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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
diaper
noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
diaper rash
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
rash
▪ I saw one of the hardiest women I know burst into tears of self-loathing because her daughter had diaper rash.
▪ The baby never has colic, thrush, diaper rash, infant acne, or cradle cap.
▪ At least half of all infants get diaper rash at some time during their diaper careers.
▪ The Olympians are swabbing their faces with Desitin, the white goop generally used to combat diaper rash.
■ VERB
change
▪ They change diapers and mix bottles for infants crying in the middle of the night when no one else is around.
▪ He bathed them, changed their diapers, and willingly helped, then and now, with every aspect of child care.
▪ When daughter Tiffany was born, Olson became adept at changing diapers with one hand.
▪ I played with him, I carried him around the garden, I changed his diapers and bathed him in the sink.
▪ He did all the fatherly duties, he changed diapers.
▪ When anyone tried to brush her hair, give her a bath, or change her diaper, it hurt.
wear
▪ She was wearing a disposable diaper.
▪ Physically disabled students, some of whom wear diapers, are changed in a room that has no hot water.
▪ The youngest child was wearing a soiled diaper.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ A diaper design was then card-wired on to the shell using a template and a straight-edge.
▪ Many roads are littered with fast food containers, diapers, wrecked and / or stolen cars, and animals.
▪ Miss Vicki was twisted around pulling at her diaper.
▪ She was wearing a disposable diaper.
▪ The columns and arches are painted in diaper and other patterns in indian red, black and white.
▪ We are a people who have decided to deny diapers to babies with bare bottoms.
▪ We certainly can not afford to give away vouchers for medicine, for No. 2 pencils, for diapers.
▪ What seductions, what family quarrels, what diaper changes?
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Diaper

Diaper \Di"a*per\ (d[imac]"[.a]*p[~e]r), n. [OF. diaspre, diapre, diaspe, sort of figured cloth, It. diaspro jasper, diaspo figured cloth, from L. jaspis a green-colored precious stone. See Jasper.]

  1. Any textile fabric (esp. linen or cotton toweling) woven in diaper pattern. See

  2. 2. (Fine Arts) Surface decoration of any sort which consists of the constant repetition of one or more simple figures or units of design evenly spaced.

  3. A towel or napkin for wiping the hands, etc.

    Let one attend him with a silver basin, . . . Another bear the ewer, the third a diaper.
    --Shak.

  4. An infant's breechcloth.

Diaper

Diaper \Di"a*per\, v. i. To draw flowers or figures, as upon cloth. ``If you diaper on folds.''
--Peacham.

Diaper

Diaper \Di"a*per\, v. t.

  1. To ornament with figures, etc., arranged in the pattern called diaper, as cloth in weaving. ``Diapered light.''
    --H. Van Laun.

    Engarlanded and diapered With in wrought flowers.
    --Tennyson.

  2. To put a diaper on (a child).

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
diaper

mid-14c., "fabric with a repeated pattern of figures," from Old French diaspre "ornamental cloth; flowered, patterned silk cloth," perhaps via Medieval Latin diasprum from Medieval Greek diaspros "thoroughly white," or perhaps "white interspersed with other colors," from dia- (see dia-) + aspros "white."\n

\nAspros originally meant "rough," and was applied to the raised parts of coins (among other things), and thus was used in Byzantine Greek to mean "silver coin," from which the bright, shiny qualities made it an adjective for whiteness. Modern sense of "underpants for babies" is continuous since 1837, but such usage has been traced back to 1590s.

diaper

late 14c., "to put a small, repeated pattern on," from Old French diaprer, variant of diasprer, from diaspre (see diaper (n.)). Meaning "to put a diaper on" (a baby) is attested by 1951. Related: Diapered; diapering.

Wiktionary
diaper

n. 1 A textile fabric having a diamond-shaped pattern formed by alternating directions of thread. 2 A towel or napkin made from such fabric. 3 (context North America English) An absorbent garment worn by a baby, by a young child not yet toilet training, or by an older person who is incontinent; a nappy. 4 The diamond pattern associated with diaper textiles. 5 Surface decoration of any sort which consists of the constant repetition of one or more simple figures or units of design evenly spaced. vb. 1 To put diapers on someone. 2 To draw flowers or figures, as upon cloth.

WordNet
diaper
  1. n. garment consisting of a folded cloth drawn up between the legs and fastened at the waist; worn by infants to catch excrement [syn: nappy, napkin]

  2. a fabric (usually cotton or linen) with a distinctive woven pattern of small repeated figures

Wikipedia
Diaper (disambiguation)

Diaper may refer to:

  • Diaper, an absorbent garment
  • Diapering, range of decorative patterns used in a variety of works of art, such as stained glass, heraldic shields, architecture, silverwork etc.
  • "Diaper", a 1999 song by Meat Puppets from You Love Me
Diaper

A diaper (also called a nappy outside North America) is a type of underwear that allows the wearer to defecate or urinate without the use of a toilet, by absorbing or containing waste products to prevent soiling of outer clothing or the external environment. When diapers become soiled, they require changing, generally by a second person such as a parent or caregiver. Failure to change a diaper on a sufficiently regular basis can result in skin problems around the area covered by the diaper.

Diapers are made of cloth or synthetic disposable materials. Cloth diapers are composed of layers of fabric such as cotton, hemp, bamboo or microfiber and can be washed and reused multiple times. Disposable diapers contain absorbent chemicals and are thrown away after use. Plastic pants can be worn over diapers to avoid leaks, but with modern cloth diapers, this is no longer necessary.

Diapers are primarily worn by infants, and by children who are not yet potty trained or who experience bedwetting. They are also used by adults with incontinence or in certain circumstances where access to a toilet is unavailable. These can include those of advanced age, individuals with certain types of physical or mental disability, diaper fetishists, and people working in extreme conditions, such as astronauts. It is not uncommon for people to wear diapers under dry suits.

Usage examples of "diaper".

Shit, motherfucking Arnold Swatchanigga would pinch a musclebound log in his diapers he run into Piss.

Where otherwise they are not distinguishable, the Netherlandish miniatures are usually such as prefer plain burnished gold backgrounds to diapered ones, or have a plain deep blue paled towards the horizon, and lastly replace the background by a natural, or what was intended to be a natural, landscape.

A squad of Rebels found what was once a lovely home that now contained about a dozen women and twice that many children, ranging in age from runny-nosed infants in filth-encrusted diapers to boys and girls nine or ten years old.

Until a few years ago, the most extensive attempt to communicate with chimpanzees went something like this: A newborn chimp was taken into a household with a newborn baby, and both would be raised together-twin cribs, twin bassinets, twin high chairs, twin potties, twin diaper pails, twin baby powder cans.

She carefully laid Josie in the bag and stuffed some diapers and a blanket in with her.

She let Desdemona worry about the diaper rashes and whooping coughs, the earaches and nosebleeds.

But once they put these Red Diaper Doper Baby lawyers from NYU on Prozac, the spittle started appearing again.

Kewpie dolls, Cabbage Patch Kids, Raggedy Ann, and numerous other varieties, both old and new, some more than three feet tall, some smaller than a milk carton, were dressed in diapers, snowsuits, elaborate bridal dresses, checkered rompers, cowboy outfits, tennis togs, pajamas, hula skirts, kimonos, clown suits, overalls, nighties, and sailor suits.

Nicky was wearing a diaper, bright red terrycloth shorts and nothing else.

Wednesday morning, and now they got him in diapers and twenty four-hour restraint, with Thorazine cocktails twice a day.

With each trip to town, she brought home a few more items for the baby until she had a supply of little undershirts, socks, sleepsuits, and newborn outfits along with the requisite bibs, rattles, teething rings, baby powder, diapers, and assorted baby items, all of it augmented by purchases Jessy had made.

When they were on good domestic terms they stayed in their bedroom for days of squeaking springs with the door locked except for brief sallies out for Beefeater gin and Chinese take-out in little white cardboard pails with wire handles, with the Stice children wandering ghostlike through the clapboard house in sagging diapers or woolen underwear subsisting on potato chips out of econobags bigger than most of them were, the Stice kids.

Cupid in the school Valentine's Day pageant, and the sister's school had got out early one day after an asbestos scare and she'd come unexpectedly home and found the Old Man in the basement rumpus room in tiny wings and hideously distended diaper striking a pose from a rather well-known Titian oil in the Met's High Renaissance Wing, and had struggled with denial and own-perceptions-doubting for quite some time thereafter, until a hysterical episode during rehearsals for an Ice Capades Valentine's Day number brought all the feelings surging up and broke the denial, and the Ice Capades' Employee Assistance Office counselling staff helped her start to work it all through.

And when a loved one of theirs is lying in bed constantly soiling their adult diapers, pissing all over the new designer sheets, and blabbering on like the crippled souls whose care and funding they just cut from the federal budget—well, in times like these, rich or poor, pus from facial sores all starts looking the same.

And he has and will answer your Diaper Sandoe in better verse, as he confutes him in a better life.