from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
noun One that silences, especially a device attached to the muzzle of a firearm to muffle the sound of firing.
from The Century Dictionary.
noun One who or that which silences.
noun Same as muffler .
noun A device, invented by H. P. Maxim, for silencing, or greatly reducing, the noise produced by the discharge of a rifle or other firearm.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
noun The muffler of an internal-combustion engine.
noun Any of various devices to silence the humming noise of telegraph wires.
noun A device for silencing the report of a firearm shooting its projectiles singly, as a tubular attachment for the muzzle having circular plates that permit the passage of the projectile but impart a rotary motion to, and thus retard, the exploding gases.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
noun An attachment to a gun or an exhaust pipe that reduces the sound it emits.
noun Something that silences another thing.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
noun a tubular acoustic device inserted in the exhaust system that is designed to reduce noise
noun short tube attached to the muzzle of a gun that deadens the sound of firing
Etymologies
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silence + -er
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Examples
A silencer is basically a muffler that can change the performace and sound of the snowmobile.
If you have fired a weapon indoors without hearing protection, let alone in the dark and under stress, I think you will agree that lack of a silencer is a material burden on self defense.
We found the paperwork for a Treasury Department stamp tax of two hundred dollars for a class III device, approved by ATF, called a suppressor, which you would call a silencer.
We found the paperwork for a Treasury Department stamp tax of two hundred dollars for a class III device, approved by ATF, called a suppressor, which you would call a silencer.
We found the paperwork for a Treasury Department stamp tax of two hundred dollars for a class III device, approved by ATF, called a suppressor, which you would call a silencer.
The company claims that configuration options include an easy-to-read built-in pressure gauge and an exhaust silencer, which is a safety device in its own right.
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