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1. WordNet® 3.0 (2006) |
damp
adj 1: slightly wet; "clothes damp with perspiration"; "a moist
breeze"; "eyes moist with tears" [syn: damp, dampish,
moist]
n 1: a slight wetness [syn: damp, dampness, moistness]
v 1: deaden (a sound or noise), especially by wrapping [syn:
muffle, mute, dull, damp, dampen, tone down]
2: restrain or discourage; "the sudden bad news damped the
joyous atmosphere"
3: make vague or obscure or make (an image) less visible;
"muffle the message" [syn: dampen, deaden, damp]
4: lessen in force or effect; "soften a shock"; "break a fall"
[syn: dampen, damp, soften, weaken, break]
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2. The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 |
Damp \Damp\ (d[a^]mp), a. [Compar. Damper; superl. Dampest.]
1. Being in a state between dry and wet; moderately wet;
moist; humid.
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O'erspread with a damp sweat and holy fear.
--Dryden.
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2. Dejected; depressed; sunk. [R.]
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All these and more came flocking, but with looks
Downcast and damp. --Milton.
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3. The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 |
Damp \Damp\ (d[a^]mp), n. [Akin to LG., D., & Dan. damp vapor,
steam, fog, G. dampf, Icel. dampi, Sw. damb dust, and to MNG.
dimpfen to smoke, imp. dampf.]
1. Moisture; humidity; fog; fogginess; vapor.
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Night . . . with black air
Accompanied, with damps and dreadful gloom.
--Milton.
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2. Dejection; depression; cloud of the mind.
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Even now, while thus I stand blest in thy presence,
A secret damp of grief comes o'er my soul.
--Addison.
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It must have thrown a damp over your autumn
excursion. --J. D.
Forbes.
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3. (Mining) A gaseous product, formed in coal mines, old
wells, pints, etc.
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Choke damp, a damp consisting principally of carbonic 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 tendence to explode when
mixed with atmospheric air and brought into contact with
flame.
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4. The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 |
Damp \Damp\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Damped; p. pr. & vb. n.
Damping.] [OE. dampen to choke, suffocate. See Damp, n.]
1. To render damp; to moisten; to make humid, or moderately
wet; to dampen; as, to damp cloth.
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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. "To damp your tender
hopes." --Akenside.
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Usury dulls and damps all industries, improvements,
and new inventions, wherein money would be stirring
if it were not for this slug. --Bacon.
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How many a day has been damped and darkened by an
angry word! --Sir J.
Lubbock.
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The failure of his enterprise damped the spirit of
the soldiers. --Macaulay.
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5. The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 |
deoxyribonucleotide \deoxyribonucleotide\ n.
an organic molecule consisting of a hereocyclic base attached
to the 1-carbon of a deoxyribose ring, with a phosphate group
esterified at the 5 position of the deoxyribose.
Deoxyribonuceotides are the monomer units which make up
deoxyribonucleic acid, the molecule carrying the hereditary
information in most organisms. The most common forms of
deoxyribonuceotide are thymidine-5'-phosphate (abbreviated
TMP), deoxyadenosine-5'-phosphate (abbreviated dAMP),
deoxyguanosine-5'-phosphate (abbreviated dGMP), and
deoxycytidine-5'-phosphate (abbreviated dCMP).
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Thesaurus Results for Damp:
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1. Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 |
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Common Misspellings > |
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