Tamper vs. Temper
Tampernoun
A person or thing that tamps.
Tampernoun
A tool used to tamp something down, such as tobacco in a pipe.
Tampernoun
(rail) A railway vehicle used to tamp down ballast.
Tampernoun
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.
Tamperverb
(intransitive) To make unauthorized or improper alterations, sometimes causing deliberate damage; to meddle (with something).
Tamperverb
(intransitive) To try to influence someone, usually in an illegal or devious way; to try to deal (with someone).
Tamperverb
(dated) To meddle (with something) in order to corrupt or pervert it.
Tamperverb
(obsolete) To involve oneself (in a plot, scheme, etc.).
Tamperverb
(obsolete) To attempt to practise or administer something (especially medicine) without sufficient knowledge or qualifications.
Tamperverb
(in professional sports) To discuss future contracts with a player, against league rules.
Tampernoun
One who tamps; specifically, one who prepares for blasting, by filling the hole in which the charge is placed.
Tampernoun
An instrument used in tamping; a tamping iron.
Tamperverb
To meddle; to be busy; to try little experiments; as, to tamper with a disease.
Tamperverb
To meddle so as to alter, injure, or vitiate a thing.
Tamperverb
To deal unfairly; to practice secretly; to use bribery.
Tampernoun
a tool for tamping (e.g., for tamping tobacco into a pipe bowl or a charge into a drill hole etc.)
Tamperverb
play around with or alter or falsify, usually secretively or dishonestly;
Tamperverb
intrude in other people's affairs or business; interfere unwantedly;
Tempernoun
A tendency to be in a certain type of mood; a habitual way of thinking, behaving or reacting.
Tempernoun
State of mind; mood.
Tempernoun
A tendency to become angry.
Tempernoun
Anger; a fit of anger.
Tempernoun
Calmness of mind; moderation; equanimity; composure.
Tempernoun
(obsolete) Constitution of body; the mixture or relative proportion of the four humours: blood, choler, phlegm, and melancholy.
Tempernoun
Middle state or course; mean; medium.
Tempernoun
The state of any compound substance which results from the mixture of various ingredients; due mixture of different qualities.
Tempernoun
The heat treatment to which a metal or other material has been subjected; a material that has undergone a particular heat treatment.
Tempernoun
The state of a metal or other substance, especially as to its hardness, produced by some process of heating or cooling.
Tempernoun
Milk of lime, or other substance, employed in the process formerly used to clarify sugar.
Temperverb
To moderate or control.
Temperverb
To strengthen or toughen a material, especially metal, by heat treatment; anneal.
Temperverb
To sauté spices in ghee or oil to release essential oils for flavouring a dish in South Asian cuisine.
Temperverb
To mix clay, plaster or mortar with water to obtain the proper consistency.
Temperverb
(music) To adjust, as the mathematical scale to the actual scale, or to that in actual use.
Temperverb
To govern; to manage.
Temperverb
(archaic) To combine in due proportions; to constitute; to compose.
Temperverb
(archaic) To mingle in due proportion; to prepare by combining; to modify, as by adding some new element; to qualify, as by an ingredient; hence, to soften; to mollify; to assuage.
Temperverb
(obsolete) To fit together; to adjust; to accommodate.
Temperverb
To mingle in due proportion; to prepare by combining; to modify, as by adding some new element; to qualify, as by an ingredient; hence, to soften; to mollify; to assuage; to soothe; to calm.
Temperverb
To fit together; to adjust; to accomodate.
Temperverb
To bring to a proper degree of hardness; as, to temper iron or steel.
Temperverb
To govern; to manage.
Temperverb
To moisten to a proper consistency and stir thoroughly, as clay for making brick, loam for molding, etc.
Temperverb
To adjust, as the mathematical scale to the actual scale, or to that in actual use.
Temperverb
To accord; to agree; to act and think in conformity.
Temperverb
To have or get a proper or desired state or quality; to grow soft and pliable.
Tempernoun
The state of any compound substance which results from the mixture of various ingredients; due mixture of different qualities; just combination; as, the temper of mortar.
Tempernoun
Constitution of body; temperament; in old writers, the mixture or relative proportion of the four humors, blood, choler, phlegm, and melancholy.
Tempernoun
Disposition of mind; the constitution of the mind, particularly with regard to the passions and affections; as, a calm temper; a hasty temper; a fretful temper.
Tempernoun
Calmness of mind; moderation; equanimity; composure; as, to keep one's temper.
Tempernoun
Heat of mind or passion; irritation; proneness to anger; - in a reproachful sense.
Tempernoun
The state of a metal or other substance, especially as to its hardness, produced by some process of heating or cooling; as, the temper of iron or steel.
Tempernoun
Middle state or course; mean; medium.
Tempernoun
Milk of lime, or other substance, employed in the process formerly used to clarify sugar.
Tempernoun
a sudden outburst of anger;
Tempernoun
a characteristic (habitual or relatively temporary) state of feeling;
Tempernoun
a disposition to exhibit uncontrolled anger;
Tempernoun
the elasticity and hardness of a metal object; its ability to absorb considerable energy before cracking
Temperverb
toughen (steel or glass) by a process of gradually heating and cooling;
Temperverb
harden by reheating and cooling in oil;
Temperverb
adjust the pitch (of pianos)
Temperverb
make more temperate, acceptable, or suitable by adding something else; moderate;
Temperverb
restrain or temper
