Толковый словарь английского языка Oxford English Reference - damper
Damper
damper
n. 1 a person or thing that discourages, or tempers enthusiasm. 2 a device that reduces shock or noise. 3 a metal plate in a flue to control the draught, and so the rate of combustion. 4 Mus. a pad silencing a piano string except when removed by means of a pedal or by the note's being struck. 5 esp. Austral. & NZ unleavened bread or cake of flour and water baked in wood ashes. Phrases and idioms put a damper on take the vigour or enjoyment out of.
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noun Date: 1707 a dulling or deadening influence , a device that damps: as, a valve or plate (as in the flue of a furnace) for regulating the draft, a small felted block to stop the vibration of a piano string, shock absorber, a simple usually unleavened bread of a kind made originally in the Australian bush ...Толковый словарь английского языка
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