damper

English

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Etymology

From damp +‎ -er.

Noun

damper (plural dampers)

1. Something that damps or checks:
   1. 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.
   2. 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.
   3. 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.

   4. A device that decreases the oscillations of a system.
2. (Australian) 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 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

valve or movable plate uused to regulate flow of air

Dutch: dampkap f., afzuigkap f.

contrivance to deaden vibrations

Dutch: , demper m.

thing that kills the mood

Dutch: domper m.

Adjective

damper

1. comparative form of damp: more damp

Anagrams

• ramped

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Danish

Etymology 1

A calque of the English steamer.

Noun

damper c. (singular definite damperen, plural indefinite dampere)

1. steamer, steamboat, steamship

Inflection

    Inflection of damper

common gender	Singular		Plural
	indefinite	definite	indefinite	definite
nominative, dative and accusative	damper	damperen	dampere	damperne
genitive	dampers	damperens	damperes	dampernes

Synonyms

• dampskib

Etymology 2

See dampe.

Verb

damper

1. present of dampe