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nozzle

[noz-uhl]

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noun

a projecting spout, terminal discharging pipe, or the like, as of a hose or bellows.

Slang. the nose.

the spout of a teapot.

the socket of a candlestick.

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Origin:
1600–10; earlier nosle; see nose, -le

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nozzle (ˈnɒz^əl)

—n
1.	a projecting pipe or spout from which fluid is discharged
2.	Also called: propelling nozzle a pipe or duct, esp in a jet engine or rocket, that directs the effluent and accelerates or diffuses the flow to generate thrust
3.	a socket, such as the part of a candlestick that holds the candle

[C17 nosle, nosel, diminutive of nose]

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nozzle

mid-15c., noselle "socket on a candlestick," dim. of nose (see nose). Meaning "small spout" first recorded 1683.

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"The male sense of space must differ from that of the female, who has such interesting, active, and significant inner space. The space that interests men is outer. The fly ball high against the sky, the long pass spiraling overhead, the jet fighter like a scarcely visible pinpoint nozzle laying down its vapor trail at 40,000 feet, the gazelle haunch flickering just beyond arrow-reach, the uncountable stars sprinkled on their great black wheel, the horizon, the mountaintop, the quasar—these bring portents with them and awaken a sense of relation with the invisible, with the empty. The ideal male body is taut with lines of potential force, a diagram extending outward; the ideal female body curves around centers of repose."

-John Updike

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