), stampe (to pun, to ram, to tamp), støde (push, thrust, to butt, to pun, to ram, to tamp), ramme (baseboard, bent, frame, framework, framing, outline, portal, raster, to pun, to ram, to tamp, tool framework, tubular support stays). (various references) | |
Dutch | heien. (various references) | |
Farsi | سوراخی راباشن وغیره پرکردن , باضربات متوالی بالایاپاءین راندن . (various references) | |
Finnish | survoa (crush, pound, to pun, to ram, to tamp), sulloa (bundle, cram, pack, stuff, to pun, to ram, to tamp). (various references) | |
French | tasser, damer (to tamp). (various references) | |
German | rammen (drive against, driving, foul, ram, to drive against, to pun, to ram, to tamp), einrammen (batter down, batter in, ram down, ram in). (various references) | |
Greek | στουπώνω (wad), πατικώνω (compress), εμπήγω (impact, infix, jab, pitch, ram, thrust). (various references) | |
Hebrew | ל"חוס (compress, condense, cram, crowd, jam, stuff, supercharge, wedge), לבטש. (various references) | |
Hungarian | ledöngöl (to ram down, to tamp). (various references) | |
Indonesian | memadatkan (compress, solidify). (various references) | |
Italian | pigiare (crush, jam, pack, press, push, ram, rush, tread). (various references) | |
Manx | plooghey (asphyxia, asthma, choke, choking, congest, congestion, cushion, fugginess, glut, inundate, inundation, muffle, restrain, smother, smothering, stifle, suffocate, suffocation). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | amptay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | socar (box, buffet, crush, cuff, fist, pound, soak, sock, thump), pisar (bruise, chunk, contuse, crush, meal, override, pound, ram, step, step on, trample, trample on, tread), embuchar, carregar (bear, burden, carry, carrying, charge, convey, download, freight, heap, Lade, load, shot, Stoke, tote, wear), apertar (belay, belt, brace, clamp, clamping, clasp, clip, clutch, constrain, constrict, grasp, grip, jam, mount, narrow, nip, oppress, pinch, press, ram, run, screw, set, set up, squeeze, tighten, to fasten, wring). (various references) | |
Russian | набивать (cram, wad). (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | tamponirati, začepiti (block, clog, cork, gag, obturate, occlude, plug). (various references) | |
Spanish | atacar (arraign, assail, assault, attack, bite, charge, come at, commit aggression, drive, engage, get at, go for, go in, gun, light into, pitch into, plough into, prey, raid, sail into, set about, set on, set upon, sick, slash, strike, stuff, tackle, tamp down, tamp in, walk in), apisonar (ram, roll, tamp down, tamp in), afirmar (affirm, assert, asseverate, attach, aver, avouch, belay, clamp, contend, declare, fasten, fortify, insure, lay down, predicate, say, tack down, tamp down, tamp in). (various references) | |
Swedish | packa till. (various references) | |
Thai | อุ", ตอก (hammer, ram). (various references) | |
Turkish | bastırıp sıkıştırmak, çamurla tıkamak. (various references) | |
Ukranian | трамбувати (beetle, ram), набивати. (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | calca, calcabant, calcabatur, calcabis, calcabit, calcabitis, calcabitur, calcabunt, calcandi, calcant, calcantes, calcantibus, calcantium, calcare, calcat, calcator, calcatur, calcatus, calcaverit, calcaverunt, calcavi, calcavit, calces, calcet. (various references) |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "tamp": tampala, tampalas, tampan, tampans, tamped, tamper, tampered, tamperer, tamperers, tampering, tamperproof, tampers, tamping, tampion, tampions, tampon, tamponed, tamponing, tampons, tamps. (additional references) | |
Words ending with "tamp": prestamp, restamp, stamp. (additional references) | |
Words containing "tamp": postamputation, prestamped, prestamping, prestamps, restamped, restamping, restamps, stamped, stampede, stampeded, stampeder, stampeders, stampedes, stampeding, stamper, stampers, stamping, stampless, stamps. (additional references) | |
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"Tamp" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: atemp, taam, taip, tamb, tami, tammi, Tamo, Tampopo, tamt, tamu, tao, tapf, taph, taum, taup, tawm, tbam, timj, timop, timp, tmp, tpamp, tqm, tsampo, tumpy, tvam, tzampa. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "tamp" (pronounced ta"mp) |
| 4 | t a" m p | stamp. |
| 3 | -a" m p | amp, camp, champ, clamp, cramp, damp, decamp, encamp, Gamp, lamp, ramp, revamp, samp, tramp, unclamp, vamp. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-m-p-t" | |
-1 letter: amp, apt, map, mat, pam, pat, tam, tap. | |
-2 letters: am, at, ma, pa, ta. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-m-p-t" | |
+1 letter: stamp, tamps, tramp. | |
+2 letters: armpit, impact, impart, metepa, optima, pitman, potman, stamps, tampan, tamped, tamper, tampon, tramps, tympan. | |
+3 letters: amplest, amputee, apomict, apothem, armpits, attempt, baptism, compact, compart, crampit, dampest, empathy, impacts, impaint, imparts, impaste, impasto, implant, maintop, mantrap, marplot, matchup, metepas, metopae, mispart, optimal, palmate, palmist, pantoum, pastime, patamar, payment, phantom, pitmans, plumate, pomatum, postman, potamic, primate, ptomain, putamen, rampant, rampart, restamp, stamped, stamper, tampala, tampans, tampers, tamping, tampion, tampons, tapetum, taproom, tempera, templar, tempura, timpana, timpani, timpano, topmast, tramped, tramper, trample, tympana, tympani, tympano, tympans, tympany. | |
+4 letters: amputate, amputees, apomicts, apothegm, apothems, apterium, atropism, attemper, attempts, baptisms, campiest, campsite, compacts, comparts, compleat, copemate, crampits, diplomat, dumpcart, empathic, emphatic, helpmate, hepatoma, impacted, impacter, impactor, impaints, imparity, imparted, imparter, impasted, impastes, impastos, implants, lamppost, lipomata, maintops, malapert, mantraps, marplots, matchups, mateship, mercapto, metaphor, misadapt, mispaint, misparts, mispatch, misplant, myopathy, palmated, palmette, palmetto, palmiest, palmists, palmitin, pamphlet, pantoums, parament, pastimes, pastrami, pastromi, patagium, patamars, pattamar, pavement, payments, permeant, permeate, phantasm, phantoms, photomap, pitchman, pivotman, plastrum, platform, platinum, playmate, playtime, pointman, polymath, pomatums, postgame, postmark, preadmit, prestamp, primatal, primates, protamin, psalmist, psammite, ptomaine, ptomains, ptyalism, putamina, ramparts, restamps, shipmate, stampede, stampers, stamping, stepdame, stumpage, sympathy, sympatry, taillamp, tampalas, tampered, tamperer, tampions, tamponed, tapeworm, taprooms, temperas, templars, template, temporal, tempuras, teraphim, timpanum, topmasts, trampers, tramping, trampish, trampled, trampler, tramples, tympanal, tympanic, tympanum, upmarket, upstream. | |
+5 letters: ambrotype, ametropia, ametropic, amplitude, amputated, amputates, apartment, apomictic, apothegms, aspartame, asphaltum, assumpsit, asymptote, atemporal, atropisms, attempers, attempted, baptismal, campcraft, campsites, capitulum, cataplasm, champerty, compacted, compacter, compactly, compactor, comparted, complaint, compliant, copayment, copemates, cryptogam, cytoplasm, diplomata, diplomate, diplomats, dumpcarts, eclamptic, ectoplasm, empathies, empathise, empathize, empyemata, helpmates, hepatomas, homeopath, impacters, impacting, impaction, impactive, impactors, impainted, imparters, impartial, imparting, impasting, impastoed, impatiens, impatient, imperator, impetrate, implanted, implanter, implicate, important, imprecate, imputable, lamplight, lampposts, lymphatic, malaperts, mateships, mercaptan, metacarpi, metaphase, metaphors, misadapts, mispaints, misparted, misplants, mousetrap, mouthpart, multipage, multipart, multipath, myopathic, nameplate, nonimpact, optimally, palmately, palmation, palmettes, palmettos, palmistry, palmitate, palmitins, pamphlets, panmictic, pantheism, pantomime, pantryman, pantrymen, paramenta, paraments, parameter, paramount, parchment, pastramis, pastromis, patrimony, patrolman, patrolmen, pattamars, pavements, paymaster, peacetime, pegmatite, pentagram, penultima, permanent, permeated, permeates, phantasma, phantasms, photogram, photomaps, photomask, pictogram, placement, plantsman, plantsmen, plasmatic, plastrums, platforms, platinums, playmates, playtimes, pneumatic, polymaths, polymathy, postmarks, potassium, practicum, pragmatic, preadmits, preatomic, preformat, premarket, premature, prestamps, primality, primatals, primatial, prismatic, privatism, prosomata, prostomia, protamine, protamins, protonema, proximate, psalmists, psammites, ptarmigan, ptomaines, ptyalisms, pulmonate, rampantly, ramparted, reattempt, rebaptism, reimplant, repayment, restamped, septarium, shipmates, simpatico, spearmint, spermatia, spermatic, spermatid, sportsman, spymaster, stampeded, stampeder, stampedes, stampless, steamship, stepdames, stumpages, sumptuary, swampiest, sympathin, sympatric, sympetaly, taillamps, tamperers, tampering, tamponing, tapeworms, taphonomy, temperate, templates, temporals, temporary, temptable, timpanist, timpanums, tramplers, trampling, trapezium, treponema, triumphal, tympanies, tympanist, tympanums. | |
| 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. | |
Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)54 61 6D 70 |
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Morse Code (1836) (references)- .- -- .--. |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01010100 01100001 01101101 01110000 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)T a m p |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0054 0061 006D 0070 |
| 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)54677982 |
| 1. Definition 2. Synonyms 3. Crosswords 4. Usage Frequency | 5. Expressions 6. Expressions: Internet 7. Translations: Modern 8. Translations: Ancient | 9. Derivations 10. Rhymes 11. Anagrams 12. Orthography | 13. Bibliography |
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