English-Thai Dictionary

damper

N สิ่ง ที่ ทำให้ ท้อแท้ หรือ เสียใจ  sing-ti-tham-hai-thor-tare-rue-sia-jai

 

Webster's 1828 Dictionary

DAMPER

n. 1. That which damps or checks; a valve or sliding plate in a furnace to stop or lessen the quantity of air admitted, and thus to regulate the heat or extinguish the fire.
2. A part of a piano-forte, by which the sound is deadened.

 

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

DAMPER

DAMPER Damp "er, n.

 

Defn: 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 vibrations; or, as in other pieces of mechanism, to check some action at a particular time. Nor did Sabrina's presence seem to act as any damper at the modest little festivities. W. Black.

 

New American Oxford Dictionary

damper

damp er |ˈdampər ˈdæmpər | ▶noun a person or thing that has a depressing, subduing, or inhibiting effect: another damper on reactor development was the problem of safeguards. • Music a pad that silences a piano string except when removed by means of a pedal or by the note being struck. • a device for reducing mechanical vibration, in particular a shock absorber on a motor vehicle. • a conductor used to reduce hunting in an electric motor or generator. • a movable metal plate in a flue or chimney, used to regulate the draft and so control the rate of combustion. PHRASES put a damper on have a depressing, subduing, or inhibiting effect on: he put a damper on her youthful excitement.

 

Oxford Dictionary

damper

damp ¦er |ˈdampə | ▶noun 1 a person or thing that has a subduing or inhibiting effect. • Music a pad silencing a piano string except when removed by means of a pedal or by the note being struck. • a device for reducing mechanical vibration, in particular a shock absorber on a motor vehicle. • a conductor used to reduce oscillation in an electric motor or generator. • a movable metal plate in a flue or chimney, used to regulate the draught and so control the rate of combustion. 2 chiefly Austral. /NZ an unleavened loaf or cake of flour and water baked in wood ashes. [in the sense ‘something that takes the edge off the appetite ’.] PHRASES put a damper on have a subduing or inhibiting effect on: he put a damper on her youthful excitement.

 

American Oxford Thesaurus

damper

damper noun her presence puts a damper on our fun: curb, check, restraint, restriction, limit, limitation, constraint, rein, brake, control, impediment; chill, pall, gloom.

 

Oxford Thesaurus

damper

damper noun this will put a damper on the liberal agenda for the next couple of years: curb, check, restraint, restriction, limit, limitation, constraint, stricture, rein, brake, control, impediment, obstacle, hindrance; discouragement, depressant, depression, chill, pall, gloom, cloud.

 

Sanseido Wisdom Dictionary

damper

d á mp er 名詞 C 1 興ざめにするもの ; けち ▸ put a damper on A ｟くだけて ｠A 〈事 〉に水を差す, Aの興をそぐ 2 (ストーブなどの )空気調節弁 .3 (車の )ダンパー, 緩衡装置 .4 (ピアノの )ダンパー, 止音器 ; (管楽器の )弱音器 .5 ｟豪 ニュージー ｠(イーストを入れず )木灰で焼いたパン [ケーキ ].