Meaning

3 senses
  1. A 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.)

  2. A railway vehicle used to tamp down ballast.

    Stopfmaschine, Gleisstopfmaschine, Stampfer

  3. 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 sentences
  1. This recording has been tampered with.

    deDiese Aufnahme ist verfälscht worden. — Yorwba

  2. Be careful not to tamper with it.

    ruСмотри не испорти его. — sharptoothed

  3. The documents were tampered with.

    ruДокументы были подделаны. — las

    deDie Unterlagen sind manipuliert worden. — Yorwba

  4. Don't tamper with anything else.

  5. I won't tamper with it.

    ruЯ не буду в это вмешиваться. — sharptoothed

Translations

5 languages
Русский
By meaning 1
tool:
Deutsch
By meaning 2
tool:
tamping vehicle:

Origin

From tamp + -er.

From tamp + -er.

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Forms

plural: tampers
Singulartamper
Pluraltampers

regular

Synonyms

4 synonyms
tamping machineballast tamper
Close in meaning
  • a tool for tamping (e.g., for tamping tobacco into a pipe bowl or a charge into a drill hole etc.):tamptamping bar

Word family

2 related words
Relateddampertamp

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
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