tamper

suomi-englanti sanakirja

tamper englannista suomeksi

  1. peukaloida

  2. kajota

  3. juntta

  1. sormeilla, peukaloida, kajota

  2. Verbi

tamper englanniksi

  1. A person or thing that tamps.

  2. A tool used to tamp something down, such as tobacco in a pipe.

  3. A railway vehicle used to tamp down ballast.

  4. (syn)

  5. An envelope of neutron-reflecting material in a weapon, used to delay the expansion of the reacting material and thus produce a longer-lasting and more energetic explosion.

  6. To make unauthorized or improper alterations, sometimes causing deliberate damage; to meddle (''with'' something).

  7. (ux)

  8. (quote-text)|title=Christian Moderation|location=London|publisher=Nathaniel Butter|section=Book 1, § 7, p. 70|url=http://name.umdl.umich.edu/A02520.0001.001

  9. {{quote-book|en|year=1641|author=John Milton|title=Of Reformation|publisher=Thomas Underhill|page=25|pageurl=http://name.umdl.umich.edu/A50916.0001.001

  10. (RQ:Scott Rob Roy) a small steel pistol was concealed within the purse, the trigger of which was connected with the mounting, and made part of the machinery, so that the weapon would certainly be discharged, and in all probability its contents lodged in the person of any one, who, being unacquainted with the secret, should tamper with the lock which secured his treasure.

  11. {{quote-book|en|year=1962|author=Rachel Carson|title=Silent Spring|location=Boston|publisher=Houghton Mifflin|chapter=17|page=297|url=https://www.fadedpage.com/books/20151002/html.php

  12. To try to influence someone, usually in an illegal or devious way; to try to deal (''with'' someone).

  13. {{quote-book|en|year=1651|author=John Milton|title=The Life and Reigne of King Charls|location=London|publisher=W. Reybold|page=217|url=http://name.umdl.umich.edu/A50910.0001.001

  14. {{quote-book|en|year=1740|author=David Hume|title=A Treatise of Human Nature|location=London|publisher=John Noon|section=Volume 3, Part 2, Section 5, p. 110|url=http://name.umdl.umich.edu/004806339.0001.003

  15. (quote-book)|location=London|publisher=Longman and Rees|section=Volume 1, Letter 6, p. 169|url=https://archive.org/details/cihm_44228/page/n316

  16. (RQ:Dickens Nicholas Nickleby)

  17. To meddle (''with'' something) in order to corrupt or pervert it.

  18. 1741, (w), ''(w),'' London: C. Rivington and J. Osborn, Volume(nbs)1, “To my worthy Friend, the Editor of PAMELA,” p.(nbs)xii,http://name.umdl.umich.edu/004873068.0001.001

  19. (..) No Art used to inflame him, no Coquetry practised to tempt or intice him, and no Prudery or Affectation to tamper with his Passions; but, on the contrary, artless and unpractised in the Wiles of the World, all her Endeavours, and even all her Wishes, tended only to render herself as un-amiable as she could in his Eyes:
  20. {{quote-book|en|year=1790|author=Ann Radcliffe|title=A Sicilian Romance|location=London|publisher=T. Hookham|volume=2|chapter=11|page=77|url=http://name.umdl.umich.edu/004837680.0001.002

  21. {{quote-book|en|year=1903|author=W. E. B. Du Bois|title=The Souls of Black Folk|location=Chicago|publisher=A. C. McClurg|chapter=10|page=204|url=https://archive.org/details/soulsblackfolke03boisgoog/page/n218

  22. To involve oneself (''in'' a plot, scheme, etc.).

  23. 1716, (w), ''The Free-holder,'' No.(nbs)31, 6(nbs)April, 1716, London: D. Midwinter and J. Tonson, p.(nbs)180,http://name.umdl.umich.edu/004806457.0001.000

  24. (..) he was beheaded upon the Defeat of the Conspiracy for having but thus far tampered in it.
  25. To attempt to practise or administer something (especially medicine) without sufficient knowledge or qualifications.

  26. {{quote-text|en|year=1649|translator=Nicholas Culpeper|title=A Physicall Director|location=London|publisher=Peter Cole|page=29|url=http://name.umdl.umich.edu/A35390.0001.001

  27. (RQ:Defoe Plague Year) Corners of Streets were plaster’d over with Doctors Bills, and Papers of ignorant Fellows; quacking and tampering in Physick, and inviting People to come to them for Remedies;

  28. (quote-book)|title=The Lives of the Poets of Great Britain and Ireland|location=London|publisher=R. Griffiths|volume=2|chapter=John Milton|pages=120–121|url=http://name.umdl.umich.edu/004851380.0001.002

  29. To discuss future contracts with a player, against league rules.

  30. (rfdef)