damper
English
Pronunciation
- (US) enPR: dămp′ər, IPA(key): /ˈdæmpɚ/
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Noun
damper (plural dampers)
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Tuned mass oscillations damper.
- Something that damps or checks:
- A valve or movable plate in the flue or other part of a stove, furnace, etc., used to check or regulate the draught of air.
- A contrivance (sordine), as in a pianoforte, to deaden vibrations; or, as in other pieces of mechanism, to check some action at a particular time.
- Something that kills the mood.
- (Can we date this quote?) W. Black
- Nor did Sabrina′s presence seem to act as any damper at the modest little festivities.
- (Can we date this quote?) W. Black
- A device that decreases the oscillations of a system.
- (chiefly Australia) Bread made from a basic recipe of flour, water, milk, and salt, but without yeast.
- 1827, Peter Cunningham, Two Years in New South Wales, ii.190, quoted in G. A. Wilkes, A Dictionary of Australian Colloquialisms, 1978, →ISBN,
- The farm-men usually bake their flour into flat cakes, which they call dampers, and cook these in the ashes.
- 1938, William Ferguson and John Patten, ‘Aborigines Claim Citizen Rights!’, in Heiss & Minter (eds.), Macquarie PEN Anthology of Aboriginal Literature, Allen & Unwin 2008, p. 31:
- You hypocritically claim that you are trying to ‘protect’ us; but your modern policy of ‘protection’ (so-called) is killing us off just as surely as the pioneer policy of giving us poisoned damper and shooting us down like dingoes!
- 1827, Peter Cunningham, Two Years in New South Wales, ii.190, quoted in G. A. Wilkes, A Dictionary of Australian Colloquialisms, 1978, →ISBN,
Derived terms
Derived terms
Translations
valve or movable plate used to regulate flow of air
contrivance to deaden vibrations
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Norwegian Bokmål
Noun
damper m (definite singular damperen, indefinite plural dampere, definite plural damperne)
- a steamer (steamship, steamboat)
Synonyms
- dampbåt, dampskip
Derived terms
Etymology 2
Etymology 3
See also
- dampar (Nynorsk)
References
- “damper” in The Bokmål Dictionary.
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