diaper
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
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Etymology: From Middle English dyaper, diapre, dyapre, from Old French diapre, dyapre, a variant of dyaspre, diaspre (“ornamental silk cloth embellished with floral or decorative geometrical patterns”), from Medieval Latin diaspra, diasprum (“a type of rich, valuable silken cloth”), probably from Byzantine Greek δίασπρος (díaspros, “very white; pure white”, adjective), from δια- (dia-, “across”) + ἄσπρος (áspros, “white”).
Inflected forms:
form: diapers
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: dyaper
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: diapre
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: dyapre
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: dieper
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: dyoper
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: dyeper
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: dioper
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: dipar
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: diapers
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: diapering
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: diapered
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: diapered
pos: verb
tags: past
form: dyaper
pos: verb
tags: alternative
form: diapre
pos: verb
tags: alternative
form: dyapre
pos: verb
tags: alternative
form: dieper
pos: verb
tags: alternative
form: dyoper
pos: verb
tags: alternative
form: dyeper
pos: verb
tags: alternative
form: dioper
pos: verb
tags: alternative
form: dipar
pos: verb
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: An absorbent garment worn around the crotch that retains the wearer's urine and feces, often worn by a baby or young child who is not yet toilet trained, or by an adult who is incontinent or wets the bed, or under extreme working conditions without access to a toilet; a nappy.
pos: noun
tags: Canada
India
Philippines
US
countable
uncountable
examples: cloth diaper, disposable diaper, nighttime diaper, swim diaper
A bag of baby-clothes, containing 1 ſheet, 1 ſhi[r]t, 1 bedgown, 12 diapers, 2 child's bedgowns, 2 child's ſhirts, 2 child's robes, 2 child's nightcaps and a wrapper.
You push it up the vagina while lying on your back, and retain it there by a bandage around, as in wearing diapers. It may be taken out at night after laying down; but must be pushed up in the morning before rising.
We have repeatedly known children have from six to ten discharges of yellow-coloured fæces per day, for many days, without injury, provided they nursed well and were well attended to. […] We are far from wishing to make nurses or mothers indifferent to this state of things, but we do wish, for the sake of the welfare of the important little beings intrusted to their care, that they will not think, because they are too free in the bowels, and give the nurse a great deal of trouble to change the diapers frequently, they must take paregoric to check them.
Perhaps you will find space in your charming magazine for the following description of suspenders I made to keep my baby's diaper in place. I had never seen them before, although other mothers may have something similar for the purpose.
A midwife should always visit her patient within twelve hours after labour, and she should make a routine practice of enquiring whether or not her urine has been passed. […] She must thoroughly cleanse her patient, change her diaper, tighten or change her binder, and clear away all soiled things from under her.
Some things we were sure of: there would be automatic heat, enough bedrooms to go around, space in the bathroom for a diaper-change while Daddy shaved, plenty of closets, and of course that the kitchen with a minimum of steps.
Either birds-eye cotton or flannelette diapers are good. The newer gauze variety is very satisfactory. They are more expensive, but you need fewer of them as they are so easily washed and they dry so quickly.
The company manufactured an unfitted adult diaper, modeled on early versions of disposable baby diapers.
In "Three Men and a Baby," Tom Selleck's Peter, an architect, after being utterly puzzled by the construction of what he is about to attempt, fails miserably: the diaper falls off.
A dirty diaper can be unpleasant to an infant; it may develop into a rash if it isn't attended to promptly, and a rash can make an infant even more demanding (wanting our comfort).
Disposable diapers are primarily composed of polymers, such as cellulose, polypropylene, polyester, and polyethylene, which are biologically inert and not bio-available.
What was marketed as a tool for convenience by the Pampers maker Procter & Gamble in the 1960s eroded the incentives to start potty training early, freeing children from the feeling of wetness that comes from cloth and freeing parents from the inconvenience of washing used diapers or sending them out to be professionally cleaned.
gloss: A textile fabric having a repeating pattern, especially of diamonds or flowers, formed by alternating directions of thread.
pos: noun
tags: countable
historical
uncountable
examples: Near-synonym: diamond twill
Diaper table clothes the peece containing xx.yards xl.s
Where's that knaue Pipkin, bid him ſpred the Fetch the cleane diaper napkins from my cheſt, Set out the guilded ſalt, and bid the fellow.
Then the young Gentleman takes upon him to call the Maid, for he has in a manner two homes for the preſent; and bids her bring a Bottle of Sack, Straight up comes the Maid with a Bottle, a clean Glaſs, and a Diaper Napkin, and the Mother drinks to Mrs. Prittle-prattle.
Item, I bequeath, to the uſe of the ſame church, an howſeling towell of diaper, and an altar cloath of diaper, there to remain.
Diaper is a ſort of linen cloth woven in flowers, and other figures; by ſome reckoned the fineſt ſpecies of figured linen after damaſk.
The orphreys were woven in a diaper of red and gold silk, and were starred with medallions of many saints and martyrs, among whom was St. Sebastian.
The damask of that era, with its fine texture and handsome pictorial patterns, was very costly. Little of it, compared to diaper, was owned by colonists during their first century in America.
Russia-towelling was ordered for bath towels, and diaper towelling (damask linen) for nightshirts.
Joan Chicheley, 1521, left a diaper tablecloth to be divided between the high altar and Our Lady's altar. The latter could have been either an altar of Our Lady of Pity in the Trinity chapel on the north side, or that of Our Lady and St. John the Baptist in the new south aisle.
gloss: Something that absorbs and collects (retains) liquid or waste material, much like a diaper (noun sense 1).
pos: noun
tags: Canada
US
colloquial
countable
humorous
sometimes
uncountable
examples: engine diaper, meat diaper, period diaper, rubber diaper
Pendent straps in front and behind support a diaper, or its equivalent, during the period of the menses.
Sanitary Wood Wool, and Wood Wool Wadding consist of finely-comminuted pine wood, rendered antiseptic with sublimate; they are very absorbent, and are now much used for dressing wounds; and the wadding is formed into "diapers" for ladies' use in menstruation and haemorrhage, and into accouchement sheets.
The tissue is friable and must be collected in a fresh state. If retained in the vagina or on the menstrual diaper for any length of time, its features, both maco- and microscopical, are lost. The further consideration of this tissue is deferred to a later section.
NOW… a really easy way to water your indoor hanging plants.
ATTACH… the Plant Diaper to any hanging basket up to 14".
WATER… the clear plastic Plant Diaper catches and holds the water, holding the humidity around the plant.
i want a vacuum that is smart enough to try to go back to its charging station before dying. Is more autonomous ... i do not have to tell it what to do with scheduling necessarily, it cleans as it sees necessary. Hopefully, it can empty its own diaper.
Andrew 3000 (John Mulaney): Still, it might be nice to see the old gang.
Nick Birch (Nick Kroll): It might also be nice if you changed my cum diaper. And don't be stingy with the Nicky powder.
Greta felt naked in her nightgown. She was also wearing what she called a blood diaper, having run out of tampons. Nevertheless, she fox-walked across the room and sat in the armchair next to the desk.
gloss: A piece of clothing that resembles the shape of a diaper (noun sense 1) but lacks the absorbency.
pos: noun
tags: Canada
US
colloquial
countable
derogatory
humorous
possibly
uncountable
examples: Gandhi was the holiest man in the world and ONLY holy men know how to fight in this world. Gandhi only needs a little diaper and no shoes. He does not need very much food. He doesn't ask for any of the riches of the whole world.
I suppose the average American or European, if asked about Mahatma Gandhi, would summarize his knowledge as follows: Gandhi is a thin, brown toothless Indian, dressed in a diaper, who lives on goat's milk and vegetables, fasts frequently, and has been twisting the British lion's tail for a quarter of a century inside and outside of jail.
"Not me," he said. "I don't wanna go around singin' and dancin' with lipstick on my face and wearin' a diaper."
"It's not a diaper — it's a loincloth."
"Call it what you want, it's a diaper."
Ten minutes later I was standing beside the stage, barefoot and half-naked in a sumo diaper. The audience of six hundred was bundled up against the 40-degree weather. The bigger guys had layers of protective fat—I started shivering immediately.
No, I'm wearing an armored "diaper" because it has become a requirement for many Marines in theater. When I asked Lt. Col. Kevin Trimble, commander of 1st Battalion, 8th Marines, out of Camp Lejeune, N.C., about the new gear fielded to protect Marines' groins from blast injuries, he issued the armor to photographer James Lee and I, too.
gloss: A repeating geometrical or (often stylised) floral pattern, usually of small diamonds evenly spaced, that decorates a flat surface, sometimes in bas-relief; diaperwork.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: The troilled piece, that woven like a courſe gauze, and the lining in a diaper pattern, preſent ſamples which prove that the art of weaving was far advanced at that period.
[…] a mode of treatment which is also—and perhaps in a much greater degree—frequent in early painting, where a flat ground of gold or bright colour, broken and enriched with stamped or painted diaper, outlines and relieves the subject.
John's attack upon geometry began with an interest in his brother's box of bricks and in a diaper wallpaper.
Diaper stenciling can be a combination of border and spot stenciling. Regularly spaced chalk lines are laid out on a floor in a simple diamond or square diaper pattern. The transverse chalk lines are stenciled with narrow bands of design or painted as solid stripes and become part of an overall pattern.
The whole western front of that period (now an internal wall) was faced in large bricks, and the pointing done to receive painted diaper decoration, much of which still survives. It is difficult to date this build. Painted diaper work is not common before 1500, and so the wing may have been the work of Abbot Reeve or of Sir William Cordell after he acquired the Hall in 1554.
gloss: A repeating geometrical or floral pattern, used to cover the surface of a shield and forming the ground for any charges.
pos: noun
tags: countable
historical
uncountable
examples: Near-synonym: fur
Note, that you may haue diaper on any two, three, or more of theſe, or any other their like, in one Bordure, and that not onely Bordures, but aſso Fields of coat-armours are found diapered. […] And albeit things hauing life and ſenſe, or their parts, may bee borne diapered; yet Plants, Fruits, Leaves, Flowers, and other Vegetables, are (in the opinion of ſome Armoriſts) judged to be more fit for ſuch kinde of bearing. This kinde of bearing of diaper in coat-armour, is ſometimes ſeene in Coates of France, and Belgia, but very rare or neuer in England.
Yes doubtleſſe, and more ſtrictly: only they differ in ſome ſmall particulars; as ſome uſe ſtaines as much as colours, ſome charge their Scotcheons after a ſtrange maner with diaper as the french: ſome uſe round Scotcheons as the Italian, and ſuch like: otherwiſe tis all one, as you may ſee by the Armes of every kingdom.
Diapering is ſaid, when the Field is ſhadowed with Flowerſhings, and various Turnings, by Purfels of Gold, or Silver, or other Colours, after the Form of Flowers or Leaves, as the Weaver's Diaper-Napery: The Germans practiſe it moſt in their illuminate Arms, but rarely the Britains, ſuch Diaperings are to be found in 'Armories.
In the figure here exhibited the diaper field on the ſhield and furcoat ſeems to indicate that the croſs is in this inſance a badge, and not an armorial bearing; for heralds are agreed, that theſe diapered fields are the mere fancy of the painter, and not regular paternal bearings.
Besides the honourable ordinaries and the diminutions already mentioned, there are other heraldie figures, called sub-ordinaries, which, by reason of their ancient use in arms, are of worthy bearing; namely, the gyron, quarter, canton, fret, pile, orle, inescutcheon, tressure, annulet, flanches, billet, lozenge, guttes, fusil, rustre, mascle, papil-lone, and diaper.
Diaper may be executed in any tincture that is in keeping with heraldic rule, but it does not affect in any degree the heraldic tinctures of the composition. When the surface of shield is of large unbroken extent, or when there is but one charge upon it, it is peculiarly desirable to Diaper the field.
It consists of an heraldic diaper within a "tapestry" border below, where the Thorpe arms of a fess between six and fleur-de-lys alternate with another coat on lozenges.
This is a large and finely executed shield, the red with a good diaper, but the fess has been repaired by a piece of white glass.
gloss: A towel, napkin or tablecloth made from the diaper fabric (noun sense 2).
pos: noun
tags: countable
obsolete
uncountable
examples: Let one attend him with a silver basin, […] / Another bear the ewer, the third a diaper.
3 Pˢ Sheeting ditto.
1 Pˢ Cambrick.
2 Pˢ Table Diaper.
64 Pˢ Buckrams.
An abbot lies here in a stone coffin, which about fifty years since was opened by some persons (as was thought, only for his crozier and ring). The body was there entire, and the diaper he was wrapt in perfectly fresh, an incident that seems surprising.
And we take pleasure in particularizing many other specimens of elegance and usefulness, such as Stockings, Diapers, Blankets, Coverlids, and Carpeting.
[…] lead-colored knitting cotton, cotton table diapers, printed and plain grass cloths, wicking and cotton laps, fine linen thread, […]
Just received from New York, a full assortment of genuine Irish linens from the best manfacturers. 7-4 and 84 German table-linen diapers.
Among his general assortment are the following articles:
Blue, Black and Brown Cloths.
Superior black Satin Vestings, fig­ured and plain.
10-4 Table Diapers.
10-4 Irish Sheeting.
gloss: To put diapers on someone.
pos: verb
examples: Diapering a baby is something you have to learn fast.
It is pretty hard to make a mistake when diapering a baby. About the only way a person can go wrong is to put the diaper on backward, a condition that neither the diaperer nor the diaperee is likely to notice.
I diaper myself or she helps Diaper me and sometimes I get to wet them, she knows I like that.
gloss: To draw flowers or figures, as upon cloth.
pos: verb
examples: If you diaper upon folds, let your work be broken.
Synonyms: diap
diapee
diapy
diapie
didee
didie
diddy
didy
dipe
hippins
napkin
nappy
pamper
Pampers
pampers
dip
gamer pants
gaming pants
omutsu
padding
pamp
pampie
pamps
Related words: plastic pants
training pants
more at Thesaurus:diaper
Derived words: all-in-one diaper
all-in-two diaper
bediaper
birth-to-potty diaper
blue diaper syndrome
chin diaper
cloth diaper
contour diaper
daddy diaper party
diaper area
diaper-baby
diaper baby
diaper bag
diaper bank
diaper-brain
diaper brain
diaper briefs
diaper bucket
diaper bush
diaperbutt
diaper cake
diaper changer
diaper check
diaper corset
diaper cover
diaper cream
diaper creature
diaper deck
diaper derby
Diaper Don
diaper doubler
diaperee
diaperer
diaper fastener
diaper flat
diaperful
diaperfur
diaperhead
diaperhood
diaper-hump
diaper insert
diaperish
diaperism
diaperless
diaper library
diaperlike
diaper liner
diaper lover
diaper maid
diaper organizer
diaper pail
diaper pants
diaper party
diaper pin
diaper pod
diaper position
diaper rash
diaper service
diaper shirt
diaper slave
diaper-slave
diaperslut
diaper sniffer
diaper sniper
diaper sprayer
diaper stacker
diaper stuffing
diaper table
diaper warmer
diaper-whore
diaper whore
diaperwork
diaper wrap
diapie
disposable diaper
face diaper
fitted diaper
flat diaper
hybrid diaper
Israeli Diaper Forces
living diaper
meat diaper
mouth diaper
night diaper
nighttime diaper
oil diaper
one-size diaper
OS diaper
overnight diaper
paper diaper
pocket diaper
pool diaper
real diaper
red-diaper
red diaper baby
red-diaper baby
rediaper
Russian diaper
shaped diaper
sleep diaper
snap-in-one diaper
spreader diaper
stuffable diaper
swim diaper
swimming diaper
terry diaper
undiaper
washable diaper
water diaper
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