noun Download 🔗Share A person or thing that tamps. Examples : "The tamper in the printer jammed the paper. " thing item utensil machine Chat with AIVocabulary GamePractice Reading
noun Download 🔗Share A tool used to tamp something down, such as tobacco in a pipe. Examples : "He used his tamper to gently press the tobacco into the pipe before lighting it. " utensil item Chat with AIVocabulary GamePractice Reading
noun Download 🔗Share A railway vehicle used to tamp down ballast. Examples : "The railway workers used the tamper to compact the gravel around the tracks. " vehicle machine technical industry Chat with AIVocabulary GamePractice Reading
noun Download 🔗Share 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 : "The tamper in the nuclear weapon design was crucial for the sustained explosion. " material energy physics technology weapon science Chat with AIVocabulary GamePractice Reading
verb Download 🔗Share To make unauthorized or improper alterations, sometimes causing deliberate damage; to meddle (with something). Examples : "The alarm had been tampered with and didn’t go off when it should have." action law property Chat with AIVocabulary GamePractice Reading
verb Download 🔗Share To try to influence someone, usually in an illegal or devious way; to try to deal (with someone). Examples : "Prosecutors argued that he would tamper with witnesses if bail was granted." politics government law action Chat with AIVocabulary GamePractice Reading
verb Download 🔗Share To meddle (with something) in order to corrupt or pervert it. Examples : "The student tampered with the test answers, hoping to get a better grade. " action law police Chat with AIVocabulary GamePractice Reading
verb Download 🔗Share To involve oneself (in a plot, scheme, etc.). Examples : "He chose not to tamper in the office politics, preferring to focus on his own work. " action politics government plan organization Chat with AIVocabulary GamePractice Reading
verb Download 🔗Share To attempt to practise or administer something (especially medicine) without sufficient knowledge or qualifications. Examples : ""Please don't tamper with the car engine if you don't know how it works; you might damage it." " medicine action job Chat with AIVocabulary GamePractice Reading
verb Download 🔗Share (in professional sports) To discuss future contracts with a player, against league rules. Examples : "The coach was warned for tampering with a promising young player, discussing their contract before the season ended. " sport business Chat with AIVocabulary GamePractice Reading