What's the difference between tamper and tool?

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.

Tool


Definition:

  • (n.) An instrument such as a hammer, saw, plane, file, and the like, used in the manual arts, to facilitate mechanical operations; any instrument used by a craftsman or laborer at his work; an implement; as, the tools of a joiner, smith, shoe-maker, etc.; also, a cutter, chisel, or other part of an instrument or machine that dresses work.
  • (n.) A machine for cutting or shaping materials; -- also called machine tool.
  • (n.) Hence, any instrument of use or service.
  • (n.) A weapon.
  • (n.) A person used as an instrument by another person; -- a word of reproach; as, men of intrigue have their tools, by whose agency they accomplish their purposes.
  • (v. t.) To shape, form, or finish with a tool.
  • (v. t.) To drive, as a coach.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Spectral analysis of spontaneous heart rate fluctuations, a powerful noninvasive tool for quantifying autonomic nervous system activity, was assessed in Xenopus Laevis, intact or spinalized, at different temperatures and by use of pharmacological tools.
  • (2) The HTCA is promising as a potential tool for studying the biology of tumors.
  • (3) But both for malaria and Aids we’re seeing the tools that will let us do 95-100% reduction.
  • (4) These studies demonstrate the potential of ICAM-1 transfectants as tools for analysis of the role of ICAM-1 in lymphoid adhesion.
  • (5) This method can characterize reliably flavivirus field isolates at the molecular level without extensive virus propagation and molecular cloning, and will be a valuable tool for molecular epidemiological studies.
  • (6) The basic principle of the resonant tool, its adaptation for surgery, the experimental results of its use in animals, and clinical experience are reported.
  • (7) Colloidal gold immuno-electron microscopy is a powerful tool for defining antigenicity at the subcellular level.
  • (8) A diversity of serogroups and toxigenicity was a general finding, however, strains found in the proximal gut were also cultured from the rectum, indicating that faecal specimens would be a valid tool in investigating the role of these organisms in SIDS cases compared with healthy controls.
  • (9) SR 42128 is a potent and long-acting tool for studying the role of the renin angiotensin system in primates and humans.
  • (10) In this study we propose a method for the analysis of the relationship between heart rate changes and respiration as a possible diagnostic tool for cardiac autonomic damage.
  • (11) However LHRH agonists alone or in combination with ovarian steroids are of potential value as a research tool.
  • (12) These findings demonstrate that heteroantisera can provide an additional important tool for dissecting the heterogeneity of T-cell leukemias and for relating them to more differentiated normal T cells.
  • (13) This model provides a standard nonoperative approach for the induction of intestinal ischemia in dogs and could be a valuable tool in the study of intestinal ischemia.
  • (14) Before we embark on the next steps of the global technological revolution, we must ensure that the most basic of online tools are accessible to all.
  • (15) This ion-selective microelectrode may show promise as a useful tool for the determination of intracellular bile salt activity.
  • (16) Axotomy should be a useful tool for determining which other neurotransmitter receptors are produced by facial motoneurons and efferent neurons in other cranial nerve nuclei.
  • (17) Given that patient preferences constitute a central concept within the framework of HRQL, further empirical evaluation of utility measures of preference is fundamental to improving the HRQL measurement tool-kit.
  • (18) This study also demonstrates that pulsed-field gel electrophoresis is a powerful new tool for the analysis of human chromosomal translocations.
  • (19) In order to maximize the utility of these tools a high degree of reliability is essential.
  • (20) Extraction tools included flexible, telescoping sheaths advanced over the lead to dilate scar tissue and apply countertraction, deflection catheters, and wire basket snares.