(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.
Tamper
Definition:
(n.) One who tamps; specifically, one who prepares for blasting, by filling the hole in which the charge is placed.
(n.) An instrument used in tamping; a tamping iron.
(v. i.) To meddle; to be busy; to try little experiments; as, to tamper with a disease.
(v. i.) To meddle so as to alter, injure, or vitiate a thing.
(v. i.) To deal unfairly; to practice secretly; to use bribery.
Example Sentences:
(1) There were numerous reports of looting and tampering with evidence, although rebel authorities angrily denied them.
(2) If they included a warning in the package ‘tamper resistance’ feature that works by non-Apple-authorised repair services may be mistaken for tampering attempts, and lead to the phone being disabled’, then it would be purely a feature ... By concealing the feature prior to sales, and only even revealing it after being repeatedly pressured over it, Apple turned what could have been a feature into a landmine.” Apple shares have fallen more than 20% in the past three months as investors begin to doubt whether it can maintain the stellar growth posted since the iPhone first went on sale eight years ago.
(3) However, only the doctors who graduated from the two modern universities in Kuopio and Tampere were satisfied with their undergraduate health centre teaching.
(4) Anal lesions were registered in 19 of 72 patients (26%) operated on for Crohn's disease at the Tampere University Hospital during 1966-1988.
(5) But all those involved strenuously denied they had deliberately, or even consciously, interfered or tampered with their tags.
(6) Also at issue will be whether Trump’s tweet – “James Comey better hope that there are no ‘tapes’ of our conversations before he starts leaking to the press!” – represents an attempt to tamper with a witness in an ongoing investigation.
(7) He says of the rumoured mood of fear among staff at Philly HQ: "I wasn't terrifying, but I wasn't someone to be tampered with.
(8) Rising numbers of consumers are finding they are subject to thieves who tamper with their gas and electricity meters to redirect some of their supply.
(9) Now anti-doping authorities demand that competitors urinate into two testing bottles in front of a control officer, who then applies tamper-proof seals to the containers, which are individually labelled and sent by courier to the laboratory.
(10) c-erbB-2 protein over-expression was studied immunohistochemically in 319 paraffin-embedded breast carcinomas representing 89% of all breast-cancer cases operated in the Tampere University Hospital between 1977 and 1981.
(11) The judge dismissed days of evidence about matters including police tampering with the crime scene and the length of extension cord in Pistorius's bedroom as ultimately irrelevant to the case.
(12) A one-year prospective follow-up study of all patients visiting Tampere Research Station of Sports Medicine (TRSSM) was carried out in order to determine the specific features of women's sports injuries compared to those of men.
(13) During the period 1975-1981, 48 persons were operated on at Tampere University Central Hospital for an acute knee ligament sports injury.
(14) Through his spokesman Ahmed al-Safi, al-Sistani said the prime minister must be more “daring and courageous” in his steps to reform the government, urging him to strike “with an iron fist anyone who is tampering with the people’s money”.
(15) To assess the intensity of and changes in diagnostic investigations and treatment in the terminal stages of breast cancer 555 patients in the area of Tampere University Central Hospital in whom breast cancer had been diagnosed from 1977 to 1980 were followed up for five years.
(16) July 2014: Trial collapses after it emerges Mahmood had tampered with evidence.
(17) After an investigation, it was clear the meter had been tampered with before she moved in, and the bill was wiped.
(18) After the surgery, we recognized that the controller unit of expiratory valve of the ventilator was obstructed by a Tamper Proof Film, which seals the outlet of a commercial bag of lactated Ringer's solution (Solulact, Terumo Co.).
(19) Thus the intended recipient would know the signal had been tampered with.
(20) One of the South Korean investigators, Shin Sang-cheol, sacrificed his career to express his belief that the Cheonan had run aground in a tragic accident and with reports of evidence tampering circulating, even the South Korean public wasn't widely convinced of North Korean involvement: a survey conducted in Seoul found less than 33% blamed the DPRK.