damper
1Damper — Damper, der auf heißer Kohlenasche gebacken wird. Damper stellt eine Mischung einer Brotherstellung der Aborigines und der Europäer in Australien dar. Dabei wird die jahrtausendealte Tradition des Brotbackens der Aborigines mit der… …
2damper — ► NOUN 1) a pad silencing a piano string. 2) a device for reducing vibration or oscillation. 3) a movable metal plate in a flue or chimney, used to regulate the draught. ● put a damper on Cf. ↑put a damper on …
3damper — [dam′pər] n. [see DAMP] 1. anything that deadens or depresses 2. a movable plate or valve in the flue of a stove or furnace, for controlling the draft 3. a device to check vibration in the strings of a stringed keyboard instrument 4. a device for …
4damper — damp er (d[a^]m p[ e]r), n. That which damps or checks; as: (a) 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. (b) A contrivance, as in a pianoforte, to deaden… …
5damper — ● damper nom masculin (anglais damper, amortisseur) Dispositif placé au bout du vilebrequin d un moteur thermique pour en amortir les vibrations …
6damper — I (depressant) noun backset, bleakness, cheerlessness, chill, cloud, crushed spirits, depressing influence, discouragement, disheartener, downheartedness, feeling of dejection, feeling of depression, gloom, glumness, heaviness, heaviness of… …
7damper — of a piano, 1783; of a chimney, 1788; agent noun from DAMP (Cf. damp) (q.v.). Either or both led to various figurative senses …
8damper — dàmper (dèmper) m DEFINICIJA reg., v. kiper ETIMOLOGIJA engl. dumper: kiper …
9Damper — A damper is a device that deadens, restrains, or depresses. Damper may refer to: Dashpot, a type of hydraulic or mechanical damper, Shock absorber (British or technical use: damper), a mechanical device designed to dissipate kinetic energy In… …
10damper — [1] A friction device sometimes called a shock absorber. Used for controlling and damping spring oscillations. The springs actually absorb road shocks; the dampers convert the energy imparted to the springs into thermal energy (by friction),… …
