tamping
present participle oftamp
tamp
verb[T]
uk/tæmp/us/tæmp/topresssomething such assoilortobaccodownfirmly
Synonym
pack
Squeezing and grinding
- compact
- compression
- concertina
- constrict
- constriction
- crush
- depress
- gnashyourteethidiom
- ground
- mill
- noncompressible
- pinch
- pound
- presser
- pulp
- pulverization
- scrunch
- snap
- tamp
- unmilled
Examplesoftamping
tamping
In English, many past and present participles of verbs can be used as adjectives. Some of these examples may show the adjective use.
They are also used for transporting diesel powered equipment such as tracktampingmachines through tunnel sections.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.Attention focused on the costs and benefits oftampingthe ballast over the sleeper ends.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.This is, in the mechanized age, usually done by a ballasttampingmachine.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.This has the advantage of not disturbing the well-compacted ballast on the trackbed, astampingis likely to do.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.Thetampingbank behind the lining bogie has a vibrating motor and four arms for each rail.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.The amount of vapor pressure that builds up, and the temperature reached, are dependent on the grind and packing (tamping) of the grounds.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.The filling was usually left high, with final condensation --tampingdown -- occurring while the patient chewed food.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.Other work involved looking at thetampingof ballast, properties of subsoils, and rail prestressing.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.Some sources even list the goods manufactured by the company, i.e.,tampingbars, claw bars, picks, and shovels.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.Thetampingunit consists oftampingtools (arms or tines), a hydraulic vibration motor, a vibration shaft and an eccentric flywheel.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.With other hand, fill pot with moistened bark mix,tampingto firm.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.They had previously owned six othertampingmachines, which were acquired between 1959 and 1975.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.These tramways are quite advanced technically, with hand-me-down rails cascaded from the normal rails, remote-controlled brake vans, concrete sleepers in places, andtampingmachines in miniature.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.The mixture is consolidated into a mould using an air-driven, or electric,tampingdevice or vibration under pressure, which is much like the formation of natural sedimentary rock.
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- branchlet
- branch line
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- branch manager
- branch-manager
- branch off
- branch-off
- branch office
- branch off sth
- branch-off-sth
- branch of government
- branch of mathematics
- branch of physics
- branch of physics
- branch of science
- branch out
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- call (in) on someone
- call-in pay
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