diaper
Americannoun
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a piece of cloth or other absorbent material folded and worn as underpants by a baby not yet toilet-trained.
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Also called diaper cloth. a linen or cotton fabric with a woven pattern of small, constantly repeated figures, as diamonds.
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Also called diaper pattern. such a pattern, originally used in the Middle Ages in weaving silk and gold.
verb (used with object)
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to put a diaper on.
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to ornament with a diaperlike pattern.
noun
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Also called (in Britain and certain other countries): nappy. a piece of soft material, esp towelling or a disposable material, wrapped around a baby in order to absorb its excrement
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a woven pattern on fabric consisting of a small repeating design, esp diamonds
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fabric having such a pattern
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such a pattern, used as decoration
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verb
Other Word Forms
- undiapered adjective
Etymology
Origin of diaper
1300–50; Middle English diapre < Anglo-French dia(s)p(r)e < Medieval Latin diasprus made of diaper < Medieval Greek díaspros pure white, equivalent to Greek di- di- 3 ( def. ) + Medieval Greek áspros white
Example Sentences
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Kimberly-Clark’s chief executive aims to spread its approach to developing diapers across the company and bets he can add features while keeping down prices.
It has also achieved the breakthrough of managing to use the pulp, which makes up the bulk of a diaper, to make new ones.
From Barron's
She was getting big enough for Size 3 diapers.
From Salon
Unlike many of Amazon’s rural hubs, the Missoula facility also keeps hundreds of items in stock for same-day delivery, such as diapers, dog food and cinnamon roll-flavored protein bread rolls.
This leads, Mr. Hazzard writes, to “the constant gushing of fluids, all of them, into a diaper. It’s death by humiliation, by torment.”
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