<p><strong>Noun:</strong></p><ul><li>a person or thing that damps or depresses: His glum mood put a damper on their party.</li><li>a movable plate for regulating the draft in a stove, furnace, etc.</li><li>a device in stringed keyboard instruments to deaden the vibration of the strings.</li><li>the mute of a brass instrument, as a horn.</li><li>an attachment to keep the indicator of a measuring instrument from oscillating excessively, as a set of vanes in a fluid or a short-circuited winding in a magnetic field.</li><li>a shock absorber.</li><li>a round, flat cake made of flour and water, and cooked over a campfire.</li><li>the dough for such cakes.</li></ul><p><strong>End of Response</strong></p>