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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 (sense 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 (sense 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.]
   • 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.

   • 2024, Thérèse G. Lee Chan, David A. Janes, Kyle P. Joshua, “Filtering ‘3–2’ industrial symbiosis networks at a carbon-intensive cluster in a small island developing state to reuse CO₂ and water”, in Chemical Engineering Research and Design, volume 212, →DOI, page 45:

     In the original context of the World Wide Web the ’authorities’ are information sources, whereas herein the ’authorities’ are the material sinks. The hubs remain the ’naves’ in the link structure but are the sources of material. Continuing the wheel analogy, the authorities would be ‘spoke nipples’

   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.

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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