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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