Damper vs Dammer - What's the difference?
damper | dammer |
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
# 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,
* (Rudyard Kipling), His Gift
(damp)
A clear to yellow resin, obtained in Malaya from trees of the genera Shorea and of the Dipterocarpaceae family, used in varnishes and inks
Any of various hard resins, obtained especially from evergreen trees, notably of the genera Agathis (Araucariaceae family), , native to southeast Asia, also used in varnishes and lacquers.
As nouns the difference between damper and dammer
is that damper is something that damps or checks: while dammer is a clear to yellow resin, obtained in malaya from trees of the genera shorea and of the dipterocarpaceae family, used in varnishes and inks.As an adjective damper
is (damp).damper
English
Noun
(en noun)- Nor did Sabrina?s presence seem to act as any damper at the modest little festivities.
- The farm-men usually bake their flour into flat cakes, which they call dampers , and cook these in the ashes.
