Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. A wide cylindrical glass vessel with a pouring lip, used as a laboratory container and mixing jar.
- n. A large drinking cup with a wide mouth.
- n. The quantity that a beaker holds.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. A large drinking-vessel with a wide mouth.
- n. A glass vessel used by chemists, usually for making solutions. It is made of thin glass to withstand heating, and has a flat bottom and perpendicular sides, with a lip for pouring, and varies in capacity from 1 to 30 fluidounces.
Wiktionary
- n. A flat-bottomed vessel, with a lip, used as a laboratory container.
- n. A drinking vessel without a handle, sometimes for the use of children.
- n. A mug.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. A large drinking cup, with a wide mouth, supported on a foot or standard.
- n. An open-mouthed, thin glass vessel, having a projecting lip for pouring; -- used for holding solutions requiring heat.
WordNet 3.0
- n. a flatbottomed jar made of glass or plastic; used for chemistry
- n. a cup (usually without a handle)
Etymologies
- Middle English biker and Middle Dutch bēker, drinking vessel, both from Medieval Latin bicārius, bicārium; see pitcher2.
Examples
“What's going on in the beaker is actually quite a complex set of chemical reactions.”
“However, the rate of increase may finally be beginning to ease, as the beaker is almost full.”
“A tempered glass or stainless steel beaker is preheated with boiling water, coarse-ground coffee is added, then hot water.”
“If an empty beaker is lowered part way into the liquid, the liquid flows upward, over the edge and down into the beaker.”
“Indeed, their population is increasing now, but the beaker is almost full and their reproductive rate is starting to drop.”
“They are plunged in a solution of ammonium chloride A, contained in a glass phial or beaker, which is closed to suppress evaporation.”
“= -- This is called the beaker-shaped puff-ball because the base of the plant, after the spores have all been scattered, resembles to some extent a beaker, or a broad cup with a stout, stem-like base.”
Studies of American Fungi. Mushrooms, Edible, Poisonous, etc.
“The NIH stimulus package provides $7.4 billion for so-called beaker-ready projects - grants already peer reviewed and agency approved but not funded due to years of hold-the-line agency budgets.”
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“Big and small, the disappointments, phobias, and guilt stuff fills our "beaker" until there is almost no room, and certainly little clarity.”
“The closest science-y thing I have in my kitchen right now is the UGN measuring cup from Ikea - it's kind of beaker-ish...”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘beaker’.
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In The Laboratory
List of laboratory glassware and apparatuses, machines, tools, etc., starting with burette.
Please feel free to help me populate this list, all you mad scientist Wordniks.burette, reagent bottle, Erlenmeyer flask, pipette, centrifuge, ultracentrifuge, beaker, spot plate, crucible, flask, mortar, pestle and 113 more...
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Gesundheit
Words that sound like sneezes
zucchini, zoology, wysiwyg, woodchuck, withhold, wichita, vacuum, twelfth, syzygy, synchronous, swatch, supersede and 120 more...
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A Garnish of Pewter
A list of pewter items and wares gleaned from the literature, or found listed for sale in antique catalogs - from spoons to stills and chamber pots to church cups. A synonym for the larger, heavier...
teapot, porringer, flagon, wine funnel, pepper shaker, broth bowl, basin, candlesticks, tankard, beaker, measure, chalice and 154 more...
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The Ginger List
Know thy enemy. (Thy enemy are the Ginger.)
Catalog all known Gingerborns here!ron weasley, carrot top, chucky finster, nicole kidman, molly ringwald, wilma flintstone, danny bonaduce, ale, tina louise as gi..., little orphan annie, rusty staub, pauline hanson and 31 more...
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measure for measure
Things that can be used to measure other things.
osmometer, thermometer, spectrometer, ruler, rain gauge, ph meter, spectrophotometer, odometer, tachometer, compass, brannock device, tape measure and 51 more...
sionnach Do I have to ship them to Guantanamo first, before locking them in a confined environment and applying heat? Jan 1, 2008
bilby "You want to know how two chemicals interact, do you ask them? No, they're going to lie through their lying little chemical teeth. Throw them in a beaker and apply heat."
- website, Eli Baskin, cited 30 Dec 2007. Jan 1, 2008
reesetee Sidekick to Dr. Bunsen Honeydew. (I once had a bird named after Beaker--he acted much like his namesake most of the time.) Dec 17, 2007
sonofgroucho My favourite Muppet. Jan 31, 2007