Damper

Pronunciation

• US enPR: dămp′ər, IPA: /ˈdæmpÉš/

Origin

From damp + -er.

Full definition of damper

Noun

1. Something that damps or checks:
1. 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.
2. 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.
3. Something that kills the mood.
• unknown date W. BlackNor did Sabrina′s presence seem to act as any damper at the modest little festivities.
4. A device that decreases the oscillations of a system.
5. (chiefly 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 0-424-00034-2,The farm-men usually bake their flour into flat cakes, which they call dampers, and cook these in the ashes.

Adjective

1. damper

   (comparative of damp)

Anagrams

• ramped