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Definitions

American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

  1. n. A vacuum bottle used to keep beverages hot or cold.

Wiktionary

  1. n. a vacuum flask or bottle which can keep liquids at a desired temperature.

WordNet 3.0

  1. n. vacuum flask that preserves temperature of hot or cold drinks

Etymologies

  1. From Thermos, a trademarked name, from Ancient Greek θερμός (thermos, "warm") (Wiktionary)
  2. Originally a trademark. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)

Examples

  • “The lid of the thermos is an isolated seal, the normal jar comes with a screwtop.”

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  • “For a minimalist this guy seems to really like having every color tank top available, even coffee. but maybe that is an actual coffee tank, aka thermos? not to mention his veritible calvelcade of neckways tank, V, crew. also, I like the way he qualifies his wallet as a minimalist wallet. is a wallet really such a big extravagance?”

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  • “If you are working through lunch, Pimm's in your thermos is a guerrilla tactic for sneaking summer into the office - or homemade lemonade for the responsible.”

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  • “In 1898 the Scottish scientist James Dewar (1842-1923), also remembered for his invention of the vacuum flask known as the thermos with its valuable heat-preserving properties, beat him in the race to liquefy hydrogen.”

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  • “My thermos is a red Donald Duck I've had for years.”

    Guernica Magazine

  • “A gas canister and a kettle so you can make a hot brew, plus a thermos will be your best friends up there.”

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  • “The thermos is a brand new one I won in a random drawing at the last "let's all be friends and work together in an annoyingly close way" workshop we had at the library.”

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  • “I guess people will do anything for a free cocktail or a free Y-3 thermos which is what they were giving out as thank you gifts.”

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  • “Avail yourself of the opportunity to repeatedly touch anything "clickable," such as thermos lids or elevator buttons.”

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  • “On his desk he kept a thermos of hot espresso that he brought fresh from home daily.”

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  1. vacuum flask
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  1. half-gallon
  2. carafe
  3. percolator
  4. half-empty
  1. half-liter
  2. half-emptied
  3. wide-mouthed
  4. stoneware
  1. straw-covered
  2. coffee-pot
  3. two-quart
  4. wristwatch
  1. overfull
  2. Erlenmeyer
  3. five-gallon
  4. pannikin
  1. hot-water
  2. countertop
  3. ontainer
  4. wicker

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  1. epidermis

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  1. product placement
  1. Genericized trademark

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  • plethora It's the same deduction of heat no matter where the soup landed, which is tricky, particularly on a turn. Dec 8, 2008

  • reesetee Not if it didn't take into account the turn before the gate and the fact that Torres' feet touched the white tape. Dec 7, 2008

  • bilby Do you think the soup's still warm? Dec 6, 2008

  • chained_bear What? No! Dec 5, 2008

  • mollusque Hey c_b, did you know that Dara Torres has a thermos that's 41 years old? Dec 5, 2008

  • chained_bear Hey, thanks for posting. I didn't know about thermos. I'll have to add that to my list. Dec 5, 2008

  • dontcry *singing* "I'm going to buy a Thermos for you... No ordinary Thermos for you..." *sits in tub and squirts water into the air with hands* Dec 5, 2008

  • sionnach yes; according to Abraxis -come back all is forgiven- Zugzwang, the word is antonomasia (see his comment on c_b's list) Dec 5, 2008

  • sarra Metafilter wondered too: Question on generic terminology

    Wikipedia has an article on the genericized trademark

    And the word might be antonomasia. Dec 5, 2008

  • chained_bear I was updating my list and in the process, did that three times. Apparently I have no short-term memory whatsoever.

    Hey! I should add thermos to my list! Dec 5, 2008

  • reesetee I'm jealous of c_b's list. I think of additions darn near every day, then forget them almost immediately before I have a chance to go there. Dec 5, 2008

  • chained_bear Hot damn. I never knew that about thermos. Thanks! Dec 5, 2008

  • bilby Chained_bear has a Trade Names list. Plenty of comments there but not much about the phenomenon itself. Dec 5, 2008

  • frindley Indeed it is. It belongs to the same rhetorical class as kleenex and bandaid and esky but it's too early in the morning for me to recall what that's called. Dec 5, 2008

  • reesetee Yes, it's a brand name, but I believe it's used by some as a generic term for an insulated vacuum flask.

    Also, as I'm sure you know, it was long ago a sanctuary for the Aetolian League. Dec 4, 2008

  • bilby Was/is this a brand name rather than a generic name? Dec 4, 2008

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