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Definition: Tamper |
TamperNoun1. A tool for tamping (e.g., for tamping tobacco into a pipe bowl or a charge into a drill hole etc.). Verb1. Fool or play around with; "Someone tampered with the documents on my desk". 2. Intrude in other people's affairs or business; interfere unwantedly; "Don't meddle in my affairs!". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "tamper" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1588. (references) |
| Domain | Definition |
Building & Civil Engineering | A mass, usually of metal, whereby concrete is stamped by hand or machine to compact it. Source: European Union. (references) |
Mining | A non-metallic rod used to push explosive cartidges into position in a shothole and insert the stemming. Source: European Union. (references) |
| A. In bituminous coal mining, one who fills drill holes in which explosives have been charged, by machine driller or miner, with clay or some other tamping material, using a tamping bar. Also called shot tamper b. An implement for tamping or compacting material; a tamping iron or tamping bar. Sometimes made of wood, copper, or iron with a copper tip. See also:tamping bar c. One who tamps d. A tool for compacting soil in spots not accessible to roller. (references) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Synonyms: TamperSynonyms: tamp (n), meddle (v), monkey (v). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Activity | Tamper with, meddle, moil; intermeddle, interfere, interpose; obtrude; poke one's nose in, thrust one's nose in. |
Change | Verb: change, alter, vary, wax and wane; modulate, diversify, qualify, tamper with; turn, shift, veer, tack, chop, shuffle, swerve, warp, deviate, turn aside, evert, intervert; pass to, take a turn, turn the corner, resume. |
Deterioration | Deteriorate; weaken; put back, set back; taint, infect, contaminate, poison, empoison, envenom, canker, corrupt, exulcerate, pollute, vitiate, inquinate; debase, embase; denaturalize, denature, leaven; deflower, debauch, defile, deprave, degrade; ulcerate; stain; (dirt); discolor; alloy, adulterate, sophisticate, tamper with, prejudice. |
Motive | Tamper with, bribe, suborn, grease the palm, bait with a silver hook, gild the pill, make things pleasant, put a sop into the pan, throw a sop to, bait the hook. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Tamper |
| English words defined with "tamper": disturb ♦ self-destroy, self-destruct ♦ Tampered, touch, Trinkle. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "tamper": CONCRETE-STONE FINISHER ♦ FOREST WORKER ♦ LAUNDRY-TUB MAKER ♦ PITCH WORKER ♦ ROTARY-CUTTER OPERATOR, RUBBER-MILL OPERATOR ♦ SEWER-LINE REPAIRER ♦ TRAY-CASTING-MACHINE OPERATOR. (references) |
| Etymologies containing "tamper": Trinkle. (references) |
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| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Economic History | Pakistan | The GOP has attempted to reverse this trend by promising not to tamper with foreign currency accounts. (references) |
Human Rights | Italy | In exceptional circumstances--usually in cases of organized crime figures--where there is danger that attorneys may attempt to tamper with evidence, the investigating judge may take up to 5 days to interrogate the accused before the accused is allowed to contact an attorney. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| Speaker | Term | Phrase(s) |
George Washington | 1789-1797 | How many opportunities do they afford to tamper with domestic factions, to practice the arts of seduction, to mislead public opinion, to influence or awe the public councils! |
George Bush | 1989-1993 | I will not tamper with Social Security but I would put real caps on the growth of uncontrolled spending. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
| "Tamper" is generally used as a lexical verb (infinitive) -- approximately 77.55% of the time. "Tamper" is used about 49 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 (infinitive) | 77.55% | 38 | 55,818 |
| Lexical Verb (base form) | 14.29% | 7 | 133,076 |
| Noun (singular) | 6.12% | 3 | 202,518 |
| Noun (proper) | 2.04% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 49 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expressions using "tamper": tamper with ♦ tamper with a witness. Additional references. | |
| Hyphenated Usage | |
Beginning with "tamper": tamper-evident, tamper-proof. | |
| 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 "tamper"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | ngatërroj (bedevil, bewilder, complicate, confound, confuse, disorient, disorientate, disturb, embarrass, embrangle, embroil, entangle, entrap, flummox, fuddle, garble, hash, immerse, implicate, intricate, involve, jerk off, jumble, lug in, make a hash of cutting, make a mess of, mess about, mistake, mix up, monkey, muddle, muddy, put out, Ravel, snarl, tie up), ngacmoj (annoy, badger, banter, bedevil, bother, chaff, chip, dare, excite, guy, harass, Harrow, Harry, irritate, jolly, molest, monkey, nag, nettle, provoke, rag, rally, ruffle, tease), fut duart. (various references) | |
Arabic | هرب (abscond, contraband, drive away, elope, escape, fled, flee, fleeing, fly, get away, get out of, powder, put to flight, run away, run first, run from smb., run off, shun, slope, smuggle, take flight, take to one's heels, traffic, turn tail), حرف (brim, brink, character, contort, corrupt, deviate, distort, diverge, edge, falsify, garble, letter, list, margin, misrepresent, particle, slant, torture, twist, wrest), تلاعب (cook, doctor, juggle, jugglery, manipulate, manipulation, monkey with, play, rig, wangle), تدخل (butt, butt in, chip, cut in, have a finger in the pie, have hand in smth., horn in, interfere, interference, intermediate, interpose, intervene, intervention, intrusion, involvement, mediation, obtrusion, push in, thrust), زور (counterfeit, forge, ghost, spectrum, tinker), رشا (bribe, buy, corrupt, grease the palm, oil, square, suborn). (various references) | |
Bulgarian | фалшифицирам (adulterate, corrupt, counterfeit, doctor, fake, falsify, garble, gerrymander, manipulate), меся се (interfere, intermeddle, meddle, obtrude), бърникам (fool around with, fumble, meddle, mess about, mess around, monkey, tinker), правя безразсъдни експерименти. (various references) | |
Chinese | 塞器. (various references) | |
Czech | pouštìt se, porušovat (contravene), plést se (horn in, interfere, intermeddle), překrucovat co, komolit co, falšovat (adulterate, doctor, fabricate, fake, falsify, forge). (various references) | |
Danish | svellestoppemaskine (mechanical tamper, packing machine, tamping machine), stamper (punner, rammer), støder (punner, rammer), sporstoppemaskine (mechanical tamper, packing machine, tamping machine), imploderende beklaedningslag (collapsing liner, projectile), brolæggerjomfru. (various references) | |
Dutch | stopmachine (mechanical tamper, packing machine, tamping machine), stampmachine (rammer, stamping machine, stamping station), stamper (pestle), imploderende liner (collapsing liner, projectile). (various references) | |
Farsi | مذاکرات پنهانی وزیرجلی داشتن , مداخله وفضولی کردن , ناخنک مردن , رشوه دادن (Bribe, Grease, Palm). (various references) | |
Finnish | survin (pestle), sorkkia (grub, poke, root), peukaloida, petkel (plunger, punner, rammer, stamper), luhistuva ulkovaippa (collapsing liner, projectile), junttakerros (collapsing liner, projectile), juntta (junta, junto, pile-driver, ram). (various references) | |
French | tube en effondrement, tripoter, trafiquer, tube en implosion, manipuler en douce, barre vibrante, bourreuse mécanique (mechanical tamper, tamping machine), chemise conductrice en implosion, dame, dameuse, demoiselle, fausser, gaine conductrice en implosion, altérer, machine bourrer (mechanical tamper, tamping machine), mettre le nez dans, pilon, pilonneuse, soudoyer, suborner, hie. (various references) | |
German | zu schaffen machen mit, stampfer (beetle, masher, plunger, pounder), einmischen (interfere, interfering, meddle). (various references) | |
Greek | κόπανος (jerk), κατακρήμνιση του σωλήνα (collapsing liner, projectile), σωλήνας σε ενδόρηξη (collapsing liner, projectile), μπουρέζα μηχανική (mechanical tamper, packing machine, tamping machine), μπουρέζα (mechanical tamper, packing machine, tamping machine), μηχανή γόμωσης (mechanical tamper, packing machine, tamping machine), παραποιώ (alter, counterfeit, falsify, manipulate, misquote, prevaricate), ανακατεύομαι (butt in, dabble in, embroil, get involved, meddle, put one's oar in, snoop into, tamper with), αλλοιώνω (adulterate, change, corrupt). (various references) | |
Hebrew | לשח" (bribe, corrupt), לזיף (fabricate, fake, falsify, forge, sham, simulate), ל"תערב (interfere, mingle, mix, supervene), ל"שתמש לרע" (abuse, misuse, take advantage of, trade on), ל'עת (paw, touch), לטפל ב- (look after, take care of, tend), בטיש. (various references) | |
Hungarian | meghamisít (doctor, fudge, maim, to adulterate, to fake, to load, to maim, to rig, to salt), elront (blew, blown, corrupt, derange, foul up, impair, make worse, Mar, mess up, misfit, rot, slip up, spoil, to addle, to ball up, to bitch, to blemish, to blow, to bollix sg up, to bollocks sg up, to boss, to botch, to cock up, to corrupt, to crap sg up, to deprave, to disorder, to flaw, to foul up, to louse up, to mess, to mess up, to muddle up, to mull, to muss, to put out of order, to rot, to scupper, to spill the beans, to spoil, to vitiate, to worsen, unmake), bányamester (boss, captain). (various references) | |
Italian | tubo implodente (collapsing liner, projectile), rincalzatrice (mechanical tamper, packing machine, tamping machine), pilonatrice (rammer), mazzapicchio (poleax, poleaxe), manomettere (manumit, tamper with), macchina rincalzatrice (mechanical tamper, packing machine, tamping machine), immischiarsi (interlope, intermeddle, meddle), guaina conduttrice in implosione (collapsing liner, projectile), costipatore (compacter, compacting machine, rammer, soil compactor). (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | 引っ掻き回す (to ransack, to rummage, to stir up, to tamper with, to throw into confusion), 弄る (to tamper with, to touch). (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | ひっかきまわす (to ransack, to rummage, to stir up, to tamper with, to throw into confusion), いじる (to tamper with, to touch). (various references) | |
Korean | 탬퍼. (various references) | |
Manx | bentyn rish (affect, concern, relative, touch, vis-a-vis, wash, wash of sea). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | ampertay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | mexer em (twiddle), intrometer-se (butt in, cut in, horn in, interfere, intermeddle, intervene, meddle, mess with, monkey, nose, obtrude, obtrude oneself, poke, tamper with, thwart), interferir (clog, cut in, interfere, intermeddle, interpose, intervene, meddle, poke, put in, step in), falsificar (adulterate, bast, counterfeit, doctor, dope, dose, fake, falsify, forge, fudge, garble, gerrymander, manipulate, pirate, vitiate, wangle), calçadeira (shoehorn, shoe-horn), bulir (fidget, monkey, stir, touch), bainha em implosão (collapsing liner, projectile), bainha colapsante (collapsing liner, projectile), apiloador mecânico (rammer), apiloador (punner, rammer), alterar ilegalmente, adulterar (adulterate, bast, betray, commit adultery, dash, debase, dilute, doctor, dope, drug, falsify, fill, garble, load, misinterpret, sophisticate, spoil, weaken). (various references) | |
Romanian | meşteri (arrange, fix, work). (various references) | |
Russian | трогать (affect, finger, handle, move, palm, paw, reach, touch), вмешиваться (butt in, come between, cut in, horn in, intermeddle, interpose, interrupt, intervene, meddle, monkey), портить (boggle, contaminate, corrupt, do damage, mung, munge, queer, spoil, thrash, vitiate, waste, welk), подделывать (counterfeit, doctor, fabricate, fake, forge, tin). (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | pokvariti (adulterate, blemish, corrupt, damage, deteriorate, gum up, mar, queer, sophisticate, spoil, strip, taint), podmititi (bribe, get to, pay off, suborn), čačkati (monkey, pick). (various references) | |
Spanish | manosear (finger, fumble, handle, lark about, lark around, paw, pull about, rumple, thumb, tinker, touch up). (various references) | |
Swedish | manipulera (manipulate). (various references) | |
Thai | โน้มน้าว (cajole), ยุ่ง (butt in, tied up), คนหรือสิ่งที่ใช้ตอก. (various references) | |
Turkish | rüşvetle kandırmak (suborn, tamper with), kurcalamak (drag up, go round, irritate, monkey, monkey with, poke, poke up, possess, rake up, tamper with, warm up), karışmak (amalgamate, be confused, be mixed up, blend, butt in, combine, commingle, commix, concern, concern oneself, cut in, cut into, get mixed, have one's hand in, interfere, interfuse, interlace, intermeddle, intervene, jumble, jumble together, jumble up, meddle, meld, merge, mingle, mix, mix in, pick at, pick over, poke one's nose into, put one's nose into, put one's oar in, slip in, step in, strike in, take up, thicken, thrust one's nose in, thrust one's nose into, thrust oneself in, welter, whirl). (various references) | |
Ukrainian | трамбівка (beetle, punner, ram, rammer), торкати (finger, palp), несерйозно займатися, підробляти (adulterate, counterfeit, fake, falsify, feign, forge, imitate, mimic). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "tamper": tampered, tamperer, tamperers, tampering, tamperproof, tampers. (additional references) | |
Words ending with "tamper": stamper. (additional references) | |
Words containing "tamper": stampers. (additional references) | |
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"Tamper" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Amper, Ramper, shamper, tamber, tampex, tapear, tasper, teamper, tempeh, tempei, tempery, templer, tempor, timper, Tompe, tzampa. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "tamper" (pronounced ta"mper) |
| 5 | t a" m p er | Stamper. |
| 4 | -a" m p er | camper, damper, hamper, pamper, scamper. |
| 3 | -m p er | dumper, bumper, distemper, jumper, lumper, mumper, shrimper, simper, swamper, temper, Thumper, whimper. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-e-m-p-r-t" | |
-1 letter: apter, armet, mater, pater, peart, prate, ramet, remap, tamer, taper, tramp. | |
-2 letters: aper, mare, mart, mate, meat, meta, pare, part, pate, pear, peat, perm, pert, pram, prat, ramp, rape, rapt, rate, ream, reap, tame, tamp, tape, tare, tarp, team, tear, temp, tepa, term, tram, trap. | |
-3 letters: amp, ape, apt, are, arm, art, ate. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-e-m-p-r-t" | |
+1 letter: primate, restamp, stamper, tampers, tempera, templar, tempura, tramped, tramper, trample. | |
+2 letters: apterium, attemper, impacter, imparted, imparter, malapert, mercapto, metaphor, parament, permeant, permeate, preadmit, prestamp, primates, restamps, stampers, tampered, tamperer, tapeworm, temperas, templars, temporal, tempuras, teraphim, trampers, trampled, trampler, tramples, upmarket, upstream. | |
+3 letters: ambrotype, ametropia, ametropic, apartment, aspartame, atemporal, attempers, champerty, compacter, comparted, impacters, imparters, imperator, impetrate, implanter, imprecate, malaperts, mercaptan, metacarpi, metaphors, misparted, mousetrap, pantrymen, paramenta, paraments, parameter, parchment, patrolmen, paymaster, pentagram, permanent, permeated, permeates, preadmits, preatomic, preformat, premarket, premature, prestamps, protamine, protonema, proximate, ramparted, reattempt, rebaptism, reimplant, repayment, restamped, septarium, spearmint, spermatia, spermatic, spermatid, spymaster, stampeder, tamperers, tampering, tapeworms, temperate, temporals, temporary, tramplers, trapezium, treponema. | |
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