dampernoun詞源 1/ˈdæmpɚ/

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  Something that damps or checks:

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  Something that damps or checks:

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  Something that damps or checks:

  • Nor did Sabrina′s presence seem to act as any damper at the modest little festivities.
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  Something that damps or checks:

  • 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.
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  engineeringmechanicalmechanical-engineeringSomething that damps or checks:

  • 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.
  • 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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  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.
  • The flour bespattering Squeaker's now neglected clothes spoke eloquently of his clumsy efforts at damper making.
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  obsoleteslangA 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.

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• damp