(v. t.) To make damp or moist; to make slightly wet.
(v. t.) To depress; to check; to make dull; to lessen.
(v. i.) To become damp; to deaden.
Example Sentences:
(1) Toxic effects of glucocorticoids on bone contribute to the pathogenesis of osteonecrosis, increase the risk for fractures by decreasing cancellous bone mass and synthesis of bone matrix, and dampen the linear growth response in pediatric recipients.
(2) These findings indicate that sympathetic-adrenal medullary responses are dampened considerably in animals exposed to a highly predictable regimen of chronic intermittent stress.
(3) 11.12am BST Here's my colleague Angela Monaghan 's news story on the manufacturing data: Heavy rainfall failed to dampen Britain's manufacturing sector in February with output growing much more strongly than expected, boosting the outlook for the wider economy.
(4) Since prosthetic meniscal replacement may be performed in the setting of normal articular cartilage, a prosthesis will be required to match the exact joint configuration, induce the same lubricity, produce the same coefficient of friction, and absorb and dampen the same joint forces (without incurring significant creep or abrasion) as does the normal meniscus.
(5) The subcupular meshwork may play an important role in transmitting the shear strain of the otolithic membrane to all the ciliary bundles and may also exert an additional dampening effect to prevent unwanted vibration.
(6) MPC member Andrew Sentance has argued the bank risks stoking inflationary pressures if it adopts a looser monetary policy and should increase interest rates to dampen demand.
(7) In addition, there is evidence that both receptor-operated Ca2+ and potential-operated Ca2+ channels may be impaired because the responses to norepinephrine and KCl are both dampened in diabetic aortae.
(8) The reduced phacoemulsification incision size in combination with a scleral pocket closed with a continuous single knotted 10-0 monofilament nylon suture under tonometric and keratometric control significantly dampens the changes in corneal astigmatism during the early and late postoperative periods.
(9) This dampened response to ethanol for men at high future risk for alcoholism was not observed after challenges with two different doses of diazepam.
(10) In the Purkinje cell bodies, however, the metabolic stress was dampened; glucose concentrations decreased, but the levels of ATP were maintained and, to a lesser extent, those of P-creatine.
(11) In this series, the association MCA curve dampened and PTI lower than 0.90 is the evidence of a more than 90% stenosis, except in 2 atheromatous and symptomatic occlusions.
(12) Although growth-retarding cell to cell interactions are also clearly operative in growing FRTL-5 cells, they are less effective than those dampening the replication rate of the thyrocytes within the monolayer hull of normal follicles.
(13) It said that a widening of interest rate spreads could add to the cost of new borrowing, acting to dampen demand.
(14) Prior exposure to PGE1 minimally inhibited airway responses but when given simultaneously with antigen, it either selectively inhibited some or dampened all pulmonary function abnormalities.
(15) There appeared to be a concerted attempt by both countries on Sunday to dampen down any controversy and return to business as usual.
(16) But she is nervous and what she is doing is dampening speculation to make the task less stressful.
(17) Phenobarbital by inhibiting PIP-kinase may reduce the membrane concentration of PIP2 and thus dampen the stimulus-response which leads to the hydrolysis of PIP2 and the formation of the second messenger, inositol-1,4,5-trisphosphate (IP3), involved in mobilization of intracellular Ca2+.
(18) Alcohol's Stress-Response-Dampening (SRD) effect has been the subject of much research, but little has been done to examine the effects of drinking alcohol after experiencing a stressor (Stress-Response-Recovery; SRR).
(19) Eosinophils have also been involved in the process of the replenishment of mediators by dampening the synthesis of mediators in mast cells.
(20) Failure to respond to influenza vaccination correlated with a decreased number and percentage of IgD-bearing PBL and a dampened lymphocyte response to PWM in a subset of healthy aged volunteers.
Harmonica
Definition:
(n.) A musical instrument, consisting of a series of hemispherical glasses which, by touching the edges with the dampened finger, give forth the tones.
(n.) A toy instrument of strips of glass or metal hung on two tapes, and struck with hammers.
Example Sentences:
(1) Sting is sitting on a bar stool in a white T-shirt and grey camouflage-patterned combat trousers, playing a harmonica.
(2) There are banjos and harmonicas, songs harking back to the old-time tunes she grew up listening to in Golden, Texas (population: 600).
(3) With those shades and that blank expression he communicated something far more menacing to middle-class America than the curly haired man with the harmonica.
(4) After passing on that, and the Bob Dylan 1999 tour harmonica ($2,000), I stop at the shrine to Elliott Smith.
(5) You can sort of tell from Who Are You – which from its harmonica intro and ponderous gait sounds like Dylan blowing his harp through the Smiths' How Soon Is Now – that Cox doesn't move like Jagger, but more like Morrissey.
(6) In March, 2004, these included a harmonica, two bracelets, a ring, a framed picture of a girl dancing on the brow of a hill and the reminder from a packet of Swan rolling papers that prompted Drake to call his first album Five Leaves Left.
(7) You keep expecting the song, usually just played with piano and the occasional harmonica, to reach a dramatic climax, but instead it fades away.
(8) Middleton will host a final local health summit on his last working day this Friday, at the vast Balaji Hindu temple in Tividale , before heading off for retirement, when he hopes to have more time for his other great passion, the blues harmonica.
(9) "When I heard Goodnight Irene by Leadbelly, with Sonny Terry on harmonica, that was it.
(10) Papers have been withheld from Chaplin's MI5 file to protect the names of informants though there are unexplained, probably inconsequential, references to Jimmy Reid, the communist Scottish trade unionist; Larry Adler, the harmonica virtuoso who left his native US where he was branded a communist and blacklisted; and Humphrey Lyttelton, the Eton-educated jazz musician who once described himself a "romantic socialist".