damper
n. 令人扫兴的人, 增湿器, 阻尼器 [化] 减震器
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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.
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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.
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Something that damps or checks:
Something that kills the mood.
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Something that damps or checks:
A device that decreases the oscillations of a system.
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Something that damps or checks:
A shock absorber.
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Bread made from a basic recipe of flour, water, milk, and salt, but without yeast.
澳大利亚 新西兰 可数 不可数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.
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A shop till.
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comparative form of damp: more damp
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From damp (verb) + -er. The name of the type of bread is first attested in 1825, and originally likely refers to damping the appetite.
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