Definition of Deadeners

1. Noun. (plural of deadener) ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Deadeners

1. deadener [n] - See also: deadener

Lexicographical Neighbors of Deadeners

deadbeat dad
deadbeat dads
deadbeats
deadbolt
deadbolted
deadbolting
deadbolts
deadborn
deade
deaded
deaden
deadend
deadends
deadened
deadener
deadeners (current term)
deadening
deadeningly
deadenings
deadens
deadenylase
deadenylases
deadenylate
deadenylated
deadenylates
deadenylating
deadenylation
deadenylations
deadenylylation
deader

Literary usage of Deadeners

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Handbook of Building Construction: Data for Architects, Designing and by George Albert Hool, Nathan Clarke Johnson (1920)
"Sound deadeners for Partitions.—To prevent the sounds from passing through the building by the full contact of the partitions with the floor construction, ..."

2. Handbook of Casinghead Gas by Henry Palmer Westcott (1922)
"Many companies will attempt to use washers carrying pin holes in half unions, one on either side of the gauge, or two deadeners in order to kill the ..."

3. A Dictionary of Applied Chemistry by Thomas Edward Thorpe (1912)
"... or deadeners aro added to reduce or control the rate of combustion of the explosive. Amongst these substances may bo mentioned camphor, vegetable oils, ..."

4. Milton's Paradise Lost: Books I and II by John Milton, Homer Baxter Sprague (1879)
"Of lines four and five, Landor remarks that they are ' incumbrances and deadeners of the harmony.' ' Incumbrances' ?—to let the dark shadow give way to a ..."

5. Milton's Paradise Lost, Books I and II: With Introduction, Notes, and Diagrams by John Milton, Homer Baxter Sprague (1888)
"deadeners of the harmony' ? De Quincey says, " Be assured it is yourself that do not read with understanding; not Milton that by possibility can be found ..."

6. Contributions to the Bacteriology of the Oyster by Woods Hutchinson, Hollis Godfrey, Rhode Island (State) Commissioners of shell-fisheries, Lester Angell Round (1914)
"The great majority of cough cures are little more than deadeners of the sensitiveness of the upper ..."

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