Tamps

Word TAMPS
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Definitions and meanings of "Tamps"

What do we mean by tamps?

(blasting) To plug up with clay, earth, dry sand, sod, or other material, as a hole bored in a rock.

To drive in or pack down by frequent gentle strokes

To reduce the intensity of.

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The word "tamps" in example sentences

I’m drying my cheeks with scented tamps, that is how moving this song is… so without further ado… ❋ Unknown (2008)

A slower rate of inflation tamps down expectations the Reserve Bank of Australia will increase key interest rates at its next meeting, leading the Australian dollar to shed more than 1.6% against the greenback. ❋ Bradley Davis (2010)

Even so, Tuesday's milestones highlight the grim new reality for U.S. banks: slow economic growth that tamps down loan demand, low interest rates that pressure investment returns, volatile markets that inhibit risk-taking and tighter regulation that adds to bulging costs—not to mention a rising wave of populist, antibank sentiment. ❋ Liz Rappaport (2011)

Spending time with a BFF tamps down the "fight-or-flight" stress hormones and helps a woman's body create serotonin, which is the feel good brain neurotransmitter that keeps depression at bay and mood even. ❋ Nancy Deville (2011)

I listen, not with the growing sense of terror I had anticipated, but with a dullness that tamps down all possibility of visceral response. ❋ Md Meghan Maclean Weir (2011)

Mr. Jackson tamps the cigarette into an ashtray on the desk. ❋ Unknown (2010)

This means: Oxytocin tamps down activity in a part of the brain that's linked to depression and stress. ❋ Unknown (2010)

It is oxytocin that normalizes our thought patterns, tamps down brain-damaging responses of fear, aggression and anger. ❋ Unknown (2008)

Glenmark Pharmaceuticals Ltd. of Mumbai said last week it plans to begin human trials next year of a drug that tamps down a receptor activated by mustard and tear gas. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Former control-board chief Alice Rivlin tamps down control-board scare tactics Housing Complex ❋ Mike DeBonis (2010)

Shopping on a full stomach tamps down impulse spending and keeps you focused on your list. ❋ Unknown (2008)

He uses about one heaping tablespoon of espresso, which he tamps down firmly in the espresso-machine filter holder, and he runs it through for just 30 seconds to yield about one ounce of coffee. ❋ Unknown (2010)

A lot of CEOs I hear from will say, boy, we'd like you to get health care settled one way or another, but they will acknowledge that when they open up their latest invoice for their premiums and they find out that those premiums have gone up 20 percent or 25 percent, that's the kind of uncertainty that also tamps down business investment. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Exercise, like meditation, usually tamps down stress and encourages neuron growth, and indeed, the first rat's brain bloomed with new cells. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Paterson acknowledges he's got a lot of ground to make up and tamps down expectations. ❋ Unknown (2009)

If the surge tamps down violence, they would argue, it doesn't mean we can begin withdrawing down to near zero, as they are disingenuously allowing critics to believe, it means we can stay as a permanent army of occupation. ❋ Unknown (2009)

It is endowed with a heavy, syrupy and languid helping of pineapple, spices, carnation, iris, ylang ylang and a perfectly divine overdose of oakmoss that keeps it sophisticated and tamps down any excessive sweetness. ❋ Marina Geigert (2009)

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