# damper
## English
### Pronunciation

* (US) enPR: dămp′ər, IPA: /ˈdæmpɚ/
* Audio (General Australian):(file)
* Audio (UK, male voice):(file)
* Rhymes: -æmpə(ɹ)

### Etymology 1

From damp (verb) +‎ -er.
The name of the type of bread is first attested in 1825, and originally likely refers to damping the appetite.

#### 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.
*** 1887, William Black, Sabina Zembra:Nor did Sabrina′s presence seem to act as any damper at the modest little festivities.
** A device that decreases the oscillations of a system.
** (mechanical engineering) A shock absorber.
*** 1960 December, “The first hundred 25 kV a.c. electric locomotives for B.R.”, in Trains Illustrated, page 726:In general, steel springs were stipulated for primary suspension, although rubber was accepted for auxiliary springing; hydraulic dampers were specified and the use of laminated springs ruled out.
*** 2022 September 21, Ben Jones, “IC225s: the Electras go gliding on”, in RAIL, number 966, page 40:However, complaints quickly surfaced about the ride quality of the SIG BT41 bogies, which was only cured by the fitting of additional dampers to the bogies and couplers.
* (chiefly New Zealand, 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.
** 1902, Barbara Baynton, edited by Sally Krimmer and Alan Lawson, Bush Studies (Portable Australian Authors: Barbara Baynton), St Lucia: University of Queensland Press, published 1980, page 15:The flour bespattering Squeaker's now neglected clothes spoke eloquently of his clumsy efforts at damper making.
** 1938, William Ferguson, John Patten, “Aborigines Claim Citizen Rights!”, in Anita Heiss, Peter Minter, editors, Macquarie PEN Anthology of Aboriginal Literature, Allen & Unwin, published 2008, page 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!

##### Derived terms

* damperless
* damper winding
* fire damper
* overdamper
* put a damper on
* seismic damper
* tuned mass damper
* underdamper
* viscous damper
* yaw damper

##### Translations
### Etymology 2

From damp (adjective) +‎ -er.

#### Adjective

damper
* comparative form of damp: more damp

### References

* ↑ Richards, Kel (2015) The Story of Australian English‎, →ISBN
* “damper”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.

### Anagrams

* deramp, ramped

## Danish
### Etymology 1

A calque of the English steamer.

#### Noun

damper c (singular definite damperen, plural indefinite dampere)
* steamer, steamboat, steamship

##### 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.

## Turkish
### Etymology 1

From English dumper.

#### Noun

damper (definite accusative damperi, plural damperler)
* dump truck, dumper

### Etymology 2

From English damper.

#### Noun

damper (definite accusative damperi, plural damperler)
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### References

* Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “damper”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 1095