Tumped vs Temped - What's the difference?
tumped | temped |
(tump)
(British, rare) A mound or hillock.
* 1974 , Guy Davenport, Tatlin! :
(Southern US) to bump, knock (usually used with "over", possibly a combination of "tip" and "dump")
(Southern US) To fall over.
(US, dialect) To draw or drag, as a deer or other animal after it has been killed.
(temp)
temperature
temporary
a temporary employee, usually in an office
(computing, informal, mostly, attributive) a temporary storage location
* 2001 , John Y. Hsu, Computer Architecture: Software Aspects, Coding, and Hardware
* 2014 , Andrew W. Appel, Program Logics for Certified Compilers (page 162)
To work as a temporary employee.
* 2007 , , 01:24:50
*:--I temp for money, but it's not my main thing. I write plays.
As verbs the difference between tumped and temped
is that tumped is (tump) while temped is (temp).tumped
English
Verb
(head)tump
English
Etymology 1
(etyl) twmp, twm.Noun
(en noun)- The island was two rocks grey as twilight between which a tump of iron loam ribbed with flint bore a stand of fir and spruce.
- (Ainsworth)
Etymology 2
Possibly from .Verb
(en verb)- Don't tump that bucket over!
- (Bartlett)
Etymology 3
From (etyl); see tumpline for more.temped
English
Verb
(head)temp
English
(wikipedia temp)Abbreviation
(Abbreviation) (head)Noun
(en noun)- Consequently, the unit executes and places the result in a temp register.
- That is, r -values include numeric constants, nonaddressable local variables (temps )