damper
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English [edit]
Etymology [edit]
Noun [edit]
damper (plural dampers)
- 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.
- (Can we find and add a quotation of Rudyard Kipling, His Gift to this entry?)
- 1827, Peter Cunningham, Two Years in New South Wales, ii.190, quoted in G. A. Wilkes, A Dictionary of Australian Colloquialisms, 1978, ISBN 0-424-00034-2,
- The farm-men usually bake their flour into flat cakes, which they call dampers, and cook these in the ashes.
Translations [edit]
valve or movable plate used to regulate flow of air
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contrivance to deaden vibrations
thing that kills the mood
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Adjective [edit]
damper
- comparative form of damp: more damp
Anagrams [edit]
Danish [edit]
Etymology 1 [edit]
A calque of the English steamer.
Noun [edit]
damper c (singular definite damperen, plural indefinite dampere)
Inflection [edit]
Inflection of damper
Synonyms [edit]
Etymology 2 [edit]
See dampe.
Verb [edit]
damper
- present of dampe
