What's the difference between bung and tampion?

Bung


Definition:

  • (n.) The large stopper of the orifice in the bilge of a cask.
  • (n.) The orifice in the bilge of a cask through which it is filled; bunghole.
  • (n.) A sharper or pickpocket.
  • (v. t.) To stop, as the orifice in the bilge of a cask, with a bung; to close; -- with up.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) More than 60 officers, who might be investigating a burglary in your street, are zealously pursuing other cops and public officials who may, or may not, have taken bungs from Sun journalists in return for information.
  • (2) "I said it's got nothing to do with a bung," he explained.
  • (3) The femoral medullary cavity is plugged with a bone core taken from the excised femoral head or with a polyethylene bung.
  • (4) Dawn raids However, as Redknapp's successful 2008 challenge to the legality of the search warrant later revealed, Operation Apprentice was not related to bungs at all.
  • (5) In fact, the City of London police investigation centred not on bungs but on what the force has said was alleged money-laundering.
  • (6) Bung enough money at a sufficiently ingenious lawyer and you’re in the club.
  • (7) A document showing that former Sun editor Rebekah Brooks personally authorised a cash payment for a story was not disclosed to police investigating whether staff at her paper were paying bungs to public officials for tipoffs, a jury has heard.
  • (8) (lacovitti, L., M. I. Johnson, T. H. Joh, and R. P. Bunge (1982) Neuroscience 7:2225-2239).
  • (9) It is argued that Bunge's dialectic is developed from a dualistic universe and is, therefore, incompatible with Rogers's views on the unitary nature of phenomena.
  • (10) E. sinica Stapf, E. equisetina Bunge, E. intermedia Schrenk ex Mey., E. qrzewaskiistaqs E. monosperma Gmel.
  • (11) Stellate astrocytes might therefore represent mature astrocytes in vivo (Ard and Bunge: J. Neurosci.
  • (12) The claims had credence, because even before the billions from Sky TV and the Premier League's commercial revolution, bungs were indeed proved to have been paid.
  • (13) For example, bonuses of 200% have become routine; but why do so many companies use such rough and ready round numbers – hardly a sign that anybody has thought carefully about what is needed to produce performance and much more like a pure bung – and then accompany them with requirements for their eligibility that are far from demanding and transparent?
  • (14) Anyway, if there is a good time to get caught paying bungs, this wasn’t it, what with US president Donald Trump already hinting that he may have pharmaceuticals companies in his sights over drug pricing.
  • (15) In addition to new impulses initiated by Paracelsus, the author emphasizes the clinical and experimental studies pursued, from the 17th to the 19th centuries, by such scientists as Thomas Sydenham, Justus von Liebig, Carl von Voit and Gustav von Bunge.
  • (16) Threadneedle Street got quite sniffy when it was suggested that the FLS would be a bung to the high street banks benefiting only Britain's vociferous and overblown housing lobby?
  • (17) An original bank The problem with “challenger” banks, it is often said, is that they attract the most challenging customers – ie those who are happy to switch their current accounts for a year for £100, then depart in search of the next bung.
  • (18) Or are the terrestrial services bunged up with clowns like in the UK, and you're giving them the bodyswerve?
  • (19) It is not as if his windfall had come from secretly manipulating the Libor rate or getting a bung for fixing a Fifa vote.
  • (20) When these date were compared to RGC survival and axon growth on SC (Baehr and Bunge: Exp.

Tampion


Definition:

  • (n.) A wooden stopper, or plug, as for a cannon or other piece of ordnance, when not in use.
  • (n.) A plug for upper end of an organ pipe.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The protein-binding assay developed by Brown, Albano, Ekins, Sgherzi & Tampion [(1971) Biochem.