Crossword clues for tamper
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Tamper \Tamp"er\, n.
One who tamps; specifically, one who prepares for blasting, by filling the hole in which the charge is placed.
An instrument used in tamping; a tamping iron.
Tamper \Tam"per\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Tampered; p. pr. & vb. n. Tampering.] [A corruption of temper.]
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To meddle; to be busy; to try little experiments; as, to tamper with a disease.
'T is dangerous tampering with a muse.
--Roscommon. To meddle so as to alter, injure, or vitiate a thing.
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To deal unfairly; to practice secretly; to use bribery.
Others tampered For Fleetwood, Desborough, and Lambert.
--Hudibras.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
"meddle, interfere," 1560s, figurative use of tamper "to work in clay, etc., so as to mix it thoroughly," probably originally a variant of temper (v.), which is how it often was spelled at first. Perhaps it is a dialectal workmen's pronunciation. Related: Tampered; tampering.
"one who or that which tamps," 1864, agent noun from tamp (v.).
Wiktionary
Etymology 1 n. 1 A person or thing that tamps. 2 A tool used to tamp something down, such as tobacco in a pipe. Etymology 2
vb. 1 (context intransitive English) To alter by making unauthorized changes; to meddle. 2 (context in professional sports English) To discuss future contracts against league rules with a player.
WordNet
n. a tool for tamping (e.g., for tamping tobacco into a pipe bowl or a charge into a drill hole etc.) [syn: tamp, tamping bar]
v. play around with or alter or falsify, usually secretively or dishonestly; "Someone tampered with the documents on my desk"; "The reporter fiddle with the facts" [syn: fiddle, monkey]
intrude in other people's affairs or business; interfere unwantedly; "Don't meddle in my affairs!" [syn: meddle]
Wikipedia
Tamper can mean:
- Tamp, a device used to compact or flatten an aggregate or other powdered or granular material, like ground coffee or gravel
- A tool used to pack tobacco into a smoking pipe, as well as to flatten or scoop the ash; usually nail-shaped and sometimes combined into a pipe tool
- Ballast tamper, a machine that tamps railroad track ballast
- Tamper, or neutron reflector, a shell of dense material surrounding the fission core of a nuclear fission weapon
Usage examples of "tamper".
But when Data uncovered computer tampering used to frame Adin, Starfleet had cleared him of all charges.
The arcading of the south aisle of the nave has been terribly tampered with.
So had the tampering with the bomb line before the mission to Bologna and the seven-day delay in destroying the bridge at Ferrara, even though destroying the bridge at Ferrara finally, he remembered with glee, had been a real feather in his cap, although losing a plane there the second time around, he recalled in dejection, had been another black eye, even though he had won another real feather in his cap by getting a medal approved for the bombardier who had gotten him the real black eye in the first place by going around over the target twice.
A man was foolish to tamper with a good thing just for the joy of seeing one of the hugies strewn down a lane.
To tamper with such a work of genius would be nothing less than iconoclasm, in my humble opinion.
Halls of Horror named in shuddering legendry, the tunnels and dungeons wherein Tsotha performed horrible experiments with beings human, bestial, and, it was whispered, demoniac, tampering blasphemously with the naked basic elements of life itself.
Piscina Mirabilis, were in such a mess, might it be because they had been tampered with?
Additionally, the sky-car must be protected against every manner of damage, nuisance and misfortune, including pilferage, destruction, curiosity, tampering, vandalism, defilement, removal or concealment.
Finally, after tamping, away for a bit and puffing and relighting and tamping some more, he shoved the tobacco and matches and tamper back into a pocket and once again removed the watch, holding it up in front of himself as if checking the time.
Comte de Grammont, motioning toward the Messieurs de Coligny, the Cardinal de Chatillon, Danville, Thore, Moret, and several other seigneurs suspected of tampering with the Reformation, who were standing between two windows on the other side of the fireplace.
Also, serious penalties are levied for product tampering, and even for falsely alleging that products have been tampered with.
He knew at once that Bronden suspected that the new prisoner was tampering with the lights.
You think I like it that, during my celebration, a dashing young madman dreaming to conquer the stars becomes convinced that he is hunted by impossible enemies, breaks open his forbidden memories, astonishes the world, ends our universal mass-amnesia, defies the Hortators, and, amid allegations that the Hortator Inquest was tampered with, is exiled?
Second, that the Phaethon memory-record was tampered with during the moment it took him to transfer it from his public thoughtspace to the Hortator reading circuit.
The light outside was fading by the time he had fixed a macrobiotic dinner, eaten it slowly to avoid taxing his digestive system, drunk two glasses of distilled water, and taken one aspirin from a new package that he inspected for signs of tampering.