TAMP

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does tamp mean? 

• TAMP (noun)
  The noun TAMP has 1 sense:

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

  Familiarity information: TAMP used as a noun is very rare.

• TAMP (verb)
  The verb TAMP has 1 sense:

1. press down tightly

  Familiarity information: TAMP used as a verb is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• TAMP (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.)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Synonyms:

tamp; tamper; tamping bar

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)

• TAMP (verb)

Present simple: I / you / we / they tamp    ... he / she / it tamps   
Past simple: tamped   
Past participle: tamped   
-ing form: tamping   

Sense 1

Meaning:

Press down tightly

Classified under:

Verbs of touching, hitting, tying, digging

Synonyms:

pack; tamp; tamp down

Context example:

tamp the coffee grinds in the container to make espresso

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.))

 Context examples 

In a healthy esophagus, SPINK7 tamps down inflammation and helps preserve tissue structure.

(Eosinophilic esophagitis may be due to missing protein, National Institutes of Health)