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What is the difference between valve and damper?

valve | damper |

As nouns the difference between valve and damper

is that valve is a device that controls the flow of a gas or fluid through a pipe while damper is something that damps or checks.

As a verb valve

is to control (flow) by means of a valve.

As an adjective damper is

comparative of damp.

valve

English

(wikipedia valve)

Noun

(en noun)
  • A device that controls the flow of a gas or fluid through a pipe.
  • A device that admits fuel and air into the cylinder of an internal combustion engine, or one that allows combustion gases to exit.
  • (anatomy) One or more membranous partitions, flaps, or folds, which permit the passage of the contents of a vessel or cavity in one direction, but stop or retard the flow in the opposite direction; as, the ileocolic, mitral, and semilunar valves.
  • (British) A vacuum tube.
  • (botany) One of the pieces into which certain fruits naturally separate when they dehisce.
  • (botany) A small portion of certain anthers, which opens like a trapdoor to allow the pollen to escape, as in the barberry.
  • (biology) One of the pieces or divisions of bivalve or multivalve shells.
  • (biology) One of the two similar portions of the shell of a diatom.

    • Derived terms

    * exhaust valve * heart valve * vein valve * ileocecal valve * intake valve * non-return valve: see: non-return * safety valve * toggle valve * valved * valveless * valve oil * valvoplasty

    Verb

    (valv)
  • To control (flow) by means of a valve.
    • ----

    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

    * ----