Muffler vs Damper - What's the difference?
muffler | damper |
(US) Part of the exhaust pipe of a car that dampens the noise the engine produces.
A type of scarf.
* 1913 ,
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)
As nouns the difference between muffler and damper
is that muffler is (us) part of the exhaust pipe of a car that dampens the noise the engine produces while damper is something that damps or checks:.As an adjective damper is
(damp).muffler
English
Noun
(en noun)- The newcomer took off his cap and his big woollen muffler . His nose was pointed and red.
Synonyms
* silencerdamper
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.