tamper
A person or thing that tampsA person or thing that tamps.: A tool used to tamp something down, such as tobacco in a pipe.
» This recording has been tampered with.
Diese Aufnahme ist verfälscht worden. — Yorwba
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3 sensesA person or thing that tamps.
A tool used to tamp something down, such as tobacco in a pipe.
Pfeifenstopfer, Tamper, Stampfer
пестpest
a tool for tamping (e.g., for tamping tobacco into a pipe bowl or a charge into a drill hole etc.)
A railway vehicle used to tamp down ballast.
Stopfmaschine, Gleisstopfmaschine, Stampfer
An envelope of neutron-reflecting material in a nuclear weapon, used to delay the expansion of the reacting material and thus produce a longer-lasting and more energetic explosion.
Examples
18 sentencesThis recording has been tampered with.
deDiese Aufnahme ist verfälscht worden. — Yorwba
Be careful not to tamper with it.
ruСмотри не испорти его. — sharptoothed
The documents were tampered with.
ruДокументы были подделаны. — las
deDie Unterlagen sind manipuliert worden. — Yorwba
Don't tamper with anything else.
I won't tamper with it.
ruЯ не буду в это вмешиваться. — sharptoothed
Translations
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Origin
From tamp + -er.From tamp + -er.
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Forms
plural: tampersSynonyms
4 synonyms- a tool for tamping (e.g., for tamping tobacco into a pipe bowl or a charge into a drill hole etc.):tamptamping bar