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nip·ple
(nĭp′əl)n.
1.
a. The small projection near the center of the mammary gland containing the outlets of the milk ducts through which young mammals obtain milk from the adult female; a teat.
b. A corresponding projection of the male breast.
2.
a. The rubber cap on a bottle from which a baby nurses.
b. A pacifier for an infant.
3. Any of various devices functioning like or resembling a nipple, especially:
a. A regulated opening for discharging a liquid, as in a small stopcock.
b. A pipe coupling threaded on both ends.
c. A short extension of pipe to which a nozzle can be attached.
d. A small projection through which grease in a grease gun can be forced into a bearing.
4. A natural or geographic projection resembling a nipple, as a mountain crest.
[From obsolete neble, diminutive of neb.]
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nipple
(ˈnɪpəl)n
1. (Anatomy) Also called: mamilla, papilla or teat the small conical projection in the centre of the areola of each breast, which in women contains the outlet of the milk ducts.
2. something resembling a nipple in shape or function
3. (Mechanical Engineering) Also called: grease nipple a small drilled bush, usually screwed into a bearing, through which grease is introduced
4. US and Canadian an informal word for dummy11
[C16: from earlier neble, nible, perhaps from neb, nib]
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nip•ple
(ˈnɪp əl)n.
1. a protuberance of the mamma or breast where, in the female, the milk ducts discharge; teat.
2. something resembling it, as the mouthpiece of a nursing bottle or pacifier.
3. a short piece of pipe with threads on each end, used for joining valves.
[1520–30; earlier neble, nib(b)le, nepil; compare Dan nip point]
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nip·ple
(nĭp′əl) A small projection near the center of the mammary gland, as of the human breast, containing in females the outlets of the milk ducts.
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nipple
The conical projection on a breast, which contains the outlets of the milk ducts.
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| Noun | 1. |  nipple - the small projection of a mammary glandreproductive organ, sex organ - any organ involved in sexual reproduction mammary gland, mamma - milk-secreting organ of female mammals |
| 2. | nipple - a flexible cap on a baby's feeding bottle or pacifier feeding bottle, nursing bottle, bottle - a vessel fitted with a flexible teat and filled with milk or formula; used as a substitute for breast feeding infants and very young children cap - a top (as for a bottle) |
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nipple
noun teat, breast, boob (slang), udder, dug, tit, pap, papilla, mamilla Most newborn mammals possess an instinctive urge to seek out their mother's nipple.
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Translations
حلمةحَلَمَهمَصّاصَة قَنينَة الحَليب
bradavkadudlík
brystvortesuttehoved
geirvartatútta
papilla
spenelisspenysžindukas
knupītiskrūtsgals
prsna bradavica
bradavicasisak
biberon emziğimeme başı/ucuşişe emziği
nipple
[ˈnɪpl] NCollins Spanish Dictionary - Complete and Unabridged 8th Edition 2005 © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1971, 1988 © HarperCollins Publishers 1992, 1993, 1996, 1997, 2000, 2003, 2005
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nipple
n
(Tech) → Nippel m
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Collins Italian Dictionary 1st Edition © HarperCollins Publishers 1995
nipple
(ˈnipl) noun1. the darker, pointed part of a woman's breast from which a baby sucks milk; the equivalent part of a male breast.
2. (American) the rubber mouth-piece of a baby's feeding-bottle; a teat.
Kernerman English Multilingual Dictionary © 2006-2013 K Dictionaries Ltd.
nip·ple
n. pezón; [of male] tetilla; [nursing bottle] mamadera, tetera;
cracked ___ → ___ agrietado;
engorged ___ → ___ enlechado;
retracted ___ → ___ retractado.
English-Spanish Medical Dictionary © Farlex 2012
nipple
n (female) pezón m; (male) tetilla; (of a baby bottle) tetina; — shield pezoneraEnglish-Spanish/Spanish-English Medical Dictionary Copyright © 2006 by The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc. All rights reserved.