Definition for: damp

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English

Pronunciation

• dămp, /dæmp/, /d{mp/

  Rhymes: -æmp

Etymology

Akin to Low German, Dutch, and Danish damp vapor, steam, fog, German dampf , Icelandic dampi , Swedish damb dust, and to Modern New German dimpfen to smoke, imperative dampf . Also Old English dampen to choke, suffocate.

Noun

damp ( uncountable )

1. Moisture; humidity; fog; fogginess; vapor.

   Quotations

   • Night . . . with black air Accompanied, with damps and dreadful gloom. - Milton

2. Dejection; depression; cloud of the mind.

   Quotations

   • Even now, while thus I stand blest in thy presence, A secret damp of grief comes o'er my soul. - Addison
   • It must have thrown a damp over your autumn excursion. - J. D. Forbes

3. (Mining): A gaseous product, formed in coal mines, old wells, pits, etc.

Translations

Moisture (1)

Dejection (2)

A gaseous product, formed in coal mines, old wells, pits, etc (3)

Derived terms

• Choke damp , a damp consisting principally of carboni acid gas; -- so called from its extinguishing flame and animal life. See Carbonic acid, under Carbonic.
• Damp sheet , a curtain in a mine gallery to direct air currents and prevent accumulation of gas.
• Fire damp , a damp consisting chiefly of light carbureted hydrogen; -- so called from its tendency to explode when mixed with atmospheric air and brought into contact with flame.

Adjective

damp (damper, dampest)

1. Being in a state between dry and wet; moderately wet; moist; humid.

   Quotations

   • O'erspread with a damp sweat and holy fear - Dryden

2. (Rare): Dejected; depressed; sunk

   Quotations

   • All these and more came flocking, but with looks Downcast and damp - Milton

Translations

Being in a state between dry and wet (1)

Dejected (2)

Transitive verb

to damp ( third-person singular simple present damps , present participle damping , simple past damped , past participle damped )

1. To render damp; to moisten; to make humid, or moderately wet; to dampen; as, to damp cloth.
2. To put out, as fire; to depress or deject; to deaden; to cloud; to check or restrain, as action or vigor; to make dull; to weaken; to discourage.
3. To suppress vibrations (mechanical) or oscillations (electrical) by converting energy to heat (or some other form of energy).

   Quotations

   • To damp your tender hopes - Akenside
   • Usury dulls and damps all industries, improvements, and new inventions, wherein money would be stirring if it were not for this slug - Bacon
   • How many a day has been damped and darkened by an angry word! - Sir J. Lubbock
   • The failure of his enterprise damped the spirit of the soldiers. - Macaulay

Translations

To render damp (1)

To put out, as fire (2)

To suppress vibrations or oscillations (3)

Dutch

Noun

damp m .

1. vapour, vapor

Swedish

Verb

damp

1. preterit active of dimpa

Other Translations for "damp"

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Binary		1100100 1100001 1101101 1110000
Hex		64616D70
Pig Latin		ampday

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