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damper
English
Etymology
From damp +? -er.
Pronunciation
- (US) enPR: d?mp??r, IPA(key): /?dæmp?/
Noun
damper (plural dampers)
- 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.
- 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.
- Something that kills the mood.
- A device that decreases the oscillations of a system.
- (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,
- The farm-men usually bake their flour into flat cakes, which they call dampers, and cook these in the ashes.
- 1938, William Ferguson and John Patten, ‘Aborigines Claim Citizen Rights!’, in Heiss & Minter (eds.), Macquarie PEN Anthology of Aboriginal Literature, Allen & Unwin 2008, p. 31:
- You hypocritically claim that you are trying to ‘protect’ us; but your modern policy of ‘protection’ (so-called) is killing us off just as surely as the pioneer policy of giving us poisoned damper and shooting us down like dingoes!
- 1827, Peter Cunningham, Two Years in New South Wales, ii.190, quoted in G. A. Wilkes, A Dictionary of Australian Colloquialisms, 1978, ?ISBN,
Derived terms
- put a damper on
Translations
Adjective
damper
- comparative form of damp: more damp
Anagrams
- deramp, ramped
Danish
Etymology 1
A calque of the English steamer.
Noun
damper c (singular definite damperen, plural indefinite dampere)
- steamer, steamboat, steamship
Inflection
Synonyms
- dampskib
Etymology 2
See dampe.
Verb
damper
- present of dampe
References
- “damper” in Den Danske Ordbog
Norwegian Bokmål
Etymology 1
From damp +? -er
Noun
damper m (definite singular damperen, indefinite plural dampere, definite plural damperne)
- a steamer (steamship, steamboat)
Synonyms
- dampbåt, dampskip
Derived terms
- hjuldamper
Etymology 2
Noun
damper m
- indefinite plural of damp
Etymology 3
Verb
damper
- present of dampe
See also
- dampar (Nynorsk)
References
- “damper” in The Bokmål Dictionary.
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louver
English
Alternative forms
- loover (archaic)
- louvre (mainly UK)
- lover (obsolete)
- luffer
Etymology
From Old French lover.
Pronunciation
- (UK) enPR: lo?o?v?, IPA(key): /?lu?v?/
- (General American) enPR: lo?o?v?r, IPA(key): /?lu?v?/
Noun
louver (plural louvers)
- A type of turret on the roof of certain medieval buildings designed to allow ventilation or the admission of light. [from 14th c.]
- 1596, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, VI.10:
- But darknesse dred and daily night did hover / Through all the inner parts, wherein they dwelt; / Ne lightned was with window, nor with lover, / But with continuall candle-light […].
- 1596, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, VI.10:
- (chiefly in the plural) A series of sloping overlapping slats or boards which admit air and light but exclude rain etc. [from 16th c.]
- Any of a system of slits, as in the hood of an automobile, for ventilation.
Derived terms
- louvered, louvred
Translations
See also
- jalousie
Anagrams
- Louvre, louvre, velour
French
Etymology
louve +? -er
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /lu.ve/
Verb
louver
- (transitive) to drill a hole in a stone for the attachment of a wedge
Conjugation
Related terms
- louve
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