vaippa — meaning in English
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English meaning
- diaper noun An absorbent garment worn around a baby's bottom to catch urine and feces.
- envelope noun A flat paper or cardboard cover used to hold and mail letters or documents.
- jacket noun A garment for the upper body, worn over a shirt, usually reaching the waist or thigh.
- mantle verb To cover, cloak, or conceal something.
- shroud noun A cloth used to wrap a dead body for burial.
Senses
vaippa is used for these senses in English:
- diaper (North America, Philippines, India) 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, out of convenience, or under extreme working conditions without access to a toilet; a nappy.
- envelope (geometry) A mathematical curve, surface, or higher-dimensional object that is the tangent to a given family of lines, curves, surfaces, or higher-dimensional objects.
- jacket A protective or insulating cover for an object (e.g. a book, hot water tank, bullet.)
- lateral surface (geometry) All of the sides of the object, excluding its base and top (when they exist).
- mantle (figuratively) Anything that covers or conceals something else; a cloak. [from 9th c.]
- pallium (malacology) The mantle of a mollusc. [from 19th c.]
- shroud (astronautics) A streamlined protective covering used to protect the payload during a rocket-powered launch.
diaper — full definition
- noun An absorbent garment worn around a baby's bottom to catch urine and feces.
- noun A woven fabric with a small, repeating diamond pattern.
- verb To put a diaper on someone.
envelope — full definition
- noun A flat paper or cardboard cover used to hold and mail letters or documents.
- noun The outer limits within which something, especially an aircraft or system, can safely operate.
- verb To wrap something up completely, enclosing it.