Associations to the word «Silencer»
Wiktionary
SILENCER, noun. Something that silences.
SILENCER, noun. An attachment to a gun or an exhaust pipe that reduces the sound it emits.
SILENCER, noun. The muffler of an internal combustion engine.
SILENCER, noun. Any of various devices to silence the humming noise of telegraph wires.
Dictionary definition
SILENCER, noun. Short tube attached to the muzzle of a gun that deadens the sound of firing.
SILENCER, noun. A tubular acoustic device inserted in the exhaust system that is designed to reduce noise.
Wise words
In words, as fashions, the same rule will hold; Alike
fantastic, if too new, or old: Be not the first by whom the
new are tried, Nor yet the last to lay the old aside.