| VERB | contact | tamp, tamp down, pack | press down tightly |
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| NOUN | artifact | tamp, tamper, tamping bar | a tool for tamping (e.g., for tamping tobacco into a pipe bowl or a charge into a drill hole etc.) |
| Sounds | tae'mp | |
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| Rhymes | amp / AMP ... vamp: 17 rhymes with aemp... | |
| Meaning | 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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| Synonyms | tamper, tamping bar | |
| Narrower | stemmer | A miner's tamping bar for ramming packing in over a blasting charge |
| Broader | tool | An implement used in the practice of a vocation |
| Catalan | picó | |
| Verbs | tamp | press down tightly |
| Meaning | press down tightly. | |
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| Pattern | Somebody ----s something | |
| Example | "tamp the coffee grinds in the container to make espresso" | |
| Synonyms | tamp down, pack | |
| Broader | compress, compact, pack together | make more compact by or as if by pressing |
| Spanish | apisonar, empacar | |
| Catalan | maçonar, piconar, pitjar | |
| Nouns | 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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