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TAMP

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 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

A tool for tamping (e.g., for tamping tobacco into a pipe bowl or a charge into a drill hole etc.)

Synonyms:

tamp; tamper; tamping bar

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Hypernyms ("tamp" is a kind of...):

tool (an implement used in the practice of a vocation)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "tamp"):

stemmer (a miner's tamping bar for ramming packing in over a blasting charge)

Derivation:

tamp (press down tightly)

 II. (verb) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

Press down tightly

Example:

tamp the coffee grinds in the container to make espresso

Synonyms:

pack; tamp; tamp down

Classified under:

Verbs of touching, hitting, tying, digging

Hypernyms (to "tamp" is one way to...):

compact; compress; pack together (make more compact by or as if by pressing)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s something

Derivation:

tamp; tamper (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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