(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.
Stove
Definition:
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(n.) A house or room artificially warmed or heated; a forcing house, or hothouse; a drying room; -- formerly, designating an artificially warmed dwelling or room, a parlor, or a bathroom, but now restricted, in this sense, to heated houses or rooms used for horticultural purposes or in the processes of the arts.
(n.) An apparatus, consisting essentially of a receptacle for fuel, made of iron, brick, stone, or tiles, and variously constructed, in which fire is made or kept for warming a room or a house, or for culinary or other purposes.
(v. t.) To keep warm, in a house or room, by artificial heat; as, to stove orange trees.
(v. t.) To heat or dry, as in a stove; as, to stove feathers.
Example Sentences:
(1) Also, isotypes to HCHO-HSA resulted from the exposure and no other sources, such as smoking, mobile home residency, and use of wood stoves.
(2) In multiple logistic models, accounting for independent effects of age, smoking, pack-years, parents' smoking, socio-economic status, body mass index, significantly increased odds ratios were found in males for the associations of: bottled gas for cooking with cough (1.66) and dyspnoea (1.81); stove for heating with cough (1.44) and phlegm (1.39); stove fuelled by natural gas and fan or stove fuelled other than by natural gas with cough (1.54 and 1.66).
(3) We have attempted to develop the studies initiated by Poindexter,Stove and Stanier, and Schmidt and Stanier (16, 17, 20) with the Caulobacter genus so that these bacteria can serve as a model system for prokaryotic differentiation.
(4) They are furnished with raised wooden floors, good beds, small kitchens and even wood-burning stoves; six have front decks.
(5) Airborne particles from living rooms which were heated by stoves, or by fire places, and from outdoors were collected simultaneously.
(6) There's a vintage woodburing stove, no TV, a seafood menu rich in local produce, including Glenbeigh oysters, and a top-notch brew on draught in Tom Crean's lager, the sole beer made by Dingle Brewing Company (dinglebrewingcompany.com).
(7) So they got rid of the car, installed low-energy bulbs , insulation and draught-proofing, and a year-and-a-half ago they bought a wood-burning stove .
(8) A new field sampler has been developed for measuring the particulate matter (PM) and carbon monoxide emissions of woodburning stoves.
(9) An increasing number of families in the United States are converting to woodburning stoves in an effort to reduce winter heating bills.
(10) These individuals have frequently reduced mobility and may risk falling while filling their stoves.
(11) Kelly said it was mostly up to governments to curb pollution levels, through legislation, measures such as moving power stations away from big cities and providing cheap alternatives to indoor wood and coal stoves.
(12) "I have a gas stove, so with a little bit of a flame the gas worked, and we are, we had dinner, we had our coffee, so we were ok." Adam Gabbatt Horizon Diner in Manahawkin, west of Long Beach Island, serving customers displaced by Sandy.
(13) Stoves were the main specified ignition agent for nightclothes (36%).
(14) Backing an initiative by Merseyside-based kitchen appliance firm Stoves for a new Made in Britain mark, Miliband said they were "three words we don't hear enough, or see enough".
(15) A conventional stove, manufactured in the Boise area, was tested at altitudes of 90 and 825 m. A catalytic stove was tested only at the high altitude facility.
(16) Kerosene pressure stove accidents occurred commonly in the age group 16-35 years and were rare in other age groups.
(17) The tiles, I am told, are also Italian, the chandeliers Czech, the fridge American, the stove German.
(18) He conceded that the flat was heated with coal stoves and said it was directly above a flat that a neighbouring tenant rented just for his dogs.
(19) ‘I hope the stove works’ Recent letters appear to show how militants are currently idealising elements of jihadi culture.
(20) They are minute, it's true – no amount of creative photography can conceal the proximity of the beds to the stoves or indeed the toilets.