What's the difference between tamper and temper?

Tamper


Definition:

  • (n.) One who tamps; specifically, one who prepares for blasting, by filling the hole in which the charge is placed.
  • (n.) An instrument used in tamping; a tamping iron.
  • (v. i.) To meddle; to be busy; to try little experiments; as, to tamper with a disease.
  • (v. i.) To meddle so as to alter, injure, or vitiate a thing.
  • (v. i.) To deal unfairly; to practice secretly; to use bribery.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) There were numerous reports of looting and tampering with evidence, although rebel authorities angrily denied them.
  • (2) If they included a warning in the package ‘tamper resistance’ feature that works by non-Apple-authorised repair services may be mistaken for tampering attempts, and lead to the phone being disabled’, then it would be purely a feature ... By concealing the feature prior to sales, and only even revealing it after being repeatedly pressured over it, Apple turned what could have been a feature into a landmine.” Apple shares have fallen more than 20% in the past three months as investors begin to doubt whether it can maintain the stellar growth posted since the iPhone first went on sale eight years ago.
  • (3) However, only the doctors who graduated from the two modern universities in Kuopio and Tampere were satisfied with their undergraduate health centre teaching.
  • (4) Anal lesions were registered in 19 of 72 patients (26%) operated on for Crohn's disease at the Tampere University Hospital during 1966-1988.
  • (5) But all those involved strenuously denied they had deliberately, or even consciously, interfered or tampered with their tags.
  • (6) Also at issue will be whether Trump’s tweet – “James Comey better hope that there are no ‘tapes’ of our conversations before he starts leaking to the press!” – represents an attempt to tamper with a witness in an ongoing investigation.
  • (7) He says of the rumoured mood of fear among staff at Philly HQ: "I wasn't terrifying, but I wasn't someone to be tampered with.
  • (8) Rising numbers of consumers are finding they are subject to thieves who tamper with their gas and electricity meters to redirect some of their supply.
  • (9) Now anti-doping authorities demand that competitors urinate into two testing bottles in front of a control officer, who then applies tamper-proof seals to the containers, which are individually labelled and sent by courier to the laboratory.
  • (10) c-erbB-2 protein over-expression was studied immunohistochemically in 319 paraffin-embedded breast carcinomas representing 89% of all breast-cancer cases operated in the Tampere University Hospital between 1977 and 1981.
  • (11) The judge dismissed days of evidence about matters including police tampering with the crime scene and the length of extension cord in Pistorius's bedroom as ultimately irrelevant to the case.
  • (12) A one-year prospective follow-up study of all patients visiting Tampere Research Station of Sports Medicine (TRSSM) was carried out in order to determine the specific features of women's sports injuries compared to those of men.
  • (13) During the period 1975-1981, 48 persons were operated on at Tampere University Central Hospital for an acute knee ligament sports injury.
  • (14) Through his spokesman Ahmed al-Safi, al-Sistani said the prime minister must be more “daring and courageous” in his steps to reform the government, urging him to strike “with an iron fist anyone who is tampering with the people’s money”.
  • (15) To assess the intensity of and changes in diagnostic investigations and treatment in the terminal stages of breast cancer 555 patients in the area of Tampere University Central Hospital in whom breast cancer had been diagnosed from 1977 to 1980 were followed up for five years.
  • (16) July 2014: Trial collapses after it emerges Mahmood had tampered with evidence.
  • (17) After an investigation, it was clear the meter had been tampered with before she moved in, and the bill was wiped.
  • (18) After the surgery, we recognized that the controller unit of expiratory valve of the ventilator was obstructed by a Tamper Proof Film, which seals the outlet of a commercial bag of lactated Ringer's solution (Solulact, Terumo Co.).
  • (19) Thus the intended recipient would know the signal had been tampered with.
  • (20) One of the South Korean investigators, Shin Sang-cheol, sacrificed his career to express his belief that the Cheonan had run aground in a tragic accident and with reports of evidence tampering circulating, even the South Korean public wasn't widely convinced of North Korean involvement: a survey conducted in Seoul found less than 33% blamed the DPRK.

Temper


Definition:

  • (v. t.) To mingle in due proportion; to prepare by combining; to modify, as by adding some new element; to qualify, as by an ingredient; hence, to soften; to mollify; to assuage; to soothe; to calm.
  • (v. t.) To fit together; to adjust; to accomodate.
  • (v. t.) To bring to a proper degree of hardness; as, to temper iron or steel.
  • (v. t.) To govern; to manage.
  • (v. t.) To moisten to a proper consistency and stir thoroughly, as clay for making brick, loam for molding, etc.
  • (v. t.) To adjust, as the mathematical scale to the actual scale, or to that in actual use.
  • (n.) The state of any compound substance which results from the mixture of various ingredients; due mixture of different qualities; just combination; as, the temper of mortar.
  • (n.) Constitution of body; temperament; in old writers, the mixture or relative proportion of the four humors, blood, choler, phlegm, and melancholy.
  • (n.) Disposition of mind; the constitution of the mind, particularly with regard to the passions and affections; as, a calm temper; a hasty temper; a fretful temper.
  • (n.) Calmness of mind; moderation; equanimity; composure; as, to keep one's temper.
  • (n.) Heat of mind or passion; irritation; proneness to anger; -- in a reproachful sense.
  • (n.) The state of a metal or other substance, especially as to its hardness, produced by some process of heating or cooling; as, the temper of iron or steel.
  • (n.) Middle state or course; mean; medium.
  • (n.) Milk of lime, or other substance, employed in the process formerly used to clarify sugar.
  • (v. i.) To accord; to agree; to act and think in conformity.
  • (v. i.) To have or get a proper or desired state or quality; to grow soft and pliable.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) To become president of Afghanistan , Ashraf Ghani Ahmadzai changed his wardrobe and modified his name, gave up coffee, embraced a man he once denounced as a “known killer” and even toyed with anger management classes to tame a notorious temper.
  • (2) No definite relationship could be established between the biochemical reactions and the flagellar antigens of the lysogenic strain and its temperate phage though some temperate phages released by E. coli O119:B14 strains with certain flagellar antigens did give specific lytic patterns and were serologically identical.
  • (3) It begins with the origins of treatment in the self-help temperance movement of the 1830s and 1840s and the founding of the first inebriate homes, tracing in the United States the transformation of these small, private, spiritually inclined programs into the medically dominated, quasipublic inebriate asylums of the late 19th century.
  • (4) A temperate phage was induced from exponential phase cells of Erwinia herbicola Y46 by treatment with mitomycin C. The phage was purified by single plaque isolation, and produced in bulk by successive cultivation in young cultures of E. herbicola Y 178.
  • (5) A truncated form of the HBL murein hydrolase, encoded by the temperate bacteriophage HB-3, was cloned in a pUC-derivative and translated in Escherichia coli using AUC as start codon, as confirmed by biochemical, immunological, and N-terminal analyses.
  • (6) Group II (21%) included virulent and temperate phages with small isometric heads.
  • (7) Diagnostic methods which reveal only the presence or absence of Ostertagia in grazing animals are of little importance since all will acquire some degree of infection when grazed in the temperate regions of the world.
  • (8) Recently, methods have been developed to distinguish between human and animal faecal pollution in temperate climates.
  • (9) The recent enthusiasm for the combined Collis-Belsey operation should be tempered by continued, cautious, objective assessment of its long-term results.
  • (10) These differences in susceptibility are due, in part, to immunity imposed by temperate phages carried by the different strains.
  • (11) Therefore, production of turimycin is not controlled by the isolated temperate phage.
  • (12) On at least three independent occasions a 1.6 kb segment of Streptomyces coelicolor DNA was detected in apparently the same location in an attP-deleted derivative of the temperate phage phiC31 that carried a selectable viomycin resistance gene.
  • (13) These results indicated that gender tempers the effect of family type on adolescent adjustment.
  • (14) However, its use must be tempered with an appreciation of the limitations of the new technique and knowledge of the circumstances in which it may yield erroneous results.
  • (15) The infection of Bacillus thuringiensis, B. cereus, B. mesentericus and B. polymyxa strains with temperate E. coli bacteriophage Mu cts62 integrated into plasmid RP4 under conditions of conjugative transfer is shown possible.
  • (16) As newer techniques are developed, it is mandatory that the application of these techniques be tempered with controlled clinical trials, documenting their effectiveness.
  • (17) Such lesions are quite common in subtropical and tropical climates, and a review of the literature indicates that the incidence of this formerly rare entity is increasing in temperate climates.
  • (18) Calculated values of residual compressive stress for tempered specimens were considerably higher than those for specimens that were slowly cooled and those that were cooled by free convection.
  • (19) Three sedentary men underwent a 3-mo period of endurance training in a temperate climate, (dry bulb temperature (Tdb): 18 degrees C) and had their sweating sensitivity measured before and after the training period.
  • (20) This level of susceptibility is higher than that found in most temperate countries and mainland populations, and similar to descriptions in a few island and rural populations in the tropics.