Tamper vs. Temper — What's the Difference?
Difference Between Tamper and Temper
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Tamper
To interfere in a harmful or disruptive manner; meddle
Was worried the editor would tamper with her text.
Temper
A characteristic general quality; tone
Heroes who exemplified the medieval temper.
The politicized temper of the 1930s.
Tamper
To make alterations or adjustments, especially secretly so as to subvert an intended purpose or function
Tamper with a lock.
Discovered that the brakes had been tampered with.
Temper
To modify by the addition of a moderating element; moderate
"temper its doctrinaire logic with a little practical wisdom" (Robert H. Jackson).
Tamper
To engage in improper or secret actions, as in an effort to influence an outcome
Tamper with evidence.
Tamper with a jury.
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Temper
To bring to a desired consistency, texture, hardness, or other physical condition by blending, admixing, or kneading
Temper clay.
Paints that had been tempered with oil.
Tamper
To tinker rashly or foolishly
"The ability of chemists to create new drugs from natural compounds raises an old argument about whether human beings should tamper with nature" (Andrew Weil).
Temper
To harden or strengthen (metal or glass) by application of heat or by heating and cooling.
Tamper
To alter improperly.
Temper
To strengthen through experience or hardship; toughen
Soldiers who had been tempered by combat.
Tamper
A neutron reflector in an atomic bomb that also delays the expansion of the exploding material, making possible a longer-lasting, more energetic, and more efficient explosion.
Temper
(Music) To adjust (the pitch of an instrument) to a temperament.
Tamper
A person or thing that tamps.
Temper
To be or become tempered.
Tamper
A tool used to tamp something down, such as tobacco in a pipe.
Temper
A state of mind or emotion; disposition
An even temper.
Tamper
(rail) A railway vehicle used to tamp down ballast.
Temper
Calmness of mind or emotions; composure
Lose one's temper.
Tamper
An envelope of neutron-reflecting material in a nuclear weapon, used to delay the expansion of the reacting material and thus produce a longer-lasting and more energetic explosion.
Temper
A tendency to become easily angry or irritable
A quick temper.
Tamper
(intransitive) To make unauthorized or improper alterations, sometimes causing deliberate damage; to meddle (with something).
Tamper detection
The alarm had been tampered with and didn’t go off when it should have.
The election monitors found that a large number of ballots had been tampered with.
Temper
Anger; rage
A fit of temper.
Tamper
(intransitive) To try to influence someone, usually in an illegal or devious way; to try to deal (with someone).
Prosecutors argued that he would tamper with witnesses if bail was granted.
Temper
The condition of being tempered.
Tamper
(dated) To meddle (with something) in order to corrupt or pervert it.
Temper
The degree of hardness and elasticity of a metal, chiefly steel, achieved by tempering.
Tamper
(obsolete) To involve oneself (in a plot, scheme, etc.).
Temper
A modifying substance or agent added to something else.
Tamper
(obsolete) To attempt to practise or administer something (especially medicine) without sufficient knowledge or qualifications.
Temper
(Archaic) A middle course between extremes; a mean.
Tamper
To discuss future contracts with a player, against league rules.
Temper
A general tendency or orientation towards a certain type of mood, a volatile state; a habitual way of thinking, behaving or reacting.
To have a good, bad, or calm temper
Tamper
One who tamps; specifically, one who prepares for blasting, by filling the hole in which the charge is placed.
Temper
State of mind; mood.
Tamper
An instrument used in tamping; a tamping iron.
Temper
A tendency to become angry.
To have a hasty temper
He has quite a temper when dealing with salespeople.
Tamper
To meddle; to be busy; to try little experiments; as, to tamper with a disease.
'T is dangerous tampering with a muse.
Temper
Anger; a fit of anger.
An outburst of temper
Tamper
To meddle so as to alter, injure, or vitiate a thing.
Temper
Calmness of mind; moderation; equanimity; composure.
To keep one's temper; to lose one's temper; to recover one's temper
Tamper
To deal unfairly; to practice secretly; to use bribery.
Others tamperedFor Fleetwood, Desborough, and Lambert.
Temper
(obsolete) Constitution of body; the mixture or relative proportion of the four humours: blood, choler, phlegm, and melancholy.
Tamper
A tool for tamping (e.g., for tamping tobacco into a pipe bowl or a charge into a drill hole etc.)
Temper
Middle state or course; mean; medium.
Tamper
Play around with or alter or falsify, usually secretively or dishonestly;
Someone tampered with the documents on my desk
The reporter fiddle with the facts
Temper
The state of any compound substance which results from the mixture of various ingredients; due mixture of different qualities.
The temper of mortar
Tamper
Intrude in other people's affairs or business; interfere unwantedly;
Don't meddle in my affairs!
Temper
The heat treatment to which a metal or other material has been subjected; a material that has undergone a particular heat treatment.
Temper
The state of a metal or other substance, especially as to its hardness, produced by some process of heating or cooling.
The temper of iron or steel
Temper
Milk of lime, or other substance, employed in the process formerly used to clarify sugar.
Temper
To moderate or control.
Temper your language around children.
Temper
To strengthen or toughen a material, especially metal, by heat treatment; anneal.
Tempering is a heat treatment technique applied to metals, alloys, and glass to achieve greater toughness by increasing the strength of materials and/or ductility. Tempering is performed by a controlled reheating of the work piece to a temperature below its lower eutectic critical temperature.
Temper
(cooking) To adjust the temperature of an ingredient (e.g. eggs or chocolate) gradually so that it remains smooth and pleasing.
Temper
To sauté spices in ghee or oil to release essential oils for flavouring a dish in South Asian cuisine.
Temper
To mix clay, plaster or mortar with water to obtain the proper consistency.
Temper
(music) To adjust, as the mathematical scale to the actual scale, or to that in actual use.
Temper
To govern; to manage.
Temper
(archaic) To combine in due proportions; to constitute; to compose.
Temper
(archaic) 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.
Temper
(obsolete) To fit together; to adjust; to accommodate.
Temper
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.
Puritan austerity was so tempered by Dutch indifference, that mercy itself could not have dictated a milder system.
Woman! lovely woman! nature made theeTo temper man: we had been brutes without you.
But thy fireShall be more tempered, and thy hope far higher.
She [the Goddess of Justice] threw darkness and clouds about her, that tempered the light into a thousand beautiful shades and colors.
Temper
To fit together; to adjust; to accomodate.
Thy sustenance . . . serving to the appetite of the eater, tempered itself to every man's liking.
Temper
To bring to a proper degree of hardness; as, to temper iron or steel.
The tempered metals clash, and yield a silver sound.
Temper
To govern; to manage.
With which the damned ghosts he governeth,And furies rules, and Tartare tempereth.
Temper
To moisten to a proper consistency and stir thoroughly, as clay for making brick, loam for molding, etc.
Temper
To adjust, as the mathematical scale to the actual scale, or to that in actual use.
Temper
To accord; to agree; to act and think in conformity.
Temper
To have or get a proper or desired state or quality; to grow soft and pliable.
I have him already tempering between my finger and my thumb, and shortly will I seal with him.
Temper
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.
Temper
Constitution of body; temperament; in old writers, the mixture or relative proportion of the four humors, blood, choler, phlegm, and melancholy.
The exquisiteness of his [Christ's] bodily temper increased the exquisiteness of his torment.
Temper
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.
Remember with what mildAnd gracious temper he both heared and judged.
The consequents of a certain ethical temper.
Temper
Calmness of mind; moderation; equanimity; composure; as, to keep one's temper.
To fall with dignity, with temper rise.
Restore yourselves to your tempers, fathers.
Temper
Heat of mind or passion; irritation; proneness to anger; - in a reproachful sense.
Temper
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.
Temper
Middle state or course; mean; medium.
The perfect lawgiver is a just temper between the mere man of theory, who can see nothing but general principles, and the mere man of business, who can see nothing but particular circumstances.
Temper
Milk of lime, or other substance, employed in the process formerly used to clarify sugar.
Temper
A sudden outburst of anger;
His temper sparked like damp firewood
Temper
A characteristic (habitual or relatively temporary) state of feeling;
Whether he praised or cursed me depended on his temper at the time
He was in a bad humor
Temper
A disposition to exhibit uncontrolled anger;
His temper was well known to all his employees
Temper
The elasticity and hardness of a metal object; its ability to absorb considerable energy before cracking
Temper
Toughen (steel or glass) by a process of gradually heating and cooling;
Temper glass
Temper
Harden by reheating and cooling in oil;
Temper steel
Temper
Adjust the pitch (of pianos)
Temper
Make more temperate, acceptable, or suitable by adding something else; moderate;
She tempered her criticism
Temper
Restrain or temper
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