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nozzle

[noz-uhl] / ˈnɒz əl /
NOUN
spout
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At the pumps, the mood was tense as customers watched the fuel counter tick up, sometimes pulling out the nozzle before the satisfying “ca-chunk” that indicates a full tank.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 6, 2026

"It can look down and spray a nozzle when the sensors pick a weed, while we're going around 15 miles an hour," Leguee says.

From BBC ● Jan. 19, 2026

It took me three hours to force the hose onto the pump nozzle, but I couldn’t cinch it up securely.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 24, 2025

The nozzle array can also pick up spheroids in customized patterns, which can then be repeated to create the architecture found in complex tissue.

From Science Daily ● Dec. 3, 2024

I inspected its nozzle and thought it crudely designed.

From "October Sky" by Homer Hickam

Musk said the car was equipped with 10 nozzles and "ultra high-pressure air tanks" to propel itself into the air and accelerate quickly on the ground.

From Barron's ● Oct. 16, 2026

Combined, that’s 68% more EV chargers than gasoline nozzles in the state.

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 29, 2026

In the pitch black of the mine, mud-splattered men with headlamps drill into the rock in two-man teams, using hydro drills with long, thin nozzles that shoot out pressurized water to loosen the ore.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 27, 2026

He adds that he saves on pesticide spray since the nozzles only turn on when weeds are detected, as opposed to the kind of blanket spraying he used to do.

From BBC ● Jan. 19, 2026

I got a cutting tool and put it in the special jig he had fashioned for our nozzles.

From "October Sky" by Homer Hickam


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