silencer
IPA: sˈaɪɫʌnsɝ
noun
- 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.
- Any of various devices to silence the humming noise of telegraph wires
- (genetics) Something that prevents gene expression
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Examples of "silencer" in Sentences
- I had an old Magnum .45 that I had had custom made for me, with a built-in silencer.
- A silencer is basically a muffler that can change the performace and sound of the snowmobile.
- A silencer is a device that attaches to the end of a gun and helps diminish the noise that a gun creates when it fires.
- Should any of them lose the luster off that lone dimension, be sure your silencer is on ... and then give 'em the ol 'heave-ho.
- But why didn't technology come up with a way to make it cheaper to fly at supersonic speeds, and quieter, some kind of silencer for that sonic boom.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
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