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Webster 1913 Edition


damper

damp′er

(dăm′pẽr)
,
Noun.
That which damps or checks;
as:
(a)
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.
(b)
A contrivance, as in a pianoforte, to deaden vibrations; or, as in other pieces of mechanism, to check some action at a particular time.
Nor did Sabrina’s presence seem to act as any
damper
at the modest little festivities.
W. Black.
Damp′ish-ly
,
adv.
Damp′ish-ness
,
Noun.

Webster 1828 Edition


Damper

DAMP'ER

,
Noun.
1. That which damps or checks; a valve or sliding plate in a furnace to stop or lessen the quantity of air admitted, and thus to regulate the heat or extinguish the fire.
2.
A part of a piano-forte, by which the sound is deadened.

Definition 2024


damper

damper

English

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 0-424-00034-2,
      The farm-men usually bake their flour into flat cakes, which they call dampers, and cook these in the ashes.
    • Rudyard Kipling, His Gift
      [] an open wood fire, from the ashes of which he drew forth (talking all the while) wonderful hot cakes called "dampers" []

Translations

Adjective

damper

  1. comparative form of damp: more damp

Anagrams


Danish

Etymology 1

A calque of the English steamer.

Noun

damper c (singular definite damperen, plural indefinite dampere)

  1. steamer, steamboat, steamship
Inflection
Synonyms

Etymology 2

See dampe.

Verb

damper

  1. present tense of dampe

Norwegian Bokmål

Noun

damper m

  1. indefinite plural of damp