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muffler

Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English 5++朗文当代英语 5++LDOCE 5++朗文 5++
Related topics: Clothes, Motor vehicles
muf·fler /ˈmʌflə $ -ər/ noun [countable]  1. DCCa long piece of thick cloth that you wear to keep your neck warm 厚围巾 SYN scarf2. American EnglishTTC a piece of equipment on a vehicle that makes the noise from the engine quieter 〔汽车引擎的〕消音器,灭声器 SYN British English silencer
Examples from the Corpus
mufflerThen they would sell them to posses from a garage on Bruckner Boulevard that doubled as a muffler repair shop.He opened it, and a figure whose face was obscured by a muffler pushed past him and ran into the quad.Wear a muffler in the cold night air.He put it on, together with his hat and wrapped a muffler close about his neck.This range also includes women's outfits, mittens, socks and muffler.They drove old cars with bad mufflers.He replaced the battered muffler and gave his Baby a new transmission.He could still hear the door slamming too, and there, that clatter, that was the muffler pipe.
muf·fler nounChineseSyllable
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muffler
muffler /ˈmʌflə $ -ər/ noun [countable]
1. a long piece of thick cloth that you wear to keep your neck warm
   SYN  scarf
2. American English a piece of equipment on a vehicle that makes the noise from the engine quieter
   SYN  silencer British English


muf·flerBrE /ˈmʌflə(r)/ 🔊NAmE /ˈmʌflər/ 🔊 noun(old-fashioned) a thick piece of cloth worn around the neck for warmth 围巾 SYN scarf
(NAmE) (BrE si·len·cer) a device that is fixed to the exhaust of a vehicle in order to reduce the amount of noise that the engine makes (发动机的)消音器
a device that is fitted to an instrument in order to reduce the amount of noise that it makes, or to a camera, a microphone, etc. to reduce the amount of noise coming from things that you do not want to record 消声器;减声器