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Damper vs Bumper - What's the difference?

damper | bumper |

As nouns the difference between damper and bumper

is that damper is something that damps or checks while bumper is a drinking vessel filled to the brim.

As adjectives the difference between damper and bumper

is that damper is comparative of damp while bumper is large; filled to the bumpers at the top of a silo.

damper

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • Something that damps or checks:
  • # 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.
  • # A contrivance (sordine), as in a pianoforte, to deaden vibrations; or, as in other pieces of mechanism, to check some action at a particular time.
  • # Something that kills the mood.
  • #* (rfdate) W. Black
  • Nor did Sabrina?s presence seem to act as any damper at the modest little festivities.
  • # A device that decreases the oscillations of a system.
  • (chiefly, Australia) Bread made from a basic recipe of flour, water, milk, and salt, but without yeast.
  • * 1827, , Two Years in New South Wales'', ii.190, quoted in G. A. Wilkes, ''A Dictionary of Australian Colloquialisms , 1978, ISBN 0-424-00034-2,
    • The farm-men usually bake their flour into flat cakes, which they call dampers , and cook these in the ashes.
  • * (Rudyard Kipling), His Gift

    • Adjective

    (head)
  • (damp)

    • Anagrams

    * ----

    bumper

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (obsolete) A drinking vessel filled to the brim.
  • * 1749 , Henry Fielding, Tom Jones , Folio Society 1973, p. 443:
    • they now shook hands heartily, and drank bumpers of strong beer to healths which we think proper to bury in oblivion.
  • * 1818 , Keats, :
  • *:Yet can I gulp a bumper to thy name,—
  • *:O smile among the shades, for this is fame!
  • * 1859 , Dickens, A tale of two cities ,
    • Sydney Carton drank the punch at a great rate; drank it by bumpers , looking at his friend.
  • (colloquial) Anything large or successful (now usually attributively).
  • (automotive) Parts at the front and back of a vehicle which are meant to absorb the impact of a collision; fender
  • Any mechanical device used to absorb an impact, soften a collision, or protect against impact
  • * The company sells screw-on rubber bumpers and feet.
  • Someone or something that bumps.
  • (cricket) A bouncer.
  • (billiards) A side wall of a pool table.
  • (broadcasting) A short ditty or jingle used to separate a show from the advertisements.
  • (slang, dated) A covered house at a theatre, etc., in honour of some favourite performer.

    • Adjective

    (-)
  • (colloquial) Large; filled to the bumpers at the top of a silo.
    • We harvested a bumper crop of arugula and parsnips this year.