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Definitions: Damper |
DamperNoun1. A movable iron plate that regulates the draft in a stove or chimney or furnace. 2. A device that decreases the amplitude of electronic, mechanical, acoustical, or aerodynamic oscillations. 3. A depressing restraint; "rain put a damper on our picnic plans". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "damper" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1830. (references) |
| Domain | Definitions |
Personal Care & Hotels | A device to add moisture to air. Source: European Union. (references) |
Building & Civil Engineering | Register: an outlet into a room from a ventilating duct, provided with a -- to regulate the volume of warm air discharged into it. Source: European Union. (references) |
Computing | Device which allows kinetic energy E=I/2mv2 to be dissipated as heat. Source: European Union. (references) |
Electrical Engineering | A diode used in the horizontal deflection current of a television receiver to make the sawtooth deflection current decrease smoothly to zero instead of oscillating at zero. Source: European Union. (references) |
Energy | A movable plate used to control air flow; in a wood stove or fireplace, used to control the amount and direction of air going to the fire. (references) |
Literature | Damper (A). A snap before dinner, which damps or takes off the edge, of appetite. "That's a damper" also means a wet-blanket influence, a rebuff which damps or cools one's courage. Also a large thin cake of flour and water baked in hot ashes. The mute of a stringed instrument to deaden the sound is also called a "damper." Source: Brewer's Dictionary. |
Mining | A device for regulating the passage of gases. Source: European Union. (references) |
| Liquid-sealed valve between the collecting main and the ascension pipe of a coke oven. Source: European Union. (references) | |
Personal Care & Hotels | A device capable of regulating the amount of air flowing in a duct. Source: European Union. (references) |
Post & Telecom | Device for progressive reduction in amplitude, of oscillations caused by circuit conditions. Source: European Union. (references) |
Publishing & Graphic Arts | Cloth-covered roller that distributes the damping solution received from the ductor roller of the damping unit to the lithographic press plate. Source: European Union. (references) |
Slang in 1811 | DAMPER. A luncheon, or snap before dinner: so called from its damping, or allaying, the appetite; eating and drinking, being, as the proverb wisely observes, apt to take away the appetite. Source: 1811 Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Dejection | Affliction; sorry sight; memento mori; damper, wet blanket, Job's comforter. |
Dissuasion | Discouragement, damper, wet blanket; disillusionment, disenchantment. |
Food | Alligator pear, apple; apple slump; artichoke; ashcake, griddlecake, pancake, flapjack; atole, avocado, banana, beche de mer, barbecue, beefsteak; beet root; blackberry, blancmange, bloater, bouilli, bouillon, breadfruit, chop suey; chowder, chupatty, clam, compote, damper, fish, frumenty, grapes, hasty pudding, ice cream, lettuce, mango, mangosteen, mince pie, oatmeal, oyster, pineapple, porridge, porterhouse steak, salmis, sauerkraut, sea slug, sturgeon ("Albany beef"), succotash, supawn, trepang, vanilla, waffle, walnut. |
Hindrance | Damper, wet blanket, hinderer, marplot, killjoy; party pooper; party crasher, interloper. |
Refrigerator | Noun: refrigerator, refrigeratory; frigidarium; cold storage, cold room, cold laboratory; icehouse, icepail, icebag, icebox; cooler, damper, polyurethane cooler; wine cooler. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Damper |
| English words defined with "damper": cushion ♦ damper block, dash-pot ♦ piano damper ♦ shock, shock absorber, Sordine. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "damper": ascension pipe cap, ascension pipe lid, ASPHALT-HEATER TENDER, Automatic Damper ♦ cap valve, CARBON-FURNACE OPERATOR ♦ damper valve, drier operator ♦ elbow cover, equivalent length ♦ FURNACE OPERATOR ♦ GERMINATION WORKER, gooseneck cap, gooseneck damper ♦ liquor valve ♦ OIL-BURNER-SERVICER-AND-INSTALLER, oscillation damper ♦ roll damper, ROTARY-KILN OPERATOR ♦ standpipe lid ♦ tuned damper. (references) |
| Non-English Usage: "Damper" is also a word in the following language with the English translation in parentheses. Portuguese (ash-pit). |
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Screenplays | That does put a damper on our relationship. (The Princess Bride; writing credit: William Goldman) Well the lid's loose, maybe the damper door? (I Spy; writing credit: James B. Allardice) | |
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Les Miserables | Hugo, Victor | She raised her bare arm and clung to the damper of the stove as if she were staggered. |
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Business | Similarly, the local recession has put a damper on investment generally. (references) | |
Other pollution control equipment used at power plants are electrostatic precipitator, back filter, dry low-NOx burner and over-fire damper. (references) | ||
Newer power plants have stricter pollution requirements and these can be met through a variety of methods including using relatively clean fuel sources, installing a FGDs and using a dry low-NOX burner or over-fire damper to reduce nitrogen oxide emissions. (references) | ||
Economic History | Maldives | Maldives welcomes foreign investment, although the general lack of codified law acts as somewhat of a damper. (references) |
Italy | While the recent economic recession put a damper on luxury food sales and expensive restaurant visits, Italy still spends more per capita on food than any other EU country except Portugal. (references) | |
Philippines | In addition, political developments, including demonstrations against the new President in early May, and terrorist actions in May and June, have put a further damper on the business climate and discouraged foreign investment. (references) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| "Damper" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 50.53% of the time. "Damper" is used about 95 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 50.53% | 48 | 49,194 |
| Adjective (comparative) | 49.47% | 47 | 49,740 |
| Total | 100.00% | 95 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expressions using "damper": air damper ♦ cast a damper on smb. ♦ chimney damper ♦ damper block ♦ damper valve ♦ gooseneck damper ♦ oscillation damper ♦ piano damper ♦ roll damper ♦ shimmy damper ♦ vibration damper. Additional references. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
steering damper | 66 |
damper | 55 |
damper scotts steering | 19 |
damper scotts | 17 |
fire damper | 15 |
actuator damper | 12 |
damper dynamometer | 11 |
fireplace damper | 10 |
ohlins damper | 10 |
motorcycle steering damper | 10 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "damper"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | zhurmëmbytës (muffle, muffler, silencer), njomës, kllapë (clip, cog, cramp, dovetail, mortise, parenthesis, rabbet, scarf, valve), flutur (butterfly, fleeting, spinner), ai që brengos. (various references) | |
Arabic | الموروث للكآبة, المثبط, الصمام المنظم. (various references) | |
Bulgarian | угнетител, заглушител (baffle, muffler, noise-killer, silencer), предмет за мокрене на марки, пита (bannock, cake, disk, loaf). (various references) | |
Chinese | 制音器. (various references) | |
Czech | dusítko (mute), tlumiè (extinguisher, muffler, shock absorber, silencer), ledová sprcha, šoupátko. (various references) | |
Danish | daemper (dashpot), dæmper (dashpot, dash-pot, dimmer, light regulator, rheostat), tjaerelaas (ascension pipe valve, damper valve, gooseneck damper, liquor valve, Pullman vave), spjaeld (baffle, louvre), spjæld (throttle), skydespjæld, lukkespjæld, luftbefugter (humidifier, moistener), hydraulikventil (ascension pipe valve, damper valve, gooseneck damper, liquor valve, Pullman vave), fugtevalse (dampener, dampening roller, damping roller), befugter (croupaire, humidifier, moistener, nebulizer). (various references) | |
Dutch | demper (dashpot, dash-pot, theatre dimmer), vochtrol (dampener, dampening roller, damping roller), trekregelaar, schokbreker (buffer, shock absorber, shock-absorber), rookschuif, regelafsluiter, luchtregelklep, luchtbevochtiger (humidifier, moistener), klimpijpschotelklep (ascension pipe valve, damper valve, gooseneck damper, liquor valve, Pullman vave), jalouzieklep, bevochtigingsrol (dampener, dampening roller, damping roller), bevochtigingsinrichting (humidifier, moistener), bevochtiger (humidifier, moistener, surface active agent, wetting agent). (various references) | |
Farsi | نم زن , عایق (Brake, Impediment, Insulator, Pawl), خفه کن , الت میزان کردن جریان هوا. (various references) | |
Finnish | vaimennin (attenuator, baffler, silencer), säätöpelti, nousuputken venttiili (ascension pipe valve, damper valve, gooseneck damper, liquor valve, Pullman vave), kaasusäiliön venttiili (ascension pipe valve, damper valve, gooseneck damper, liquor valve, Pullman vave). (various references) | |
French | amortisseur (dash pot, dashpot, dash-pot, oscillation damper). (various references) | |
German | dämpfer (attenuator, dampers, dashpot, dash-pot, muffle, muffler, mute, muting, steamer), Stoßdämpfer (antishock, antishock pad, buffers, hurter, shock absorber, shocker), schieber (bedpan, black marketeer, crank block, driving block, fixer, fulcrum slide, grafter, gun runner, pusher, racketeer, shuffle, slide, slider, sliders, sliding block, wangler, wanglers), luftklappe (ventilating shutter), Dampfer (boat, S/S, steam ship, steamer, steamers, steamship). (various references) | |
Greek | κλαπέτο (clack valve, clapper, flap, lift-up drawer front, valve), ρυθμιστής αέρος, συσκευή αύξησης της υγρασίας (humidifier, moistener), βαλβίς ανοδικού αγωγού (ascension pipe valve, damper valve, gooseneck damper, liquor valve, Pullman vave), μετριάζων (remitter), μετριαστήσ (abater, mitigator, moderator, palliator, softer), υγραίνων, υγροποιητής (humidifier, moistener), εξασθενητής (attenuator, reducer), αποσβέστης (spoiler), αποσβεστήρασ (amortisseur), αποσβεστήρας (buffer, shock absorber), τάμπερ, ολισθαίνων καταχωρητήρας, ολισθαίνων ρυθμιστής ροής αέρα κλιβάνου. (various references) | |
Hebrew | מ חת (absorber, attenuator), שכך. (various references) | |
Hungarian | jeges zuhany, ünneprontó (kill-joy, spoil-sport), bélyegnedvesítő, csillapítótekercs (damper winding), elcsüggesztő esemény, elkedvetlenítő esemény, elzáró (obturating, occlusive, stopper), fogyasztás (consumerism, consumption, diminution, slenderizing), fojtószelep (mixture throttle, throttle, throttle valve), hőszabályozó, hangfogó (mute, silencer, sordino, sourdine), égésszabályzó, innivaló (something to drink), tűzelzáró fémlap, légelzáró retesz, lökésgátló (recoil compensator, shock absorber), laktató étel (stodge), lengéscsillapító, lengésszabályozó, rezgéscsillapító (vibration damper), szabályozó retesz, szabályozó szelep (throttle, throttle valve), szelep (regulation siphon, valve, ventil), szikracsillapító, szordínó, hangtompító (muffler, silencer). (various references) | |
Italian | ammortizzatore (absorber, buffer, dashpot, dash-pot, oscillation damper, shock absorber). (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | 止音器 , 弱音器 (mute). (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | しお"き, じゃくお"き (mute). (various references) | |
Korean | 차단기 (Breaker, breakers). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | amperday.(various references) | |
Portuguese | amortecedor (absorber, bearer, bolster, buffer, bumper, cushion, dashpot, dash-pot, mufti, oscillation damper, pad, shock absorber, shock absorbing). (various references) | |
Romanian | domeniu (area, branch, demesne, department, direction, domain, estate, field, kingdom, line, parish, realm, scope, space, sphere), strica plãcerea cuiva, atenuator, amortizor (buffer, bumper, fender, shock). (various references) | |
Russian | заслонка (cap, door, flap, register, shutter, sliding, valve). (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | demfer, prigušivač (absorber, baffler, choke, muffler, silencer). (various references) | |
Spanish | diodo amortiguador, válvula del tubo montante (ascension pipe valve, damper valve, gooseneck damper, liquor valve, Pullman vave), válvula amortiguadora, registro de tiro, registro de corredera, humectador (humidifier, moistener), apagador (extinguisher, lawyers's wig, shaggy cap), amortiguador (absorber, air cushion, buffer, cushioning, dash pot, dashpot, dash-pot, muffler, oscillation damper, shock absorber, shock absorbing, shock-absorber, stop). (various references) | |
Swedish | spjäll (register, throttle, trottle), dämpare (attenuator, check, pad). (various references) | |
Turkish | titreşim azaltan parça, amortisör (shock absorber), üzen kişi, üzen şey. (various references) | |
Ukranian | глушитель (baffle, baffler, muffler, silencer), амортизатор (air cushion, buffer), демпфер (cataract), димова заслінка. (various references) | |
Vietnamese | việc l m mất vui, việc l m chán nản, van khói kiểu lá chắn, người l m ngã lòng, người l m mất vui (killjoy), người l m cụt hứng, cái tắt dao động, cái chống rung, bộ giảm xóc. (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "damper": dampers. (additional references) | |
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"Damper" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Amper, D'ambert, dambor, Damery, damner, dampe, dampi, dampier, Dampierre, Dampiet, dampner, daper, daumer, dauper, Daymer, Demner, dumperd, Ramper. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "damper" (pronounced da"mper) |
| 4 | -a" m p er | camper, hamper, pamper, scamper, Stamper, tamper. |
| 3 | -m p er | bumper, distemper, dumper, jumper, lumper, mumper, shrimper, simper, swamper, temper, Thumper, whimper. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: ramped. | |
| Words within the letters "a-d-e-m-p-r" | |
-1 letter: armed, derma, drape, dream, madre, padre, pared, raped, remap. | |
-2 letters: aped, aper, dame, damp, dare, dear, derm, dram, made, mare, mead, pard, pare, pear, perm, pram, ramp, rape, read, ream, reap. | |
-3 letters: amp, ape, are, arm, dam, dap, ear, era, mad, mae, map, mar, med, pad, pam, par, pea, ped, per, rad, ram, rap, red, rem, rep. | |
-4 letters: ad, ae, am, ar, de, ed, em, er, ma, me, pa, pe, re. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-d-e-m-p-r" | |
+1 letter: cramped, dampers, premade, tramped. | |
+2 letters: compadre, compared, dampener, firedamp, hampered, impaired, imparked, imparted, pampered, pomander, preadmit, prearmed, pyoderma, rampaged, remapped, revamped, tampered, trampled. | |
+3 letters: ampersand, compadres, comparted, dampeners, deprogram, epidermal, firedamps, harumphed, impearled, madrepore, misparsed, misparted, pachyderm, paramedic, permeated, pomanders, preadmits, prewarmed, programed, promenade, pyodermas, pyramided, ramparted, reprimand, resampled, restamped, scampered, spermatid, stampeder. | |
+4 letters: ampersands, attempered, camelopard, compradore, demography, department, deprograms, epicardium, harrumphed, hypermedia, hypodermal, imparadise, impetrated, imprecated, madrepores, madreporic, misphrased, pachyderms, palindrome, paramedics, pockmarked, postmarked, praesidium, premedical, prestamped, proclaimed, programmed, promenaded, promenader, promenades, reprimands, semaphored, spermatids, stampeders, unhampered, unimpaired. | |
+5 letters: atmosphered, camelopards, camphorated, compradores, comradeship, demographer, demographic, departments, depravement, deprogramed, desipramine, dimercaprol, hypermedias, imparadised, imparadises, impregnated, madreporian, madreporite, monographed, palindromes, paramedical, pericardium, pilgrimaged, pompadoured, praesidiums, preadmitted, predicament, predominant, predominate, premeasured, premedieval, premeditate, proctodaeum, promenaders, promenading, promulgated, reattempted, reimplanted, reprimanded, reprogramed, spermicidal. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro. | |
Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)44 61 6D 70 65 72 |
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| American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)
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| Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)
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| Braille (1829, in France) (references)
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Morse Code (1836) (references)-.. .- -- .--. . .-. |
| Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01000100 01100001 01101101 01110000 01100101 01110010 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)D a m p e r |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0044 0061 006D 0070 0065 0072 |
| British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)386779827184 |
| 1. Definition 2. Crosswords 3. Usage: Modern 4. Usage: Commercial | 5. Images: Slideshow 6. Quotations: Fiction 7. Quotations: Non-fiction 8. Usage Frequency | 9. Expressions 10. Expressions: Internet 11. Translations: Modern 12. Derivations | 13. Rhymes 14. Anagrams 15. Orthography 16. Bibliography |
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