| 单词 | damper |
| 释义 | damper (once / 5270 pages) n When you put a damper on something, you restrain it or inhibit it. Putting a damper on things usually means bringing them down — your car troubles might put a damper on your travel plans. A forecast of afternoon thunderstorms will put a damper on your picnic preparations, and being assigned a long research paper on Friday might be a damper on your weekend free time. More physical kinds of dampers include a device that restrains air in a chimney, by blocking or directing its flow, and a pad that's made to soften or muffle the sound from a musical instrument. WORD FAMILYdamper: dampers+/damp: damped, damper, dampest, damping, dampish, damply, dampness, damps/dampish: dampishly/dampness: dampnesses USAGE EXAMPLESBut his anxiety might put a damper on the festivities. New York Times(Dec 29, 2016) Higher rates tend to put a damper on price growth because they drive up the monthly cost of a mortgage. Wall Street Journal(Dec 27, 2016) Higher mortgage rates tend to put a damper on price growth because they drive up the monthly cost of a mortgage. Wall Street Journal(Dec 27, 2016) 1n a depressing restraint rain put a damper on our picnic plans Hyper restraint the act of controlling by restraining someone or something 2n a movable iron plate that regulates the draft in a stove or chimney or furnace Hyper plate a sheet of metal or wood or glass or plastic 3n a device that decreases the amplitude of electronic, mechanical, acoustical, or aerodynamic oscillations Syn|Hypo|Hyper muffler damper block, piano damper damper consisting of a small felted block that drops onto a piano string to stop its vibration dash-pota mechanical damper; the vibrating part is attached to a piston that moves in a chamber filled with liquid cushion, shock, shock absorbera mechanical damper; absorbs energy of sudden impulses air cushion, air springa mechanical device using confined air to absorb the shock of motion device an instrumentality invented for a particular purpose |
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