Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A projecting part with an opening, as at the end of a hose, for regulating and directing a flow of fluid.
- noun Slang The human nose.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun See
nozle . - An obsolete form of
nuzzle .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun The nose; the snout; hence, the projecting vent of anything.
- noun A short tube, usually tapering, forming the vent of a hose or pipe.
- noun A short outlet, or inlet, pipe projecting from the end or side of a hollow vessel, as a steam-engine cylinder or a steam boiler.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A short
tube , usuallytapering ,forming thevent of ahose orpipe . - noun A short
outlet orinlet pipeprojecting from the end or side of ahollow vessel , as asteam -enginecylinder or a steamboiler .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a projecting spout from which a fluid is discharged
- noun informal terms for the nose
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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Then after making sure the nozzle is directed towards your favorite shirt, depress the nozzle and hold down while you close your eyes.
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Then after making sure the nozzle is directed towards your favorite shirt, depress the nozzle and hold down while you close your eyes.
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Oh, and that turd nozzle is fucking joking with that painting, right?
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March 18th, 2010 at 2: 46 pm tombaker says: ol’ d-nozzle is still bangin’ away down here??? why ain’t he at work?
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COBURN: You take a high pressure nozzle, which is included with our system and you use just plain water, hose it from top to bottom.
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The diameters of the inlet and outlet nozzles are so nicely adjusted that, so long as both are at the same temperature, the outlet nozzle, which is open to the atmosphere, will pass all the air that the inlet nozzle can deliver without disturbing the pressure in the cistern,
Scientific American Supplement, No. 530, February 27, 1886 Various
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Some forms of filter candle are made with the open end contracted into a delivery nozzle, which is glazed.
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The nozzle should be a straight, tapered tube of some kind -- the nose of a large oil can will serve the purpose.
Things To Make Archibald Williams
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It is in the form of an air-fan, with a pointed nozzle, which is put just within the coop at night, when the birds are all within.
Scientific American Supplement, No. 460, October 25, 1884 Various
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Last Wednesday, Klayman held a press conference outside the cartel's quarters where he waved a gas pump nozzle at OPEC calling the nozzle a "smoking gun" that ties OPEC to the current financial disaster in the US Their artificial run-up in oil prices earlier this year set the stage for the economic problems we're now having, he said.
The Reality Check 2009
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