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nip Meaning, Definition, Pronunciation, Grammar & Synonyms❤️

0 to go somewhere quickly or be somewhere for only a short time:
- Can you nip out/round/down to the shop for me?
- Shall we nip in to the café for a bite to eat?
1 to press something quickly and quite hard between two objects, especially sharp objects such as teeth or nails:
- Josie's hamster nipped me.
2 If there is a nip in the air, the air outside is quite cold:
- You can tell winter's on its way - there's a real nip in the air in the mornings.
3 an occasion when something nips a person or thing:
- The dog gave me a nip when we were playing.
4 a small amount of strong alcoholic drink:
- a nip of gin/brandy
5 an offensive word for a Japanese person
6 to press something hard between two often sharp objects, such as teeth or the nails on fingers:
- [ I/T ] The puppy kept nipping (at) her ankles.

This is perhaps not surprising since, though the flux through the nip is different, the film-splitting behaviour (equation 1.1) is the same.
Two large floes were grinding and the ship was nipped twice and lifted several feet.
He imposed both ingoing film thicknesses in terms of the total flux through the nip and an inlet film thickness ratio.
By exploiting the thin-layer limit suggested by the geometry of the nip, the problem is reduced to a nonlinear convection-diffusion equation with one free boundary.
The distribution of pressure, velocity and felt porosity in the nip have therefore traditionally been matters of great debate.
Guided by the above literature, we propose an ensemble-averaged multiphase model which will be applied to the flow in a roll press nip.
The guide rolls collapse the film from a tubular shape and the nip rolls seal the top edge of the bubble.
Fortunately the air was calm; a nip in this heavy ice might have been fatal.