Damper vs Dumper - What's the difference?
damper | dumper |
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 small one-man diesel-powered vehicle often used to carry loads and material around, often on building sites.
A dropper of refuse, particularly not in landfill sites/recycling sites.
One who dumps a boyfriend or girlfriend; the one of a romantic couple who terminates the relationship.
As nouns the difference between damper and dumper
is that damper is something that damps or checks while dumper is a small one-man diesel-powered vehicle often used to carry loads and material around, often on building sites.As an adjective damper
is comparative of 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.
