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A diaper is a piece of soft cloth or soft paper put between a baby’s legs and around the waist to hold wee and poo. This is the ordinary American word. In British English, and in many Taiwan English classes, the same thing is a .
A diaper尿布 is是 put between a baby's legs放在寶寶兩腿之間 and fastened around the waist、固定在腰間 to hold wee and poo用來接尿和便便的 a piece of soft cloth or soft paper一塊軟布或軟紙。 This這 is是 the ordinary American word一般常見的美式說法。 In British English在英式英語 and in many Taiwan English classes以及台灣很多英文課裡 the same thing同樣的東西 is a nappy則叫做nappy。
You can also use it as a verb: to diaper a baby means to put one on. Most families now use throw-away paper ones; cloth ones are washed and used again.
You can also也可以 use it as a verb把它當動詞用：to diaper a babyto diaper a baby means就是指 to put one on幫寶寶穿上尿布。 Most families now現在大多數家庭 use throw-away paper ones用的是拋棄式紙尿布 cloth ones布尿布 are washed and used again則是洗了重複用。
Though actually, the word did not start with babies. Long ago diaper meant a kind of cloth with a small repeating pattern, and that cloth was used for many things, including wrapping infants. In American English the baby meaning won. In specialist talk — old fabrics, church stone — diaper can still mean that repeating pattern, but almost always meet the baby sense.
Though actually不過其實 the word did not start with babies這個字一開始並不是指嬰兒。 Long ago很久以前 diaper指的是 a kind of cloth with a small repeating pattern一種帶有小小重複花紋的布 and that cloth was used for many things這種布有很多用途 including wrapping infants包括用來包嬰兒。 In American English在美式英語裡 the baby meaning won嬰兒這個意思勝出了。 In specialist talk在專業說法裡 old fabrics, church stone像是舊布料、教堂石雕 diaper can still mean that repeating patterndiaper還是可以指那種重複花紋 but learners almost always meet the baby sense但學習者幾乎都只會遇到嬰兒的意思。
組成From Middle English dyaper, from Old French diapre / dyapre, a patterned silk, from Medieval Latin diaspra / diasprum, probably from Byzantine Greek δίασπρος (díaspros): diá- (“through / across”) + áspros (“white”) — originally a white cloth with a pattern. The baby-clothes meaning came later.
原始詞典資料10 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，原文照列，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
Diapername
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A surname.
- Lord Orrery was President to-day; but both our dukes were absent. Brother Wyndham recommended [William] Diaper to the Society. I believe we shall make a contribution among ourselves, which I don't like.
- At the end of the week, when, according to appointment, he waited on Mr. Diaper, he was informed laconically that he would not suit, and became aware of the extreme folly of his conduct. The sudden thought that he had spent nearly half of his capital since that day week, aroused him to a very alarming conviction of his danger. With the pardonable anxiety produced by the fear of want, he asked Mr. Diaper to favour him with an acconnt of what Mr. Wiggins had said of him, which, as a matter of course, Mr. Diaper declined doing, merely stating that the character given was not what suited.
diapernoun/ˈdaɪ(ə).pə/
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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, by an adult who is incontinent (who wets the bed), or under extreme working conditions without access to a toilet; a nappy.
- 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.
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A container that absorbs and collects (retains) liquid or waste material, similar to a diaper (noun sense 1).
- 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.
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derogatoryA piece of clothing that resembles the shape of a diaper (noun sense 1) but lacks the absorbency.
- 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.
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historicalA textile fabric having a repeating pattern, especially of diamonds or flowers, formed by alternating directions of thread.
- Near-synonym: diamond twill
- Diaper table clothes the peece containing xx.yards xl.s
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architectureartartsA repeating geometrical or (often stylized) floral pattern, usually of small diamonds evenly spaced, that decorates a flat surface, sometimes in bas-relief; diaperwork.
- 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.
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historicalgovernmentheraldryhobbiesA repeating geometrical or floral pattern, used to cover the surface of a shield and forming the ground for any charges.
- 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.
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obsoleteA towel, napkin, or tablecloth made from the diaper fabric (noun sense 4).
- 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.
diaperverb/ˈdaɪ(ə).pə/
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To put diapers on someone.
- 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.
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To draw geometrical or floral patterns, as upon cloth.
- If you diaper upon folds, let your work be broken.
資料來源：英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary（CC BY-SA 4.0）。 原文照列，未經改寫。