Etymology
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silence + -er
silencer (plural silencers)
- Something that silences
- An attachment to a gun or an exhaust pipe that reduces the sound it emits
- The muffler of an internal combustion engine.
1962 April, P. W. B. Semmens, “The Netherlands Railways today”, in Modern Railways, page 241:Before the fitting of silencers to these locomotives was completed by the end of 1961, they were very noisy in operation, but the effect of the silencer has been remarkable.
- Any of various devices to silence the humming noise of telegraph wires
- (genetics) Something that prevents gene expression
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- Belarusian: глушы́цель m (hlušýcjelʹ)
- Bulgarian: заглуши́тел (bg) m (zaglušítel)
- Catalan: silenciador m
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 消聲器／消声器 (zh) (xiāoshēngqì), 消音器 (zh) (xiāoyīnqì)
- Czech: tlumič m
- Danish: (firearms) lyddæmper c, (vehicles) lydpotte c
- Dutch: demper (nl), geluiddemper (nl) m
- Finnish: äänenvaimennin (fi)
- French: silencieux (fr) m
- Georgian: მაყუჩი (maq̇uči)
- German: Schalldämpfer (de) m
- Greek: σιγαστήρας (el) m (sigastíras)
- Hungarian: hangtompító (hu)
- Irish: ciúnadóir m
- Italian: silenziatore (it) m
- Japanese: 消音器 (ja) (しょうおんき, shōonki), サイレンサー (ja) (sairensā), マフラー (ja) (mafurā)
- Korean: 소음기 (so'eumgi), 머플러 (meopeulleo)
- Latvian: slāpētājs m, klusinātājs m
- Macedonian: приду́шувач m (pridúšuvač), а́успух m (áuspuh)
- Norwegian:
- Bokmål: lyddemper m, (vehicles, boats) lydpotte m or f
- Nynorsk: lyddempar m, (vehicles, boats) lydpotte f
- Polish: tłumik (pl) m
- Portuguese: silenciador (pt) m
- Romanian: silențiator (ro) n
- Russian: глуши́тель (ru) m (glušítelʹ)
- Sardinian: amudadore m
- Serbo-Croatian:
- Cyrillic: ауспух m
- Roman: auspuh m
- Spanish: silenciador m
- Swedish: ljuddämpare (sv) c
- Tagalog: silensyador, pang-alis-ingay, pamatay-tunog
- Turkish: susturucu (tr)
- Ukrainian: глушни́к m (hlušnýk)
- Welsh: distawydd f
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something that silences another thing
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