damper en · NOUN · etymology 1
Pronunciation
Etymology
From damp (verb) + -er. The name of the type of bread is first attested in 1825, and originally likely refers to damping the appetite.
Meanings
- (countable, uncountable) 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.
- (countable, uncountable) Something that damps or checks: ▸ 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.
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(countable, uncountable) Something that damps or checks: ▸ Something that kills the mood.
Nor did Sabrina′s presence seem to act as any damper at the modest little festivities.
1887, William Black, Sabina Zembra:
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(countable, uncountable) Something that damps or checks: ▸ A device that decreases the oscillations of a system.
Figure 7.13 shows stability diagrams that illustrate the effect of the magnitude of the damping coefficient of the damper on the flutter of the pipe.
2019, Yoshihiko Sugiyama, Mikael A. Langthjem, Kazuo Katayama, Dynamic Stability of Columns Under Nonconservative Forces, page 97:
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(countable, uncountable) Something that damps or checks: ▸ A shock absorber.
In general, steel springs were stipulated for primary suspension, although rubber was accepted for auxiliary springing; hydraulic dampers were specified and the use of laminated springs ruled out.
1960 December, “The first hundred 25 kV a.c. electric locomotives for B.R.”, in Trains Illustrated, page 726:However, complaints quickly surfaced about the ride quality of the SIG BT41 bogies, which was only cured by the fitting of additional dampers to the bogies and couplers.
2022 September 21, Ben Jones, “IC225s: the Electras go gliding on”, in RAIL, number 966, page 40:
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(Australia, New-Zealand, countable, uncountable) Bread made from a basic recipe of flour, water, milk, and salt, but without yeast.
The flour bespattering Squeaker's now neglected clothes spoke eloquently of his clumsy efforts at damper making.
1902, Barbara Baynton, edited by Sally Krimmer and Alan Lawson, Bush Studies (Portable Australian Authors: Barbara Baynton), St Lucia: University of Queensland Press, published 1980, page 15: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!
1938, William Ferguson, John Patten, “Aborigines Claim Citizen Rights!”, in Anita Heiss, Peter Minter, editors, Macquarie PEN Anthology of Aboriginal Literature, Allen & Unwin, published 2008, page 31:1827, 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.
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(UK, countable, obsolete, slang, uncountable) A shop till.
A certain class of 'City Arabs' do nothing but steal provisions from shop doors and sell them for one-tenth of their value, or less, […] while a fourth again do nothing but "draw the dampers," i. e. steal from shop-tills.
1853, Joseph Kay, The Condition and Education of Poor Children in English and in German Towns, page 20:
Forms
| Spelling | Features | Labels | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| dampers | Number=Plur | lexicographic |
Deriveds
put a damper on · overdamper · damper winding · fire damper · tuned mass damper · underdamper · damperless · smoke damper · viscous damper · seismic damper · yaw damper
Translations (37)
ro ventil (valve or movable plate used to regulate flow of air) · es regulador (valve or movable plate used to regulate flow of air) · ru дымова́я засло́нка (valve or movable plate used to regulate flow of air) · he מרסן (contrivance to deaden vibrations) · ru регуля́тор тя́ги (valve or movable plate used to regulate flow of air) · pl tłumik (contrivance to deaden vibrations) · nl dampkap (valve or movable plate used to regulate flow of air) · fr sourdine (contrivance to deaden vibrations) · ru де́мпфер (contrivance to deaden vibrations) · it farfalla (valve or movable plate used to regulate flow of air) · ro supapă (valve or movable plate used to regulate flow of air) · es reductor (valve or movable plate used to regulate flow of air) · cs hradítko (valve or movable plate used to regulate flow of air) · it smorzatore (valve or movable plate used to regulate flow of air) · it rovinare la festa (thing that kills the mood) · it smorzatore (contrivance to deaden vibrations) · cs klapka (valve or movable plate used to regulate flow of air) · sv spjäll (valve or movable plate used to regulate flow of air) · es amortiguador (contrivance to deaden vibrations) · ru гаситель колебаний (contrivance to deaden vibrations) · mi parāoa pāhūhū (A simple type of bread) · pl przepustnica (valve or movable plate used to regulate flow of air) · nl domper (thing that kills the mood) · sv dämpare (contrivance to deaden vibrations) · grc πνιγεύς (valve or movable plate used to regulate flow of air) · nl demper (contrivance to deaden vibrations) · pl chleb bez drożdży (A simple type of bread) · ru вью́шка (valve or movable plate used to regulate flow of air) · pl niszczyciel amtosfery (thing that kills the mood) · fi vaimennin (contrivance to deaden vibrations) · de Dämpfer (contrivance to deaden vibrations) · ru амортизатор (contrivance to deaden vibrations) · uk в'ю́шка (valve or movable plate used to regulate flow of air) · de Dämpfer (thing that kills the mood) · fi pelti (valve or movable plate used to regulate flow of air) · nl afzuigkap (valve or movable plate used to regulate flow of air) · de Luftklappe (valve or movable plate used to regulate flow of air)