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

• ramped

Danish

Etymology 1

A calque of the English steamer.

Noun

damper c (singular definite damperen, plural indefinite dampere)

1. steamer, steamboat, steamship

Inflection

Synonyms

• dampskib

Etymology 2

See dampe.

Verb

damper

1. present tense of dampe

Norwegian Bokmål

Noun

damper m

1. indefinite plural of damp