damper
English
Pronunciation
- (US) enPR: dămp′ər, IPA(key): /ˈdæmpɚ/
Audio (AU) (file) Audio (UK male) (file) - Rhymes: -æmpə(ɹ)
Etymology 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.[1]
Noun
damper (plural dampers)
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Tuned mass oscillations damper.
- 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.
- 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.
- Something that kills the mood.
- 1887, William Black, Sabina Zembra:
- Nor did Sabrina′s presence seem to act as any damper at the modest little festivities.
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- A device that decreases the oscillations of a system.
- (mechanical engineering) A shock absorber.
- 1960 December, “The first hundred 25 kV a.c. electric locomotives for B.R.”, in Trains Illustrated, page 726:
- 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.
- 2022 September 21, Ben Jones, “IC225s: the Electras go gliding on”, in RAIL, number 966, page 40:
- 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.
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- (chiefly New Zealand, 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,
- The farm-men usually bake their flour into flat cakes, which they call dampers, and cook these in the ashes.
- 1902, Barbara Baynton, Sally Krimmer; Alan Lawson, editors, Bush Studies (Portable Australian Authors: Barbara Baynton), St Lucia: University of Queensland Press, published 1980, page 15:
- The flour bespattering Squeaker's now neglected clothes spoke eloquently of his clumsy efforts at damper making.
- 1938, William Ferguson and John Patten, ‘Aborigines Claim Citizen Rights!’, in Heiss & Minter (eds.), Macquarie PEN Anthology of Aboriginal Literature, Allen & Unwin 2008, p. 31:
- 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!
- 1827, Peter Cunningham, Two Years in New South Wales, ii.190, quoted in G. A. Wilkes, A Dictionary of Australian Colloquialisms, 1978, →ISBN,
Derived terms
- damper winding
- fire damper
- put a damper on
- seismic damper
- tuned mass damper
- viscous damper
- yaw damper
Translations
valve or movable plate used to regulate flow of air
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contrivance to deaden vibrations
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thing that kills the mood
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A simple type of bread
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Etymology 2
From damp (adjective) + -er.
Adjective
damper
- comparative form of damp: more damp
References
- Richards, Kel (2015) The Story of Australian English, →ISBN
- “damper”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.
Anagrams
- deramp, ramped
Danish
Etymology 1
A calque of the English steamer.
Noun
damper c (singular definite damperen, plural indefinite dampere)
- steamer, steamboat, steamship
Inflection
Declension of damper
common gender | Singular | Plural | ||
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indefinite | definite | indefinite | definite | |
nominative | damper | damperen | dampere | damperne |
genitive | dampers | damperens | damperes | dampernes |
Synonyms
- dampskib
Etymology 2
See dampe.
Verb
damper
- present of dampe
References
- “damper” in Den Danske Ordbog
Norwegian Bokmål
Etymology 1
From damp + -er.
Noun
damper m (definite singular damperen, indefinite plural dampere, definite plural damperne)
- a steamer (steamship, steamboat)
Synonyms
- dampbåt, dampskip
Derived terms
- hjuldamper
Noun
damper m
- indefinite plural of damp
Verb
damper
- present of dampe
See also
- dampar (Nynorsk)
References
- “damper” in The Bokmål Dictionary.
Turkish
Etymology 1
From English dumper.
Noun
damper (definite accusative damperi, plural damperler)
- dump truck, dumper
Etymology 2
From English damper.
Noun
damper (definite accusative damperi, plural damperler)
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References
- Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007), “damper”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 1095