Deadening influence

Usage examples of damper.

The rods of Corti are thought to act as dampers on the basilar membrane, to prevent the continuance of vibrations when once they are started.

After a lunch of grilled steak, damper and tea, the four travellers rested in the cool shade of the river gums until mid-afternoon.

In the damper hollows the Mauritia palms threw out their graceful drooping fronds.

We know that it can perfectly well withstand a little more heat or cold, dampness or dryness, for elsewhere it ranges into slightly hotter or colder, damper or drier districts.

Wally had brewed a billy and handed Niah a mug of hot tea and proceeded to tear off chunks of a freshly made damper.

After two days and nights of more or less continuous driving, the boy was no whit damper or grubbier than before, and Farrell was no nearer to remembering whether his name was Pierce Harlow or Harlow Pierce.

Green cops and the religious police stopping suspicious pedestrians at random and questioning them, a damper had been put on the celebration.

Brokebaugh just spares me the humiliation of denouncing Gregorio as a former busboy in Yincenti's wop restaurant in West Fiftieth Street and still wanted for robbing the damper of thirty-six dollars.

The flour bespattering Squeaker's now neglected clothes spoke eloquently of his clumsy efforts at damper making.

But I put the damper on it, Cheeser, because I know you're not one for that sort of celebratin'.

These people may have some trouble with their forcefields, but the technology dampers they're tied to are something else again.

The enemy, whose weapons failed to work in range of the dampers, attacked with bayonets, and used guns, shovels, and picks in the manner of clubs and battle axes.

A quick look at Dyan, and in spite of the telepathic dampers he picked up the thought, you see, Regis, I promised you the Domain should not go unchallenged, and now I have confused them with not one claimant but two.

Within seconds after Hastur called a recess, they were all around me, and despite the telepathic dampers, the blend of curiosity, horror, shock—malice from somewhere—was more than I could take.

For once in my life I was glad of the telepathic dampers, which lessened the jangle in my head to a manageable ache.