What is another word for tampers?

Pronunciation: [tˈampəz] (IPA)

Tampers are tools used to compress or pack material, such as coffee or soil. There are several synonyms for the word tampers that can be used to describe similar tools or actions. Some alternative words include compressors, packers, crushers, pounders, and mallets. Each of these words describes a tool or action that involves applying pressure to material in order to pack it down or crush it. Whether you're talking about coffee, soil, or any other material that needs to be packed down, using these synonyms can add variety and interest to your language and make your writing or speaking more engaging to your audience.

What are the hypernyms for Tampers?

A hypernym is a word with a broad meaning that encompasses more specific words called hyponyms.

Usage examples for Tampers

My servant has orders to shoot anybody who tampers with my chicken house tonight.
"Tom Swift and his Electric Locomotive or, Two Miles a Minute on the Rails"
Victor Appleton
I congratulate with the Manes of our Poet, that this Gentleman has been sparing in indulging his private Sense, as he phrases it; for He who tampers with an Author whom he does not understand, must do it at the Expence of his Subject.
"Eighteenth Century Essays on Shakespeare"
D. Nichol Smith
Hence he generally exerts his conjectural Talent in the wrong Place: He tampers with what is found in the common Books; and, in the old ones, omits all Notice of Variations the Sense of which he did not understand.
"Eighteenth Century Essays on Shakespeare"
D. Nichol Smith

Famous quotes with Tampers

  • No one gets angry at a mathematician or a physicist whom he or she doesn't understand, or at someone who speaks a foreign language, but rather at someone who tampers with your own language.
    Jacques Derrida
  • He who tampers with the currency robs labor of its bread.
    Daniel Webster
  • I do not approve of anything that tampers with natural ignorance. Ignorance is like a delicate exotic fruit; touch it and the bloom is gone.
    Oscar Wilde
  • For property is robbery, but then, we are all robbers or would-be robbers together, and have found it essential to organise our thieving, as we have found it necessary to organise our lust and our revenge. Property, marriage, the law; as the bed to the river, so rule and convention to the instinct; and woe to him who tampers with the banks while the flood is flowing.
    Samuel Butler (novelist)

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