{ "dictype": "WikiDicScrap", "error": false, "code": 200, "json": { "type": "wiki", "pronunciations": { "phonetic": [ "dæmp" ], "listenurl": [ { "lang": "Audio (US)", "url": "/var/www/html/blab/dic/audio/us/damp.ogg" }, { "lang": "Audio (US)", "url": "/var/www/html/blab/dic/audio/us/damp.mp3" } ] }, "meansorg": { "etymologies": [ "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." ], "typelist": [ { "name": "Adjective", "meanlist": [ { "mean": "In a state between dry and wet; moderately wet; moist.\n25 January 2017, Leena Camadoo writing in The Guardian, Dominican banana producers at sharp end of climate change\nOnce the farms have been drained and the dead plants have been cut down and cleared, farmers then have to be alert for signs of black sigatoka, a devastating fungus which flourishes in damp conditions and can destroy banana farms.\nTemplate:RQ:Dryden Aeneid\nThe lawn was still damp so we decided not to sit down.\nThe paint is still damp, so please don't touch it." }, { "mean": "(figuratively) Despondent; dispirited, downcast.\n27 July 2016, Jane O’Faherty in The Irish Independent, Monarchs and prison officers win big on second race day\nThough Travis's 'Why does it always Rain on Me' boomed around the stands, there were few damp spirits in Galway on day two of the races.\n1667, John Milton, “Book I”, in Paradise Lost. , London: , , →OCLC; republished as Paradise Lost in Ten Books: , London: Basil Montagu Pickering , 1873, →OCLC, lines 522-3:All these and more came flocking; but with looks / Down cast and damp." }, { "mean": "2002, Dana Stabenow, A Fine and Bitter Snow, →ISBN, page 32:The Roadhouse was twenty-seve miles down the road from Niniltna, nine feet and three inches outside the Niniltna Native Association's tribal jurisdiction, and therefore not subject to the dry law currently in effect. Or was it damp? Kate thought it might have changed, yet again, at the last election, from dry to damp, or maybe it was from wet to damp." } ] }, { "name": "Noun", "meanlist": [ { "mean": "Moisture; humidity; dampness.\nc. 1604–1605 (date written), William Shakespeare, “All’s VVell, that Ends VVell”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies  (First Folio), London: Isaac Iaggard, and Ed Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, :Ere twice in murk and occidental dampMoist Hesperus hath quench’d his sleepy lamp,\n1764, Elizabeth Griffith, Amana, London: W. Johnston, Act V, p. 49,\nWhat means this chilling damp that clings around me!\nWhy do I tremble thus!\n1848, Elizabeth Gaskell, Mary Barton, Chapter 10,\nUnceasing, 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.\n1928, Virginia Woolf, chapter 5, in Orlando: A Biography, London: The Hogarth Press, →OCLC; republished as Orlando: A Biography (eBook no. 0200331h.html), Australia: Project Gutenberg Australia, July 2015:But what was worse, damp now began to make its way into every house—damp, which is the most insidious of all enemies, for while the sun can be shut out by blinds, and the frost roasted by a hot fire, damp steals in while we sleep; damp is silent, imperceptible, ubiquitous.\n2005, Kazuo Ishiguro, Never Let Me Go, London: Faber, 2010, Chapter 10, p. 115,\nWe sometimes kept our Wellingtons on the whole day, leaving trails of mud and damp through the rooms." }, { "mean": "(archaic) Fog; fogginess; vapor.\n1667, John Milton, “Book X”, in Paradise Lost. , London: , , →OCLC; republished as Paradise Lost in Ten Books: , London: Basil Montagu Pickering , 1873, →OCLC:Night with black air / Accompanied, with damps and dreadful gloom.\n1810, Percy Bysshe Shelley and Elizabeth Shelley, “Warrior” in Original Poetry by Victor and Cazire, London: John Lane, 1898, p. 57,\nHer chilling finger on my head,\nWith coldest touch congealed my soul—\nCold as the finger of the dead,\nOr damps which round a tombstone roll—\n1886 May – 1887 April, Thomas Hardy, “chapter 40”, in The Woodlanders , volume (please specify |volume=I to III), London; New York, N.Y.: Macmillan and Co., published 1887, →OCLC: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." }, { "mean": "(archaic) Dejection or depression; something that spoils a positive emotion (such as enjoyment, satisfaction, expectation or courage) or a desired activity.\n1712 (date written), Addison, Cato, a Tragedy. , London: J Tonson, , published 1713, →OCLC, Act V, scene iii, page 35:Ev’n now, while thus I stand blest in thy Presence,A secret Damp of Grief comes o’er my Thoughts,\n1728, George Carleton (attributed to Daniel Defoe), The Memoirs of an English Officer, London: E. Symon, p. 72,\nBut though the War was proclaim’d, and Preparations accordingly made for it, the Expectations from all receiv’d a sudden Damp, by the as sudden Death of King William.\n1769, , Observations on a Late State of the Nation, 3rd edition, London: J Dodsley, , →OCLC, page 33:It is in this spirit that some have looked upon those accidents, that cast an occasional damp upon trade.\n1813 January 27, , chapter 50, in Pride and Prejudice, volume (please specify |volume=I to III), London: for T Egerton , →OCLC:No sentiment of shame gave a damp to her triumph.\n1849 May – 1850 November, Charles Dickens, chapter 10, in The Personal History of David Copperfield, London: Bradbury & Evans, , published 1850, →OCLC: Mrs. Gummidge , I am sorry to relate, cast a damp upon the festive character of our departure, by immediately bursting into tears \n1866, James David Forbes, letter to A. Wills dated 2 January, 1866, in Life and Letters of James David Forbes, London: Macmaillan, 1873, p. 429,\n I was concerned to hear from your brother that Mrs. Wills’ health had prevented her accompanying you to Sixt as usual. It must have thrown a damp over your autumn excursion" }, { "mean": "(archaic or historical, mining) A gaseous product, formed in coal mines, old wells, pits, etc.\n1733, John Arbuthnot, An Essay Concerning the Effects of Air on Human Bodies, London: Jacob Tonson, Chapter 1, p. 19,\nThere are sulphurous Vapours which infect the Vegetables, and render the Grass unwholsom to the Cattle that feed upon it: Miners are often hurt by these Steams. Observations made in some of the Mines in Derbyshire, describe four sorts of those Damps." } ] }, { "name": "Verb", "meanlist": [ { "mean": "(transitive, archaic) To dampen; to make moderately wet\nSynonym: moisten\nto damp cloth" }, { "mean": "(transitive, archaic) To put out, as fire; to weaken, restrain, or make dull.\n1887, Sir John Lubbock, The Pleasures of Life\nHow many a day has been damped and darkened by an angry word!\n1855 December – 1857 June, Charles Dickens, “Book 1 Chapter 34”, in Little Dorrit, London: Bradbury and Evans, , published 1857, →OCLC:My Lords, that I am yet to be told that it behoves a Minister of this free country to set bounds to the philanthropy, to cramp the charity, to fetter the public spirit, to contract the enterprise, to damp the independent self-reliance of its people.\n1849–1861, Thomas Babington Macaulay, The History of England from the Accession of James the Second, volume (please specify |volume=I to V), London: Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, →OCLC:The failure of his enterprise damped the spirit of the soldiers.\n1744, Mark Akenside, The Pleasures of the Imagination\nI do not mean to wake the gloomy form Of superstition dress'd in wisdom's garb, To damp your tender hopes\n1625, Francis , “(please specify the chapter)”, in The Essayes , 3rd edition, London: Iohn Haviland for Hanna Barret, →OCLC:Usury dulls and damps all industries, improvements, and new inventions, wherein money would be stirring if it were not for this slug" }, { "mean": "(transitive) To suppress vibrations (mechanical) or oscillations (electrical) by converting energy to heat (or some other form of energy).\n1960 February, “The first of London's new Piccadilly Line trains is delivered”, in Trains Illustrated, page 93:Hydraulic shock absorbers are used to damp out vertical and lateral oscillations." } ] } ] }, "meanskor": { "etymologies": [ "" ], "typelist": [ { "name": "형용사", "meanlist": [ { "mean": "" }, { "mean": "" }, { "mean": "" } ] }, { "name": "명사", "meanlist": [ { "mean": "" }, { "mean": "" }, { "mean": "" }, { "mean": "" } ] }, { "name": "동사.", "meanlist": [ { "mean": "" }, { "mean": "" }, { "mean": "" } ] } ] } } }