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Definition: Tampering |
TamperingNoun1. The act of altering something secretly or improperly. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "tampering" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1776. (references) |
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Environment | Adjusting, negating, or removing pollution control equipment on a motor vehicle. Technical Assistance Grant (TAG): As part of the Superfund program, Technical Assistance Grants of up to $50,000 are provided to citizens' groups to obtain assistance in interpreting information related to clean-ups at Superfund sites or those proposed for the National Priorities List. Grants are used by such groups to hire technical advisors to help them understand the site-related technical information for the duration of response activities. Technical-Grade Active Ingredient (TGA): A pesticide chemical in pure form as it is manufactured prior to being formulated into an end-use product (e.g. wettable powders, granules, emulsifiable concentrates). Registered manufactured products composed of such chemicals are known as Technical Grade Products. Technical-Grade Active Ingredient (TGA): A pesticide chemical in pure form as it is manufactured prior to being formulated into an end-use product (e.g. wettable powders, granules, emulsifiable concentrates). Registered manufactured products composed of such chemicals are known as Technical Grade Products. (references) |
Public Administration | Similar improvements have been achieved to facilitate removing restraining or locking devices, designed to prevent -- or accidental operation. Source: European Union. (references) |
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Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Tampering."
Synonym: TamperingSynonym: meddling (n). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Activity | Officiousness; dabbling, meddling; interference, interposition, intermeddling; tampering with, intrigue. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Tampering |
| Specialty definitions using "tampering": billing supervisor ♦ Enhanced Inspection and Maintenance ♦ GAS-METER CHECKER ♦ meter-and-service-line inspector ♦ OPENER-VERIFIER-PACKER, CUSTOMS ♦ STORAGE-FACILITY RENTAL CLERK, SUPERVISOR, ACCOUNTS RECEIVABLE. (references) |
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| Thumbnail | Description & Credit |  | If you take it, take it seriously. : Tips Against Tampering.Credit: National Library of Medicine. |
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Business | While Italians, Spaniards, and Portuguese are more supportive of genetically modified agriculture, Germany and the rest of Europe generally eschew gene-based tampering with foodstuffs. (references) | |
Economic History | Guinea | Legislative and municipal elections were held in 1995. Conte's ruling PUP party won 76 of 114 seats in the National Assembly, amid opposition claims of irregularities and government tampering. (references) |
Lebanon | Lebanon's electricity company, Electricité du Liban (EDL), faces major challenges: illegal connections to the grid exceed 300,000, meter tampering, technical and non-technical losses total 47 percent of production, and completion of a 220 kV transmission network before the end of 2001. EDL plans to increase power production to 2,700 MW by end 2006 in order to meet increasing demand. (references) | |
Human Rights | Guinea | Others accused the prosecution of witness tampering, intimidation, and outright fraud. (references) |
Political Rights | Bolivia | Only one instance of tampering with ballots was detected. (references) |
Malaysia | Under the electoral law, unsuccessful candidates may appeal election results to special election courts in instances of alleged fraud, vote tampering, or other infractions of electoral rules. (references) | |
Lebanon | There was some improvement in the parliamentary elections held in August and September 2000, such as fewer incidents of voter fraud and tampering with ballots than in the previous election; however, the electoral process was flawed with serious shortcomings. (references) | |
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| "Tampering" is generally used as a lexical verb (-ing form) -- approximately 88.24% of the time. "Tampering" is used about 85 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) | 88.24% | 75 | 38,535 |
| Noun (singular) | 10.59% | 9 | 117,287 |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 1.18% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 85 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expression using "tampering": tampering with. Additional references. | |
| Hypenated Usage | |
Ending with "tampering": ball-tampering. | |
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| 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 |
evidence tampering | 109 |
intrusion tampering | 60 |
mail tampering | 14 |
tampering | 12 |
federal mail tampering | 8 |
tampering tylenol | 7 |
odometer tampering | 7 |
nature tampering | 5 |
witness tampering | 5 |
box mail tampering | 3 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "tampering"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Chinese | 窜" (Tampered). (various references) | |
Dutch | vervalsing van maten en gewichten (tampering with weights and measures). (various references) | |
Finnish | mitan ja painon väärentäminen (tampering with weights and measures). (various references) | |
French | manoeuvres abusives. (various references) | |
German | sich zu schffen machend an, einmischend (interfering, meddling). (various references) | |
Italian | tampering. (various references) | |
Korean | 참견. (various references) | |
Pig Latin | amperingtay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | falsificação dos pesos e medidas (tampering with weights and measures). (various references) | |
Russian | подделывать подделка (hackering, shamming). (various references) | |
Swedish | kladdande. (various references) | |
Vietnamese | sự xáo trộn (disarray), sự lục lọi (rummage), sự l m lộn xộn sự mua chuộc. (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "tampering" (pronounced ta"mpering) |
| 6 | -a" m p er i ng | hampering, pampering, scampering. |
| 5 | -m p er i ng | tempering, whimpering. |
| 4 | -p er i ng | diapering, papering, peppering, prospering, tapering, wallpapering, whispering, zippering. |
| 3 | -er i ng | administering, altering, anchoring, angering, answering, auguring, backfiring, badgering, bantering, bartering, battering, belaboring, beleaguering, bettering, bewildering, bickering, blistering, blundering, blustering, bolstering, bordering, bothering, brokering, butchering, capturing, catering, censoring, centering, chartering, chattering, clamoring, clobbering, clustering, cluttering, coloring, configuring, conjuring, conquering, considering, cornering, countering, covering, cowering, culturing, deciphering, delivering, desiring, devouring, dickering, differing, discovering, disfavoring, disfiguring, dismembering, dithering, doctoring, doddering, embroidering, empowering, encountering, endangering, endeavoring, entering, factoring, faltering, fathering, favoring, feathering, featuring, festering, figuring, filibustering, filtering, fingering, flattering, flavoring, flickering, floundering, flowering, fluttering, fostering, foundering, fracturing, frittering, furthering, garnering, gathering, gerrymandering, gesturing, glimmering, glittering, glowering, grandfathering, guttering, hammering, hankering, harboring, hectoring, hindering, hollering, honoring, hovering, hungering, hunkering, injuring, inquiring, laboring, laundering, lawyering, layering, lecturing, lettering, levering, lingering, littering, loitering, lowering, lumbering, majoring, maneuvering, manufacturing, massacring, mastering, maundering, meandering, measuring, mentoring, metering, minoring, mirroring, mitering, mongering, monitoring, mothering, motoring, murdering, murmuring, mustering, muttering, nattering, neighboring, neutering, nonmanufacturing, numbering, nurturing, offering, ordering, outnumbering, pandering, partnering, perjuring, pestering, petering, philandering, picturing, pilfering, plastering, plundering, pondering, posturing, powdering, powering, pressuring, proffering, puncturing, puttering, quivering, recapturing, reconsidering, recovering, rediscovering, reentering, registering, rejiggering, remembering, rendering, reoffering, reordering, requiring, restructuring, rewiring, rupturing, savoring, scattering, scouring, sculpturing, sequestering, severing, shattering, sheltering, shimmering, shivering, shouldering, showering, shuddering, shuttering, simmering, slaughtering, slithering, slobbering, slumbering, smattering, smoldering, smothering, snickering, sobering, soldering, soldiering, souring, spattering, spiering, splintering, sponsoring, sputtering, squandering, staggering, structuring, stuttering, suffering, surrendering, swaggering, sweltering, tailoring, teetering, tendering, thundering, tinkering, torturing, tottering, towering, transpiring, triggering, tutoring, uncovering, unflattering, unwavering, ushering, uttering, venturing, wagering, wandering, warmongering, watering, wavering, weathering, withering, wondering, Wuthering. |
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-e-g-i-m-n-p-r-t" | |
-1 letter: emigrant, remating, retaping, tapering, tramping. | |
-2 letters: epigram, garment, germina, granite, gratine, gripman, gripmen, impregn, ingrate, mangier, margent, marting, metring, migrant, migrate, minaret, mintage, painter, parting, perming, pertain, pigment, prating, primage, primate, ragtime, raiment, ramping, reaming, reaping, repaint, tamping, tangier, teaming, tearing, tegmina, temping, terming, trepang. | |
-3 letters: aigret, airmen, argent, arming, armpit, arpent, earing, eating, engirt, engram, enigma, enrapt, entrap, etamin, gainer, gaiter, gamier, gamine, garnet, german, gratin, imager, imaret, impart, ingate, inmate, magnet, magpie, maigre, manger, margin, marine, marten, martin, mating, meting, minter, mirage, panier, pantie, parent, parget, paring, patine, permit, pineta, pinger, pirate, pitman, pitmen, preman, pterin, ragmen, rapine, raping, ratine, rating, reagin, regain, regina, remain, remint, retain, retina, tamein, taming, tamper, taping, taring, trepan, triage. | |
-4 letters: agent, aimer, ament, amine, anger, anime, antre, aping, apter, armet, arpen, atrip, entia, gamer, gamin, gaper, garni, genip, giant, grain, gramp, grant, grape, grate, great, grime, gripe, gript, image, inapt, inarm, inept, inert, inter, irate, mange, marge, mater, matin, meant, menta, merit, minae, miner, miter, mitre, namer, niter, nitre, pager, paint, parge, paten, pater, patin, peart, pieta, pinta, prang, prate, prima, prime, print, ramen, ramet, ramie, range, regma, regna, reign, reman, remap, remit, renig, repin, retag, retia, riant, ripen, tamer, taper, tapir, targe, tempi, tenia, terai, terga, tiger, timer, tinea, tinge, tragi, train, tramp, trine, tripe. | |
-5 letters: ager, agin, airn, airt, amen, amie, amin, amir, ante, anti, aper, earn, emir, emit, etna, gaen, gain, gait, game, gamp, gane, gape, gate, gear, gent, germ, geta, gien, gimp, girn, girt, gnar, gnat, gram, gran, grat, grim, grin, grip, grit, item, mage, magi, main, mair, mane, mare, mart, mate, mean, meat, meta, mien, mina, mine, mint, mire, mite, name, nape, neap, near, neat, nema, nipa, nite, page, pain, pair, pane, pang, pant, pare, part, pate, peag, pean, pear, peat, pein, pent, peri, perm, pert, pian, pier, pima, pina, pine, ping, pint, pirn, pita, pram, prat, prig, prim, rage, ragi, rain, rami, ramp, rang, rani, rant, rape, rapt, rate, ream, reap, rein, rent, rime, ring, ripe, rite, tain, tame, tamp, tang, tape, tare, tarn, tarp, team, tear, temp, tepa, term, tern, tier, time, tine, ting, tire, tram, trap, trig, trim, trip. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-e-g-i-m-n-p-r-t" | |
+1 letter: impregnant, impregnate, permeating, pigmentary, restamping. | |
+2 letters: attempering, impetrating, imprecating, impregnants, impregnated, impregnates, impregnator, prestamping. | |
+3 letters: impregnating, impregnation, impregnators, paramagnetic, preadmitting, premalignant, premarketing, premigration, reattempting, reimplanting. | |
+4 letters: cinematograph, disparagement, impersonating, impregnations, mousetrapping, paramagnetism, parametrizing, perambulating, predominating, preformatting, premarketings, premeditating, prenominating, slipstreaming, spermatogenic, spermatogonia, temporalizing. | |
+5 letters: cinematographs, cinematography, compartmenting, disparagements, impregnability, intercomparing, magnetospheric, metamorphosing, pamphleteering, paramagnetisms, parameterizing, preformulating, spermatogonial, spermatogonium. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)54 61 6D 70 65 72 69 6E 67 |
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| American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)
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| Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)
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| Braille (1829, in France) (references)
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Morse Code (1836) (references)- .- -- .--. . .-. .. -. --. |
| Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01010100 01100001 01101101 01110000 01100101 01110010 01101001 01101110 01100111 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)T a m p e r i n g |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0054 0061 006D 0070 0065 0072 0069 006E 0067 |
| 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)546779827184758073 |
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