damper

Tanımlar (İngilizce)

1. isim 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. isim 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. isim Something that kills the mood.

   “Nor did Sabrina′s presence seem to act as any damper at the modest little festivities.”

4. isim A device that decreases the oscillations of a system.
5. isim A shock absorber.

   “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. isim 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.”

7. isim A 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.”

8. sıfat comparative form of damp: more damp