英和和英

別の表記

• neple, nypil, nyppell, neapel, neaple, neble (obsolete)

語源

From earlier neple, nypil, neble, believed to be a diminutive of nib, neb (“tip, point”), equivalent to nib +‎ -le. Compare 古期英語 nypel (“elephant trunk”), formed analogously as "a protuberance from one's neb" .

発音

• IPA: /ˈnɪp.əl/, [ˈnɪpʰ.əl] ~ [ˈnɪpʰ.l̩]
• 韻: -ɪpəl
• ハイフネーション: nip‧ple

名詞

nipple (plural nipples)

1. (anatomy) The projection of a mammary gland from which, on female therian mammals, milk is secreted. [from 16th c.]

   Synonyms: tit; see also Thesaurus:nipples

   • 1964, Philip K. Dick, “THREE”, in Clans of the Alphane Moon, United States: Ace Books, →OCLC; republished London: HarperCollinsPublishers, 1996, →ISBN, page 27:

     Mary felt annoyed at the girl; just because bras had become passé, did a girl with so pronounced a bosom have to cater to fashion? In this case practicality dictated a bra, and Mary stood at the desk feeling herself flushing with disapproval. And artificial nipple-dilation; it was just too much.

2. The nipple (definition 1) and the areola together.
   • 1964, Philip K. Dick, “FOUR”, in Clans of the Alphane Moon, United States: Ace Books, →OCLC; republished London: HarperCollinsPublishers, 1996, →ISBN, page 37:

     Joan Trieste wore skin-tight dark pants and slippers and a cotton man’s-style shirt; as far as he could tell, she had on no bra, as fashion dictated, but her nipples were merely flat dark circles beneath the white cotton fabric of her shirt: she could not afford or did not care to have the currently-popular dilation operation.

3. A mechanical device through which liquids or gases can be passed in a regulated manner. [from 16th c.]
4. An artificial nipple (definition 1) used for bottle-feeding infants. [from 17th c.]

   Synonym: teat

5. Any small physical protrusion, such as the lumps on the F and J keys on computer keyboards.
6. Any small physical protrusion on an automotive, a machine part or any other part that fits into a groove on another part.
7. (now chiefly historical) A perforated segment that fits into part of the breech of a muzzle-loading gun, on which the percussion cap is fixed. [from 19th c.]
   • 2013, Philipp Meyer, The Son, Simon & Schuster, published 2014, page 23:

     I could tell he didn't agree but he went to the corner and took up his squirrel gun, feeling the nipple for a percussion cap.

8. (plumbing, chiefly US) A short tube threaded at both ends, used as a connector. [from 19th c.]
9. (cycling) An internally threaded piece which holds a bicycle spoke in place on the rim. [from 20th c.]

   Turn the nipples on to the bicycle spokes only one turn, for each spoke on the new wheel all the way around until they are all snug, then check alignment.

   • 1921, W. F. Grew, The Cycle Industry, London, page 5:

     These were first constructed by heading the spokes, threading them through a steel felloe or rim and inserting them into screwed nipples which were in their turn screwed into the flanges of the hub.

10. (computing, humorous) A pointing stick.

派生語

派生した語

• → Dutch: nippel
• → German: Nippel
  • → Danish: nippel
• → Norwegian: nippel

動詞

nipple (third-person singular simple present nipples, present participle nippling, simple past and past participle nippled)

1. (transitive) To fit (a baby's bottle, etc.) with a nipple.
2. (transitive) To give one's nipple to (a baby) to allow breastfeeding.

参考

• smuggling raisins

Further reading

• nipple on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

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