dAMP

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}]
    

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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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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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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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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357 Moby Thesaurus words for "damp":
      abate, abridge, absorb the shock, acoustic tile, afterdamp, allay,
      alleviate, antiknock, arrest, asperge, asphyxiate, assimilate to,
      assuage, attemper, attenuate, baffle, baffler, balance,
      bank the fire, beat down, bedew, bespatter, besprinkle, blackdamp,
      blow out, blunt, bogginess, boggy, bottle up, break the fall,
      breath, cast down, censor, chasten, check, chill, choke, choke off,
      chokedamp, clamminess, clammy, clamp down on, cloud, cold water,
      compress, constrain, control, cool, cork, cork up, countercheck,
      crack down on, cramp, crepehanger, cripple, crush, curb, curtail,
      cushion, cut, cut back, cut down, dabble, dam up, damp down,
      dampen, dampen the spirits, dampener, damper, dampish, dampness,
      dank, darken, dash, de-emphasize, deaden, deafen, debilitate,
      decrease, deduct, deflate, deflect, deject, delay, depreciate,
      depress, detain, deter, determent, deterrent, devitalize, dew,
      dewiness, dewy, diminish, disaffect, discourage, discouragement,
      dishearten, disincline, disinterest, dispirit, distract, divert,
      douche, douse, downgrade, downplay, drenched, drown, dull,
      effluvium, enervate, enfeeble, equalize, equilibrize, even,
      eviscerate, exhalation, exhaust, extenuate, extinguish, exudation,
      fenny, fetid air, firedamp, flatten, flatus, fluid, fogginess,
      fume, gag, gruel, harmonize, hinder, hold back, hold down,
      hold in check, hold up, homogenize, hose, hose down, humect,
      humectate, humectation, humid, humidify, humidity, humor,
      hushcloth, impede, indispose, inhibit, intercept, interfere,
      intermeddle, interrupt, intervene, irrigate, jump on, keep back,
      keep down, keep in check, keep under, keep within bounds, kill,
      killjoy, knock down, lay, lay low, lenify, lessen, level, lighten,
      lower, lower the spirits, make uniform, malaria, marshiness,
      marshy, meddle, mephitis, miasma, mistiness, misty, mitigate,
      moderate, modulate, moist, moisten, moistiness, moistness,
      moisture, muffle, muffler, muggy, mute, muzzle, neutralize,
      normalize, obtund, offset, oppose, oppress, out, paddle, palliate,
      pare, pessimist, play down, pour water on, press down,
      puff of smoke, put down, put off, put out, quash, quell, quench,
      quietener, rainfall, raininess, rainy, rattle, reduce,
      reduce the temperature, reek, regularize, regulate, repel, repress,
      resist, restrain, retard, retrench, roll back, roric, sadden, sap,
      saturated, scale down, scotch, set back, shake, shake up, shorten,
      show consideration, show mercy, show pity, showeriness,
      shut down on, silence, silence cloth, silencer, simplify, sink,
      sit down on, sit on, slack, slacken, slobber, slop, slosh,
      slow down, smash, smoke, smooth, smother, smudge, snub, snuff,
      snuff out, soaked, soaking, sober, sober down, soddenness,
      soft pedal, soft-pedal, soften, soften the blow, soften up,
      sogginess, soggy, soppiness, sordine, sordino,
      sound-absorbing material, soundproofing, soundproofing insulation,
      sourdine, sparge, spatter, splash, splatter, spoilsport, sponge,
      spray, sprinkle, squash, squelch, stabilize, stamp out, stanch,
      standardize, steam, steamy, step down, stereotype, sticky, stifle,
      stop, strangle, stultify, subdue, suffocate, suppress, swampiness,
      swampy, swash, symmetrize, syringe, tacky, take from, tame, temper,
      throttle, tone down, tune down, turn aside, turn away, turn from,
      turn off, unbrace, undermine, underplay, undried, uniformize,
      unman, unnerve, unstrengthen, unstring, vapor, volatile, water,
      water vapor, wateriness, weaken, wean from, weigh heavy upon,
      weigh upon, wet, wet blanket, wet down, wetness, wettish,
      wettishness