tamp
pronunciation
How to pronounce tamp in British English:
UK [tæmp]
How to pronounce tamp in American English:
US [tæmp]
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- Noun:
- a tool for tamping (e.g., for tamping tobacco into a pipe bowl or a charge into a drill hole etc.)
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- Verb:
- press down tightly
Word Origin
- tamp (v.)
- 1819, "to fill (a hole containing an explosive) with dirt or clay before blasting," a workmen's word, perhaps a back-formation from tampion, that word being mistaken as a present participle (*tamping).
Example
- 1. You will also need to tamp it down .
- 2. Otto von bismarck , a prussian chancellor , used his to tamp down the tobacco in his pipe .
- 3. Both consumers and businesses will benefit from rules designed to tamp down abusive practices .
- 4. But iraq has yet to pass an oil revenue-sharing law , something that could tamp down major sectarian strife .
- 5. The tregs appeared to tamp down the immune system , prolonging the survival of skin grafts from 13 days to 19 days .