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Definition of damp in English: dampadjective dampdæmp Slightly wet. 潮的 her hair was still damp from the shower Example sentencesExamples - Shaking her head, she sat herself down on a cold and slightly damp bench.
- Her hair was slightly damp from the long hours of tears and her tired, blue eyes were puffy.
- Sarah grabbed his wet hand when they entered the forest, he shivered slightly in the damp atmosphere.
- They were followed by four very well dressed, slightly damp individuals, one of whom stepped wide around Jim as he passed.
- Preferring light shade and slightly damp soil, this evergreen form sends out new growth annually from the base of the plant.
- With another sigh, she huddled closer to the trunk of the tree behind her, shivering slightly in the damp mist.
- I padded quietly over to the door and opened it, looking up at Donovan's slightly damp face and hair.
- She pulled Millie over to the washbasin on the table and began to wrap her finger with a thin, slightly damp wash rag.
- The tubers can then be stored in boxes - though not the crowns - and covered with slightly damp peat ready for planting next year.
- With her back on the slightly damp grass, Selina watched the scattered clouds float by.
- When working with the phyllo leaves, keep a slightly damp towel over the leaves you are not currently using - and work quickly.
- Sweat drenched his body and there was a slightly damp patch on the sheet under him.
- She sat on the cold, slightly damp stone and let her cloak drop, watching as it billowed around her ankles like a cloud of thick black smoke.
- An hour later, the slightly damp crew boarded the buses for the final leg home.
- I headed towards my favorite spot below the old weeping willow and sat on the slightly damp ground.
- Silently and with some relief, we exited and sat down on the slightly damp curb.
- Knead well; let rise to double its size under a slightly damp towel in a warm place.
- This morning I was wiping the table with a very slightly damp rag and noticed that the wax build-up was coming off.
- The man in the mirror's blue-grey and slightly damp hair hung straight behind him, disappearing behind his bare shoulders.
- She tossed the bundle of slightly damp clothing into the general vicinity of the tent and sat down on the grass beside him.
Synonyms moist, moistened, wettish, dampened, dampish humid, steamy, muggy, clammy, sweaty, sticky, dank, moisture-laden, wet, wetted, rainy, drizzly, showery, misty, foggy, vaporous, dewy
noun dampdæmp 1mass noun Moisture diffused through the air or a solid substance or condensed on a surface, typically with detrimental or unpleasant effects. 潮湿 the house reeked of mould and damp Example sentencesExamples - Centurion, even in the damp, retains an open and friendly atmosphere that is undoubtedly linked to its lack of formal structure.
- Hotter, drier summers will bring an increased risk of property subsidence, while wetter winters may cause damp, condensation and mould problems.
- Soon I was prowling the old family orchard while doing my best to keep the lock shielded from the damp.
- But in the winter, the damp still creeps through the building and leaves the children shivering with cold.
- The heat involved in cooking causes water to form on walls and ceilings and can, at worst, lead to patches of damp and mould.
- Mihradi bit her lip, finding that she was shaking… the damp must be getting to her.
- He carefully draped it over Ramirez, and soon the warmth from the luxuriant fur stilled his chattering teeth and banished the damp.
- The family soon found damp in Imogen's bedroom which caused green mould.
- He could have coped a lot better were it not for the accompanying stomach cramps and cold sweat - there was enough damp in the room without his contributing to it.
- If the walls were rendered with hard sand and cement, this would trap moisture, resulting in condensation or damp.
- Now every one of the hundreds of things she has in stock has to be examined for water damage and damp.
- There was a problem with damp and mould at her home and a lack of security left Lilian feeling quite vulnerable at times.
- He slips it into his pocket, almost imagining that he can smell lavender and cigarette smoke even in the damp of the city.
- Nor is it contended that it results from rising damp or penetrating damp.
- It was not until the building began to suffer the effects of damp that the council acted.
- The mobile classrooms have damp, mould, crumbling walls, hazardous wiring, rotten beams, etc.
- Five minutes later, once the smoke and clouds of damp had cleared, she turned to me: ‘Why did you buy this?’
- Energy efficiency lowers maintenance costs as a result of reduced condensation and damp and makes it cheaper for landlords and tenants to heat their properties.
- Thunder was a thunderstorm, normal was just rain, sprinkle was a light shower, and mist was just damp.
- The sitting room reeked of damp and mould, the source of which was seeping through the plaster on the south-facing gable end.
Synonyms moisture, dampness, humidity, wetness, wet, water, liquid, condensation, steam, vapour, clamminess, mugginess, dankness, wateriness rain, raininess, dew, drizzle, precipitation, spray perspiration, sweat - 1.1
short for firedamp Example sentencesExamples - If the flame got larger, they knew they were encountering "fire damp" (methane gas).
- He had been asked to investigate "fire-damp" (methane gas) explosions in coal mines, caused by the candles miners used as lighting.
- Methane is a nonpoisonous, tasteless, odorless and colorless gas. It is also known as marsh gas (CH4) and, when mixed with air, it forms fire-damp.
- 1.2dampsarchaic Damp air or atmosphere.
〈古〉湿气 Example sentencesExamples - Cliff said, "In those days they called it foul air, bad air, the damps. Air without oxygen is what I think it was.
- Stay not in this evil den; for the air is chill, and the damps are fatal; nor will any, that perish within it, ever find the path to Heaven.
- A draught of this Medoc will defend us from the damps.
2archaic A discouragement or check. shame gave a damp to her triumph 羞愧使她的胜利喜悦减色。 Example sentencesExamples - Even though defensive coordinators have had ample time to study the triplets, they have yet to discover how to put damps on them.
- The rising number of free services may have prompted a report circulating last week that AOL has put the damps on content partners, requiring them to limit links and joint ad campaigns with free ISPs.
verb dampdæmp [with object]1Make (something) slightly wet. 使潮湿 damp a small area with water 用水打湿一小块地方。 Example sentencesExamples - The tooling was done by damping the surface of the tanned leather and pressing or sometimes stamping the design in with a fairly sharp metal, bone or wooden tool.
- When they were dry they were damped and rolled for the dampness to spread evenly before they were ironed with an iron heated and reheated on the stove.
- Alternatively, damp a cloth with kerosene oil and carefully wipe the insects off with it.
Synonyms moisten, wet, dew, water, irrigate, humidify dampen, moisten, wet, dew, water, irrigate, humidify 2damp something downMake a fire burn less strongly by reducing the flow of air to it. 把（火）调小；封（火） he damped down the fire for the night Example sentencesExamples - Firefighters were still damping down the building this morning.
- Fire crews from Richmond, Kensington, North Kensington and Wembley remained at the scene, damping down the building, until late on Tuesday although the blaze was under control by 7.33 am.
- Firefighters spent two hours damping down and searching for hot-spots in the walls after extinguishing the fire that destroyed Lidl's galvanized steel compound after midnight on Thursday night.
- Firefighters worked until just after 6pm damping down the blaze.
- Fire crews stayed until nearly 5am damping the building down.
- Six engines attended the fire, involving over 30 fire-fighters, and crews were still damping down the flames on Wednesday morning.
- He said it took the two crews ten minutes to fight the fire with foam and ten minutes to damp the car down with water.
- Firefighters were expected to be at the mill for several hours damping down after the blaze and ensuring the site was safe.
- It took 64 firemen around six hours to bring the blaze at the Alba Proteins Ltd plant at Wildriggs under control last Thursday morning and they were at the scene for a further eight hours damping down.
- It took at least five hours to bring the blaze under control and we expect to be damping down at the scene for at least the rest of the day.
- Firefighters worked solidly for three hours to kill the flames, and spent a further 21 hours damping down the fire and making the building safe.
- Basildon station officer Nick Beaver told how two crews took around 20 minutes to douse the flames and were there for another two hours damping down.
- After the building was damped down yesterday, structural experts deemed it unsound and ordered its demolition.
- Firefighters from Canvey had to spend two-and-a-half hours damping down the store.
- Although I wasn't on duty for the fire, I was there in the evening damping it down.
Synonyms muffle, deaden, stifle, dampen, damp down, smother, reduce, diminish, decrease, suppress, abate, tone down, moderate, silence, mute, still, quieten, soften, quell - 2.1 Control or restrain a feeling or a situation.
控制，限制（感情，事态） she tried to damp down her feelings of despair 她努力控制自己绝望的情绪。 Example sentencesExamples - Asian multilateralism will be critical not just for coordinating the region's booming economies, but also for damping down the nationalist passions lurking beneath the surface of every Asian country.
- Polley is unshowy and controlled in the star part, damping down her intelligence, beauty and almost all of her emotion for the role.
Synonyms lessen, decrease, diminish, reduce, lower, moderate, damp down, put a damper on, throw cold water on, calm, cool, chill, dull, blunt, tone down, deaden, temper, discourage
3Reduce or stop the vibration of (the strings of a piano or other musical instrument) so as to reduce the volume of sound. 限止（钢琴或其他乐器琴弦）的音 the muted notes should be produced by damping the strings at the seventh position an ensemble of drums including a foot-damped instrument Example sentencesExamples - This guitar also has an ebony arm-rest to keep your arm from damping the sound from the top.
- Although the escapement enables the hammer to fall away from the string, the damper is not allowed to fall back and damp the string until the key is released.
- 3.1Physics Progressively reduce the amplitude of (an oscillation or vibration)
〔物理〕减幅，阻尼 concrete structures damp out any vibrations a damped suspension that isolates the chassis from external vibration Example sentencesExamples - When the signal is correlated with a dwell time much longer than its frequency, the signal gets effectively averaged out in each dwell time and the calculated correlation function gets damped.
- If the frequency of the sinusoidal oscillations in migration were higher, we would expect [mu] to be progressively damped as window size increased.
- He applied sinusoidal compressions to the top of the I, and recorded how the structure damped the vibrations.
- With a D bearing next to the head, it is not possible to damp out normal tape vibrations.
- A little while ago he sent me a proposed solution by email, a method of moving the cup while you walk that should serve to damp the oscillations.
- Constitutive expression of SinR from P 3 damps the oscillations, leading to a stable steady state.
- If the oscillations are not damped out, they could break the fragile lines of other suspended weights and become amplified.
- The inner elements do the final guiding and also damp out vibrations normal to the tape plane to present a smooth motion over the head.
- Sometimes you have to go through several oscillations before you can damp out the yaw.
- The studies also indicate that the ceramic readily dissipates energy, meaning that it could be useful for damping vibrations in machinery.
- Head stack assembly have a coil portion for damping vibrations which includes elongated openings in the plastic portion
- Adding real-time modal analysis could potentially enhance this process, as disturbances are oscillatory and could be negatively damped.
- In this case, the accelerometers could damp or increase the vibrations through their contact with the vehicle.
Derivativesadjective ˈdampɪʃˈdæmpɪʃ Another dampish day, never quite raining, never absolutely dry. Example sentencesExamples - Our weather today is most disappointing, overcast and sort of dampish.
- Cook mushrooms and garlic in the butter gently, adding enough breadcrumbs to make a dampish stuffing.
- The ash is beyond dispute one of the most profitable coppice trees in Scotland; it grows freely and rapidly from stools in dampish glens.
- It was lunchtime on a dampish day which may have accounted for the small number of customers.
adverb ˈdampliˈdæmpli It was late June and unseasonably warm; small tendrils of her perfectly coiffed hair now clung damply to the back of her nape. Example sentencesExamples - I left with my head held high and my uncut locks damply streaming behind me.
- Twenty minutes later, skin still tingling and hair falling damply down her back, she trudged barefoot, dressed in jeans and an old sweat shirt toward her computer.
- The hair around her face was curling in the humidity, her face shining with sweat, her clothes hanging damply from her limbs.
- I sat up with my nightgown clinging damply to my back.
- A piece of cottonwood fluff brought low by the rain settles damply onto the hood of the truck.
OriginMiddle English (in the noun sense 'noxious inhalation'): of West Germanic origin; related to a Middle Low German word meaning 'vapour, steam, smoke'. We do not think of something damp as being dangerous, but the word originally meant a noxious gas. This use survives in firedamp (late 17th century), a name for methane gas, especially when it forms an explosive mixture with air in coal mines. Damp did not come to refer to wetness until the 18th century. The damp squib which failed to go off has probably always marred firework displays—a squib is a small firework that burns with a hissing sound before exploding. From the middle of the 19th century the phrase began to be used of situations and events that were much less impressive than expected. Nowadays, the phrase is sometimes heard as ‘damp squid’, people substituting a more familiar and more familiarly damp word for the rarer squib. See also fiasco, lead, lemon. Both damp and dank (Middle English) are Germanic in origin, but were not originally connected.
Rhymesamp, camp, champ, clamp, cramp, encamp, gamp, lamp, ramp, samp, scamp, stamp, tamp, tramp, vamp Definition of damp in US English: dampadjectivedæmpdamp Slightly wet. 潮的 her hair was still damp from the shower Example sentencesExamples - Her hair was slightly damp from the long hours of tears and her tired, blue eyes were puffy.
- The tubers can then be stored in boxes - though not the crowns - and covered with slightly damp peat ready for planting next year.
- She tossed the bundle of slightly damp clothing into the general vicinity of the tent and sat down on the grass beside him.
- I headed towards my favorite spot below the old weeping willow and sat on the slightly damp ground.
- When working with the phyllo leaves, keep a slightly damp towel over the leaves you are not currently using - and work quickly.
- Preferring light shade and slightly damp soil, this evergreen form sends out new growth annually from the base of the plant.
- Shaking her head, she sat herself down on a cold and slightly damp bench.
- An hour later, the slightly damp crew boarded the buses for the final leg home.
- The man in the mirror's blue-grey and slightly damp hair hung straight behind him, disappearing behind his bare shoulders.
- I padded quietly over to the door and opened it, looking up at Donovan's slightly damp face and hair.
- She sat on the cold, slightly damp stone and let her cloak drop, watching as it billowed around her ankles like a cloud of thick black smoke.
- Sweat drenched his body and there was a slightly damp patch on the sheet under him.
- With her back on the slightly damp grass, Selina watched the scattered clouds float by.
- They were followed by four very well dressed, slightly damp individuals, one of whom stepped wide around Jim as he passed.
- Knead well; let rise to double its size under a slightly damp towel in a warm place.
- Silently and with some relief, we exited and sat down on the slightly damp curb.
- With another sigh, she huddled closer to the trunk of the tree behind her, shivering slightly in the damp mist.
- She pulled Millie over to the washbasin on the table and began to wrap her finger with a thin, slightly damp wash rag.
- This morning I was wiping the table with a very slightly damp rag and noticed that the wax build-up was coming off.
- Sarah grabbed his wet hand when they entered the forest, he shivered slightly in the damp atmosphere.
Synonyms moist, moistened, wettish, dampened, dampish
noundæmpdamp 1Moisture diffused through the air or a solid substance or condensed on a surface, typically with detrimental or unpleasant effects. 潮湿 Example sentencesExamples - He could have coped a lot better were it not for the accompanying stomach cramps and cold sweat - there was enough damp in the room without his contributing to it.
- There was a problem with damp and mould at her home and a lack of security left Lilian feeling quite vulnerable at times.
- The mobile classrooms have damp, mould, crumbling walls, hazardous wiring, rotten beams, etc.
- He carefully draped it over Ramirez, and soon the warmth from the luxuriant fur stilled his chattering teeth and banished the damp.
- He slips it into his pocket, almost imagining that he can smell lavender and cigarette smoke even in the damp of the city.
- The sitting room reeked of damp and mould, the source of which was seeping through the plaster on the south-facing gable end.
- Mihradi bit her lip, finding that she was shaking… the damp must be getting to her.
- Thunder was a thunderstorm, normal was just rain, sprinkle was a light shower, and mist was just damp.
- Energy efficiency lowers maintenance costs as a result of reduced condensation and damp and makes it cheaper for landlords and tenants to heat their properties.
- If the walls were rendered with hard sand and cement, this would trap moisture, resulting in condensation or damp.
- The family soon found damp in Imogen's bedroom which caused green mould.
- Soon I was prowling the old family orchard while doing my best to keep the lock shielded from the damp.
- Nor is it contended that it results from rising damp or penetrating damp.
- But in the winter, the damp still creeps through the building and leaves the children shivering with cold.
- Now every one of the hundreds of things she has in stock has to be examined for water damage and damp.
- Hotter, drier summers will bring an increased risk of property subsidence, while wetter winters may cause damp, condensation and mould problems.
- The heat involved in cooking causes water to form on walls and ceilings and can, at worst, lead to patches of damp and mould.
- Centurion, even in the damp, retains an open and friendly atmosphere that is undoubtedly linked to its lack of formal structure.
- It was not until the building began to suffer the effects of damp that the council acted.
- Five minutes later, once the smoke and clouds of damp had cleared, she turned to me: ‘Why did you buy this?’
Synonyms moisture, dampness, humidity, wetness, wet, water, liquid, condensation, steam, vapour, clamminess, mugginess, dankness, wateriness - 1.1 Foul, stifling, or poisonous gas, especially in a mine.
Example sentencesExamples - Methane is a nonpoisonous, tasteless, odorless and colorless gas. It is also known as marsh gas (CH4) and, when mixed with air, it forms fire-damp.
- He had been asked to investigate "fire-damp" (methane gas) explosions in coal mines, caused by the candles miners used as lighting.
- If the flame got larger, they knew they were encountering "fire damp" (methane gas).
- 1.2dampsarchaic Damp air or atmosphere.
〈古〉湿气 Example sentencesExamples - A draught of this Medoc will defend us from the damps.
- Stay not in this evil den; for the air is chill, and the damps are fatal; nor will any, that perish within it, ever find the path to Heaven.
- Cliff said, "In those days they called it foul air, bad air, the damps. Air without oxygen is what I think it was.
2archaic A check or discouragement. 〈古〉挫败；气馁 shame gave a damp to her triumph 羞愧使她的胜利喜悦减色。 Example sentencesExamples - Even though defensive coordinators have had ample time to study the triplets, they have yet to discover how to put damps on them.
- The rising number of free services may have prompted a report circulating last week that AOL has put the damps on content partners, requiring them to limit links and joint ad campaigns with free ISPs.
verbdæmpdamp [with object]1Make (something) slightly wet. 使潮湿 damp a small area with water 用水打湿一小块地方。 Example sentencesExamples - When they were dry they were damped and rolled for the dampness to spread evenly before they were ironed with an iron heated and reheated on the stove.
- Alternatively, damp a cloth with kerosene oil and carefully wipe the insects off with it.
- The tooling was done by damping the surface of the tanned leather and pressing or sometimes stamping the design in with a fairly sharp metal, bone or wooden tool.
Synonyms moisten, wet, dew, water, irrigate, humidify dampen, moisten, wet, dew, water, irrigate, humidify 2Make a fire burn less strongly by reducing the flow of air to it. 把（火）调小；封（火） Example sentencesExamples - It took at least five hours to bring the blaze under control and we expect to be damping down at the scene for at least the rest of the day.
- After the building was damped down yesterday, structural experts deemed it unsound and ordered its demolition.
- It took 64 firemen around six hours to bring the blaze at the Alba Proteins Ltd plant at Wildriggs under control last Thursday morning and they were at the scene for a further eight hours damping down.
- Firefighters worked until just after 6pm damping down the blaze.
- Firefighters spent two hours damping down and searching for hot-spots in the walls after extinguishing the fire that destroyed Lidl's galvanized steel compound after midnight on Thursday night.
- Fire crews from Richmond, Kensington, North Kensington and Wembley remained at the scene, damping down the building, until late on Tuesday although the blaze was under control by 7.33 am.
- Fire crews stayed until nearly 5am damping the building down.
- Although I wasn't on duty for the fire, I was there in the evening damping it down.
- Six engines attended the fire, involving over 30 fire-fighters, and crews were still damping down the flames on Wednesday morning.
- Firefighters were expected to be at the mill for several hours damping down after the blaze and ensuring the site was safe.
- Firefighters were still damping down the building this morning.
- He said it took the two crews ten minutes to fight the fire with foam and ten minutes to damp the car down with water.
- Firefighters from Canvey had to spend two-and-a-half hours damping down the store.
- Basildon station officer Nick Beaver told how two crews took around 20 minutes to douse the flames and were there for another two hours damping down.
- Firefighters worked solidly for three hours to kill the flames, and spent a further 21 hours damping down the fire and making the building safe.
Synonyms muffle, deaden, stifle, dampen, damp down, smother, reduce, diminish, decrease, suppress, abate, tone down, moderate, silence, mute, still, quieten, soften, quell - 2.1 Control or restrain (a feeling or a state of affairs)
控制，限制（感情，事态） she tried to damp down her feelings of despair 她努力控制自己绝望的情绪。 Example sentencesExamples - Asian multilateralism will be critical not just for coordinating the region's booming economies, but also for damping down the nationalist passions lurking beneath the surface of every Asian country.
- Polley is unshowy and controlled in the star part, damping down her intelligence, beauty and almost all of her emotion for the role.
Synonyms lessen, decrease, diminish, reduce, lower, moderate, damp down, put a damper on, throw cold water on, calm, cool, chill, dull, blunt, tone down, deaden, temper, discourage
3Restrict the amplitude of vibrations on (a piano or other musical instrument) so as to reduce the volume of sound. 限止（钢琴或其他乐器琴弦）的音 rapidly damping the cymbals after repeatedly clashing them together Example sentencesExamples - This guitar also has an ebony arm-rest to keep your arm from damping the sound from the top.
- Although the escapement enables the hammer to fall away from the string, the damper is not allowed to fall back and damp the string until the key is released.
- 3.1Physics Progressively reduce the amplitude of (an oscillation or vibration)
〔物理〕减幅，阻尼 concrete structures damp out any vibrations Example sentencesExamples - He applied sinusoidal compressions to the top of the I, and recorded how the structure damped the vibrations.
- In this case, the accelerometers could damp or increase the vibrations through their contact with the vehicle.
- Head stack assembly have a coil portion for damping vibrations which includes elongated openings in the plastic portion
- A little while ago he sent me a proposed solution by email, a method of moving the cup while you walk that should serve to damp the oscillations.
- Constitutive expression of SinR from P 3 damps the oscillations, leading to a stable steady state.
- If the frequency of the sinusoidal oscillations in migration were higher, we would expect [mu] to be progressively damped as window size increased.
- If the oscillations are not damped out, they could break the fragile lines of other suspended weights and become amplified.
- Adding real-time modal analysis could potentially enhance this process, as disturbances are oscillatory and could be negatively damped.
- Sometimes you have to go through several oscillations before you can damp out the yaw.
- The studies also indicate that the ceramic readily dissipates energy, meaning that it could be useful for damping vibrations in machinery.
- When the signal is correlated with a dwell time much longer than its frequency, the signal gets effectively averaged out in each dwell time and the calculated correlation function gets damped.
- With a D bearing next to the head, it is not possible to damp out normal tape vibrations.
- The inner elements do the final guiding and also damp out vibrations normal to the tape plane to present a smooth motion over the head.
OriginMiddle English (in the noun sense ‘noxious inhalation’): of West Germanic origin; related to a Middle Low German word meaning ‘vapor, steam, smoke’. |