damper

English

Etymology

From damp +‎ -er.

Pronunciation

• enPR: dămp′ər, IPA^(key): /ˈdæmpɚ/

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Noun

damper (plural dampers)

Tuned mass oscillations damper.

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. (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!

Derived terms

• put a damper on

Translations

valve or movable plate used to regulate flow of air

• Czech: hradítko n, klapka f
• Dutch: dampkap (nl) f, afzuigkap (nl) f
• Finnish: pelti (fi)
• German: Luftklappe f
• Greek:

  Ancient: πνιγεύς m (pnigeús)

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• Italian: smorzatore m, farfalla (it) f
• Romanian: ventil (ro) n, supapă (ro) f
• Russian: регуля́тор тя́ги m (reguljátor tjági), дымова́я засло́нка f (dymovája zaslónka), вью́шка (ru) f (vʹjúška)
• Swedish: spjäll (sv) n

contrivance to deaden vibrations

• Dutch: , demper (nl) m
• Finnish: vaimennin (fi)
• German: Dämpfer (de) m
• Hebrew: מרסן m (merasén)
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• Italian: smorzatore m
• Russian: де́мпфер (ru) f (dɛ́mpfer), амортизатор (ru) (amortizator), гаситель колебаний (ru) (gasitelʹ kolebanij)
• Swedish: dämpare (sv)

thing that kills the mood

• Dutch: domper (nl) m
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Adjective

damper

1. comparative form of damp: more damp

Anagrams

• deramp, 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

Declension of damper

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

Synonyms

• dampskib

Etymology 2

See dampe.

Verb

damper

1. (deprecated template usage) present of dampe

References

• “damper” in Den Danske Ordbog

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Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology 1

From damp +‎ -er

Noun

damper m (definite singular damperen, indefinite plural dampere, definite plural damperne)

1. a steamer (steamship, steamboat)

Synonyms

• dampbåt, dampskip

Derived terms

• hjuldamper

Etymology 2

Noun

damper m

1. indefinite plural of damp

Etymology 3

Verb

damper

1. (deprecated template usage) present of dampe

See also

• dampar (Nynorsk)

References

• “damper” in The Bokmål Dictionary.