damper

名词 n. 形容词 adj.
中文释义
美 /ˈdæmpɚ/

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. 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
  2. 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. countable,uncountable
  3. Something that damps or checks:; Something that kills the mood. countable,uncountable
    — Nor did Sabrina′s presence seem to act as any damper at the modest little festivities.
  4. Something that damps or checks:; A device that decreases the oscillations of a system. countable,uncountable
  5. Something that damps or checks:; A shock absorber. countable,uncountable
    — 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.
  6. Bread made from a basic recipe of flour, water, milk, and salt, but without yeast. Australia,New-Zealand,countable,uncountable
    — 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.
  7. A shop till. UK,countable,obsolete,slang,uncountable
    — 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.
形容词 adj.
  1. comparative form of damp: more damp comparative,form-of

词形变化

dampers plural

词汇关系

衍生词
damperless damper winding fire damper overdamper put a damper on seismic damper tuned mass damper underdamper viscous damper yaw damper

词源

词源 1
From damp (verb) + -er.
The name of the type of bread is first attested in 1825, and originally likely refers to damping the appetite.
词源 2
Etymology tree
English damp
English -er
English damper
From damp (adjective) + -er.
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