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Look up: tamper

  1. tamper
    interfere with 
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  2. tamper
    [v] - fool or play around with
    Found on http://www.webdictionary.co.uk/definitio

  3. tamper
    a mass, usually of metal, whereby concrete is stamped by hand or machine to compact it. Category: Building industry
    Found on http://www.mijnwoordenboek.nl/definition

  4. Tamper
    Tamp"er noun 1. One who tamps; specifically, one who prepares for blasting, by filling the hole in which the charge is placed. 2. An instrument used in tamping; a tamping iron.
    Found on http://www.encyclo.co.uk/webster/T/8

  5. Tamper
    Tam"per intransitive verb [ imperfect & past participle Tampered ; present participle & verbal noun Tampering .] [ A corruption of temper .] 1. To meddle; to be busy; to try little experiments; as, to tamper with a disease. « 'T is dangerous tampering with a muse.» Roscommon. 2.< …
    Found on http://www.encyclo.co.uk/webster/T/8

  6. tamper
    1. To meddle; to be busy; to try little experiments; as, to tamper with a disease. "'T is dangerous tampering with a muse." (Roscommon) ... 2. To meddle so as to alter, injure, or vitiate a thing. ... 3. To deal unfairly; to practice secretly; to use bribery. "Others tampered For Fleetwood, Desborough, and Lambert." (Hudibras) ... Origin: A corruption …
    Found on http://cancerweb.ncl.ac.uk/cgi-bin/omd?t

  7. Tamper
    `Tamper` can mean: * A device used for tamping, commonly to prepare ground coffee beans to make espresso. * * A ballast tamper, a machine that tamps track ballast. * In nuclear weapon design, either a shell surrounding the fission core and keeping the nuclear material assembled during the explosion for longer time, raising yield, or the outermost layer of a thermonuclear component. * A tool with a long handle and a flat metal head, used in a `s...
    Found on http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tamper

  8. Tamper
    • (v. i.) To meddle; to be busy; to try little experiments; as, to tamper with a disease. • (n.) An instrument used in tamping; a tamping iron. • (n.) One who tamps; specifically, one who prepares for blasting, by filling the hole in which the charge is placed. • (v. i.) To meddle so as to alter, injure, or vitiate a thing. &bul...
    Found on http://thinkexist.com/dictionary/meaning

  9. tamper
    (from the article `atomic bomb`) ...detonated, implode the fissionable material under enormous pressures into a denser mass that immediately achieves criticality. An important aid in ...
    Found on http://www.britannica.com/eb/a-z/t/9

  10. Tamper
    1) An implement used to consolidate concrete or mortar in molds or forms. 2) A hand-operated device for compacting floor topping or other unformed concrete by impact from the dropped device in preparation for strikeoff and finishing; contact surface often consists of a screen or a grid of bars to force coarse aggregates below the surface to prevent interference with floating or troweling. See also...
    Found on http://www.pavement.com/glossary/A.html

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5 December 2008

This day in history:
On 5th December 1872 a crewman on watch on board the British ship Dei Gratia sighted vessel that seemed to be in distress. Three seamen lowered the Dei Gratia's small boat and rowed across to the troubled craft to offer assistance. They hauled themselves over the ship's rails and dropped onto the deck; save for the sound of the wind in the sails and the eerie creaking of the ship's timbers, there was not a sound. The seamen searched the ship from stem to stern and found her to be in excellent condition, but there was not a soul on board. Her crew had disappeared. The name of the ship was Mary Celeste. read more

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