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I tend to write and record things quite quickly. You can tamper with things for years, and it's artistic laziness sometimes.
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Meaning of "tamper" in the English dictionary

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ETYMOLOGY OF THE WORD TAMPER

Alteration of temper (verb).
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Etymology is the study of the origin of words and their changes in structure and significance.
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PRONUNCIATION OF TAMPER

tamper  [ˈtæmpə] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF TAMPER

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Tamper is a verb.
The verb is the part of the sentence that is conjugated and expresses action and state of being.

See the conjugation of the verb tamper in English.

WHAT DOES TAMPER MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Tamper

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...

Definition of tamper in the English dictionary

The first definition of tamper in the dictionary is to interfere or meddle. Other definition of tamper is to use corrupt practices such as bribery or blackmail. Tamper is also to attempt to influence or corrupt, esp by bribery.

CONJUGATION OF THE VERB TO TAMPER

PRESENT

Present
I tamper
you tamper
he/she/it tampers
we tamper
you tamper
they tamper
Present continuous
I am tampering
you are tampering
he/she/it is tampering
we are tampering
you are tampering
they are tampering
Present perfect
I have tampered
you have tampered
he/she/it has tampered
we have tampered
you have tampered
they have tampered
Present perfect continuous
I have been tampering
you have been tampering
he/she/it has been tampering
we have been tampering
you have been tampering
they have been tampering
Present tense is used to refer to circumstances that exist at the present time or over a period that includes the present time. The present perfect refers to past events, although it can be considered to denote primarily the resulting present situation rather than the events themselves.

PAST

Past
I tampered
you tampered
he/she/it tampered
we tampered
you tampered
they tampered
Past continuous
I was tampering
you were tampering
he/she/it was tampering
we were tampering
you were tampering
they were tampering
Past perfect
I had tampered
you had tampered
he/she/it had tampered
we had tampered
you had tampered
they had tampered
Past perfect continuous
I had been tampering
you had been tampering
he/she/it had been tampering
we had been tampering
you had been tampering
they had been tampering
Past tense forms express circumstances existing at some time in the past,

FUTURE

Future
I will tamper
you will tamper
he/she/it will tamper
we will tamper
you will tamper
they will tamper
Future continuous
I will be tampering
you will be tampering
he/she/it will be tampering
we will be tampering
you will be tampering
they will be tampering
Future perfect
I will have tampered
you will have tampered
he/she/it will have tampered
we will have tampered
you will have tampered
they will have tampered
Future perfect continuous
I will have been tampering
you will have been tampering
he/she/it will have been tampering
we will have been tampering
you will have been tampering
they will have been tampering
The future is used to express circumstances that will occur at a later time.

CONDITIONAL

Conditional
I would tamper
you would tamper
he/she/it would tamper
we would tamper
you would tamper
they would tamper
Conditional continuous
I would be tampering
you would be tampering
he/she/it would be tampering
we would be tampering
you would be tampering
they would be tampering
Conditional perfect
I would have tamper
you would have tamper
he/she/it would have tamper
we would have tamper
you would have tamper
they would have tamper
Conditional perfect continuous
I would have been tampering
you would have been tampering
he/she/it would have been tampering
we would have been tampering
you would have been tampering
they would have been tampering
Conditional or "future-in-the-past" tense refers to hypothetical or possible actions.

IMPERATIVE

Imperative
you tamper
we let´s tamper
you tamper
The imperative is used to form commands or requests.
NONFINITE VERB FORMS
Infinitive
to tamper
Past participle
tampered
Present Participle
tampering
Infinitive shows the action beyond temporal perspective. The present participle or gerund shows the action during the session. The past participle shows the action after completion.

WORDS THAT RHYME WITH TAMPER


camper
ˈkæmpə
champer
ˈtʃæmpə
chinampa
tʃɪˈnæmpə
clamper
ˈklæmpə
cramper
ˈkræmpə
damper
ˈdæmpə
hamper
ˈhæmpə
pamper
ˈpæmpə
ramper
ˈræmpə
revamper
riːˈvæmpə
scamper
ˈskæmpə
stamper
ˈstæmpə
Tampa
ˈtæmpə
tramper
ˈtræmpə
underdamper
ˈʌndəˌdæmpə
vamper
ˈvæmpə

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE TAMPER

tammy
tammy cloth
tamoxifen
tamp
Tampa
tampala
tampan
Tampax
tamper-proof
Tampere
tamperer
tampering
Tampico
tamping
tamping mad
tampion
tampon
tamponade
tamponage

WORDS THAT END LIKE TAMPER

bumper to bumper
Christmas hamper
dumper
happy camper
high jumper
Jolly Jumper
jumper
picnic hamper
plumper
pumper
Quimper
rear bumper
romper
semper
stumper
swamper
telescopic damper
temper
thumper
whimper

Synonyms and antonyms of tamper in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

SYNONYMS OF «TAMPER»

The following words have a similar or identical meaning as «tamper» and belong to the same grammatical category.
synonyms of tamper

Translation of «tamper» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF TAMPER

Find out the translation of tamper to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of tamper from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «tamper» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

干涉
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

manipular
570 millions of speakers

English

tamper
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

छेड़छाड़
380 millions of speakers
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Translator English - Arabic

عبث
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

вмешиваться
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

adulterar
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

অবৈধ প্রভাব বিস্তার করা
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

trafiquer
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Mengganggu
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

verfälschen
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

いじくる
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

조작하다
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Tamper
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

làm lộn xộn
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

திருத்திக்கொள்வதற்கான
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

लुडबुड
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

kurcalamak
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

manomettere
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

manipulować
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

втручатися
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

manipuleze
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

πειράζετε
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

peuter
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

mixtra
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

tukle
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of tamper

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «TAMPER»

The term «tamper» is quite widely used and occupies the 29.529 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «TAMPER» OVER TIME

The graph expresses the annual evolution of the frequency of use of the word «tamper» during the past 500 years. Its implementation is based on analysing how often the term «tamper» appears in digitalised printed sources in English between the year 1500 and the present day.

Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about tamper

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7 QUOTES WITH «TAMPER»

Famous quotes and sentences with the word tamper.
1
Warren Beatty
When you mutilate movies for mass media, you tamper with the hearts and minds of America.
2
Oleg Cassini
My philosophy is this: Do not tamper with the anatomy of a woman's body; do not camouflage it.
3
Cameron Crowe
Great music is its own movie, already. And the challenge, as a music fan, is to keep the song as powerful as it wants to be, to not tamper with it and to somehow give it a home.
4
Helen McCrory
As I've got older, I feel more confident in my body, so wouldn't want to tamper with it.
5
Kevin Mitnick
If you go to a coffee shop or at the airport, and you're using open wireless, I would use a VPN service that you could subscribe for 10 bucks a month. Everything is encrypted in an encryption tunnel, so a hacker cannot tamper with your connection.
6
Tom Odell
I tend to write and record things quite quickly. You can tamper with things for years, and it's artistic laziness sometimes.
7
Sharon Kay Penman
Whenever I've had to tamper with history for plot purposes, I make sure to mention that in my author's note, and I try to keep such tampering to a bare minimum. I also attempt to keep my characters true to their historical counterparts. This is not always possible, of course.

10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «TAMPER»

Discover the use of tamper in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to tamper and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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Good Manufacturing Practices for Pharmaceuticals, Sixth Edition
It is important that the consumer views the tamper-evident statement before purchase and use of the product so that he or she will be better aware of the tamper-evident features and any signs of tampering. Once the consumer opens the ...
Joseph D. Nally, 2006
2
Tamper-resilient Methods for Web-based Open Systems
First, we present a source-centric architecture and a set of techniques for providing tamper-resilient link analysis of the World Wide Web.
James Caverlee, 2007
3
Packaging of Pharmaceuticals and Healthcare Products
Definition Tamper evidence has been defined in the USA as the degree to which tampering is apparent to the observer. Tamper-evident packaging therefore is packaging that makes tampering apparent to the observer, to some degree.
H. Lockhart, Frank A. Paine, 1996
4
Mastering Real Estate Mathematics
Help your students overcome math anxiety with this comprehensive workbook that improves math skill and prepares students for actual real estate practice.
Ralph Tamper, 2002
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Strauss' Pharmacy Law and Examination Review, Third Edition ...
The Food and Drug Administration has the authority under the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act (the Act) to establish a uniform national requirement for tamper-resistant packaging of OTC drug products that will improve the security of  ...
Steven Strauss, 2000
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VoteBox: A Tamper-evident, Verifiable Voting Machine
Daniel Robert Sandler. UMI Number: 3362400 INFORMATION TO USERS The quality of this reproduction is dependent upon the quality of the copy submitted. Broken or indistinct print, colored or poor quality illustrations and photographs, ...
Daniel Robert Sandler, 2009
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Handbook of Financial Cryptography and Security
Marketing specialists like to brag about "tamper proof HSMs. In contrast, colleagues who specialize in designing and penetrating physical security protections insist that there is no such thing — instead, the best we can do is weave together ...
Burton Rosenberg, 2010
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Advances in Information Technology Research and Application: ...
indicated in the certified digital file corresponds to the number of certified time stamps provided by the certification device to the tamper-resistant certification device. “A computer readable medium storing instructions for causing a processor in a ...
‎2013
9
Encyclopedia of Cryptography and Security
Theory. and. Application. A basic (and often easily defeatable) example of tamper evidence are security seals, which (in theory) must be broken for physical entry to occur. Weingart [] provides a good introductory discussion.
Henk C.A. van Tilborg, Sushil Jajodia, 2011
10
The Physics of the Manhattan Project
tamper. The discussion here draws from the preceding section and from Bernstein (2002), Serber (1992), and especially Reed (2009). The idea behind a tamper is to surround the fissile core with a shell of dense material, as suggested in Fig.
B. Cameron Reed, 2010

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «TAMPER»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term tamper is used in the context of the following news items.
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US Congress members express concern over Canadian oxycodone …
OTTAWA—Some members of the U.S. Congress are concerned Canada is taking too long to force all oxycodone producers to make tamper-resistant forms of ... «Toronto Star, Jul 15»
2
New tamper-detecting seal is tough to fool
Jason Hamlet was on the Sandia National Laboratories team that developed SecuritySeal, a device that attaches to a container and detects tampering. «Phys.Org, Jul 15»
3
Ground-breaking tamper-proof airport carts to be made in Wales in …
A lightweight tamper-proof galley cart for catering and duty free use on aircraft is to be made in Wales for global distribution. Wales will be the only country in ... «WalesOnline, Jul 15»
4
Tamper-resistant oxycodone called a 'gimmick' in growing opioid crisis
Some doctors are calling tamper resistant painkillers – designed to prevent people from crushing, snorting or injecting it for a quick high – a "gimmick" in the fight ... «CBC.ca, Jun 15»
5
Ottawa to tackle opioid abuse with tamper-resistance rules
On Friday, Health Canada announced draft regulations that would require all oxycodone products to be “tamper-resistant” before they can be sold. «The Globe and Mail, Jun 15»
6
Can tamper with evidence: Court denies Gadkar bail
"In these circumstances, there is possibility of tampering of witnesses of the prosecution by pressurising the witnesses after release of the accused on bail. «Mumbai Mirror, Jun 15»
7
Tamper-proof pill bottle could help curb prescription painkiller …
You can whack it with a hammer, attack it with a drill, even stab it with a screwdriver. But try as you might, you won't be able to tamper with a high-tech pill ... «The Hub at Johns Hopkins, Jun 15»
8
FAA: Cockpit electronics can't be tamper-proof
More than a year after the Malaysia Air disappearance raised questions about onboard sabotage, the U.S. Federal Aviation Administration confided to ... «NWAOnline, Jun 15»
9
Police: IRS worker tampered with witness in DWI case
PORTSMOUTH — An Internal Revenue Service agent used her federal work email to tamper with a witness to her pending driving while intoxicated case, police ... «Seacoastonline.com, Apr 15»
10
Red tape on gas pumps to alert customers if thieves tamper with …
—GetGo gas stations have added red tape to their gas pumps so customers will be able to notice immediately if thieves have tried to tamper with the credit card ... «WTAE Pittsburgh, Mar 15»

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