(n.) 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.
Example Sentences:
(1) It will involve fitting a pair of X-shaped braces under each of the structural bays under the bridge, along with 37 viscous dampers (the kind of large shock-absorbers you might find on a truck), and another 50 tuned mass dampers.
(2) Bearing and raising children often puts a damper on women's employment opportunities.
(3) So it's not just damper up here but more decorous, too.
(4) Springs and dampers are used to model the joint forces and moments.
(5) Then they get the opportunity to make some tasty foods including wattleseed damper, kangaroo kebabs or sample lemon myrtle biscuits.
(6) Negative events have small effects on these outcomes, sometimes acting as triggers, but sometimes as dampers.
(7) Simulation of muscular contraction, using a spring-damper arrangement, improved the results significantly.
(8) This behaviour eventually dampers out to yield a steady state situation when the amount of cell proliferation is exactly balanced by the decomposition of cells in the necrotic core.
(9) Hope that doesn’t put a damper on your school thing!” Everything is a reminder.
(10) The forces and torques transmitted between the masses, and the energy dissipated by the dampers were computed for several combinations of exciter frequencies and accelerations.
(11) At frequencies above 100 Hz the energy was dissipated mainly by the dampers between the masses near to the exciter.
(12) Dampered external osteosynthesis in the treatment of open comminuted fractures of the bones of the crus reduced the mean periods of in-patient treatment and consolidation of the fractures by 27-34.
(13) Heavy snow and bad weather conditions usually put a damper on fighting during the harsh Afghan winter.
(14) Jackets and boots, try to buy Gore-Tex.” The rise of violent infighting among jihadist factions in early 2013 and the subsequent disavowal of Isis by al-Qaida put a significant damper on the five-star jihad.
(15) It is shown that orthophosphate acts as a damper of the regulatory effect of fructose bisphosphate on the interaction between aldolase and microfilaments.
(16) On the basis of Lagrange's virtual work principle the nonlinear static and dynamic equations of motion for a sagitally symmetrical spine model of comprising rigid bodies, springs, beams and dampers are derived.
(17) It acts as a damper against the contractions of the heart or the pressure of occluding pharyngeal teeth, and it provides the mouth region of bottom-dwelling, algal eaters with flexible support.
(18) However, high death losses resulting from diarrhea in artificially reared piglets have dampered enthusiasm for early weaning.
(19) The connective tissues are modeled by springs and dampers.
(20) But it didn’t put a damper on Jenkins’ enthusiasm: “Just the fact of casting a vote for a woman president, whether she wins or not, is so extraordinary.
Dapper
Definition:
(a.) Little and active; spruce; trim; smart; neat in dress or appearance; lively.
Example Sentences:
(1) That is what happened this week, when another web campaign persuaded ITV2 that its relationship with a fellow by the name of Dapper Laughs was no longer worth it.
(2) The performer, real name Daniel O’Reilly, posted a Christmas message on YouTube proclaiming that “Dapper’s Back”.
(3) If she cries, she’s just playing hard to get.”) A petition for the removal of his show Dapper Laughs: On the Pull on ITV2 having gathered 63,000 names, the series was cancelled last Monday.
(4) Speaking at a white rostrum amid flags, flourishes and gold leaf, a dapper-looking Putin's message was clear: after years of being cheated and dissed by the western powers, Russia is back.
(5) Broadcasters are scouring the world of internet video bloggers – vloggers – in the hope of finding the next big thing, and Dapper (real name Daniel O’Reilly) was touted as one of the first to be given his own TV series .
(6) Although the big tour dates have been canned, according to a spokesman from the agency Coalition which says it acts as “live booking agent for Dapper Laughs”, the comedian is “still going ahead with club shows”.
(7) Luciano Liggio, boss of the Sicilian Cosa Nostra until the mid-70s, was photographed sticking out his lower jaw like Don Vito, while Gotti, known as the Dapper Don, assumed the style wholesale.
(8) MK For the most part he wears civilian clothes, and I wanted him to be pretty dapper.
(9) I felt blessed ITV2 had even given me a first series,” O’Reilly told Newsnight last week , saying Dapper Laughs was “gone”.
(10) A dapper gentleman, apparently in his 50s, dressed in a dark suit, a tie and a homburg hat, he didn't stand out among the traditionally dressed men of the Garden, many of whom are orthodox Jews.
(11) He was insouciant, dapper, elegant, somehow intensely English – though O'Toole himself was an Irishman and proud of it – and also outrageously sexy.
(13) Formerly chief foreign policy adviser to prime minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan, the dapper professor dubbed the "Turkish Kissinger" has energetically pursued the ruling AKP party's trademark policy of "zero problems with neighbours", a policy he first articulated in a 2001 book, Strategic Depth.
(14) A lot of them are young guys, much younger than Dapper Laughs, and they say crazy stupid stuff that people seem to love so much they keep on saying it.
(15) The monster who had caused misery for thousands was the dapper gent serving him sweet tea, playing Cliff Richard records and teaching his grandchildren to care for injured animals.
(16) The dapper gent kicked off his career at 15 in Ernest Hemingway’s old haunt Chicote, before opening this cocktail lounge in 1992.
(17) The controversial comedian known as Dapper Laughs has used his first public appearance since the axing of a second series of his ITV2 show to claim that he was laying the “character” to rest, while describing himself as “a victim of my own mistakes” and blaming the media for much of the recent storm surrounding him.
(18) Dapper Laughs’s brand of ‘comedy’ - which is deeply offensive about homeless people, not to mention many others - is something we felt it was important to take a stand against.
(19) Dapper in bow tie and blazer, Nigel Farage’s new European ally likes to welcome a woman to his grey-walled, grey-carpeted Brussels office by stooping to kiss her hand.
(20) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Share Share this post Facebook Twitter Pinterest close Adele's Skyfall Updated at 2.21am GMT 12.46am GMT Neil Patrick Harris is speaking to the "dapper" Ryan Seacrest on the red carpet.