damp
adjEtymology
From Middle English dampen (“to stifle; suffocate”). Akin to Low German damp, Dutch damp, and German Dampf (“vapor, steam, fog”), Icelandic dampi, Swedish damm (“dust”), and to German dampf imperative of dimpfen (“to smoke”). Also Middle English dampen (“to extinguish, choke, suffocate”). Ultimately all descend from Proto-Germanic *dampaz.
Definitions
In a state between dry and wet
In a state between dry and wet; moderately wet; moist.
- She said no more. The trembling Trojans hear, O'erspread with a damp sweat and holy fear.
- The lawn was still damp so we decided not to sit down.
Despondent
Despondent; dispirited, downcast.
- All these and more came flocking; but with looks / Down cast and damp.
Permitting the possession of alcoholic beverages, but not their sale.
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Moisture
Moisture; humidity; dampness.
- Ere twice in murk and occidental damp / Moist Hesperus hath quench’d his sleepy lamp,
- What means this chilling damp that clings around me! / Why do I tremble thus!
- Unceasing, soaking rain was falling; the very lamps seemed obscured by the damp upon the glass, and their light reached but to a little distance from the posts.
Fog
Fog; fogginess; vapor.
- Night […] with black air / Accompanied, with damps and dreadful gloom.
- Her chilling finger on my head, With coldest touch congealed my soul— Cold as the finger of the dead, Or damps which round a tombstone roll—
- Summer was ending: in the daytime singing insects hung in every sunbeam; vegetation was heavy nightly with globes of dew; and after showers creeping damps and twilight chills came up from the hollows.
Dejection or depression
Dejection or depression; something that spoils a positive emotion (such as enjoyment, satisfaction, expectation or courage) or a desired activity.
- Ev’n now, while thus I stand blest in thy Presence, / A secret Damp of Grief comes o’er my Thoughts,
- It is in this ſpirit that ſome have looked upon thoſe accidents, that caſt an occaſional damp upon trade.
A gaseous product, formed in coal mines, old wells, pits, etc.
To suppress vibrations (mechanical) or oscillations (electrical) by converting energy to…
To suppress vibrations (mechanical) or oscillations (electrical) by converting energy to heat (or some other form of energy).
- Hydraulic shock absorbers are used to damp out vertical and lateral oscillations.
To dampen
To dampen; to make moderately wet.
- to damp cloth
- It just damps a bit, but it een't not to sey reen.
To put out, as fire
To put out, as fire; to weaken, restrain, or make dull.
- How many a day has been damped and darkened by an angry word!
- The failure of his enterprise damped the spirit of the soldiers.
Initialism of damage-associated molecular pattern.
Acronym of deficits in attention, motor control and perception.
A municipality in Schleswig-Holstein, Germany.
A surname from German.
A surname from English.
The neighborhood
Derived
bedamp, damp-dry, dampen, damp haze, dampish, damply, dampness, dampsome, damp squib, damp squid, dampth, dampy, damp down, damp off, afterdamp, blackdamp, chokedamp, choke damp, damp course, dampless, dampproof, damp proofing, damp sheet, death-damp, firedamp, flashdamp, rising damp, stinkdamp, whitedamp, dampable, dampingly, nondamping, overdamp, underdamp
Vish — recursive loop
A definitional loop anchored at damp. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.
A definitional loop anchored at damp. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.
7 hops · closes at damp
curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.
sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA