Definitions
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. A bath composed of water, in contradistinction to a vapor-bath.
- n. In chem., a vessel containing water which is heated to a certain temperature, over which chemical preparations or solutions are placed in suitable vessels to be digested, evaporated, or dried at the given temperature.
- n. Same as bain-marie.
Wiktionary
- n. A piece of laboratory equipment consisting of a heated vessel containing water, in which is suspended a flask etc that is to be subject to careful heating
GNU Webster's 1913
- A device for regulating the temperature of anything subjected to heat, by surrounding the vessel containing it with another vessel containing water which can be kept at a desired temperature; also, a vessel designed for this purpose.
Examples
“A water bath required hot stones, and many had been needed for the sweatbaths.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘water bath’.
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water phrases/words
how water is used
above water, across, over, on ..., all on a water, attend, watch (a ..., bear water, to, be on the water, to, bran and water, brandy-and-water, bread and water, burning water, by water, †cast, look, look... and 906 more...
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ENVI - Collocations TUVWXYZ
An extract from the "Zold Tolmacs" project, a HU-EN environmental dictionary compiled by Robert Gulyas in 2000.
T rolls, table sugar, table wine, tabular block, tabular ice, tackle habitat de..., tackle hunger, tackle problems, tackle the crisis, tackle the escala..., tackle the waste ..., tagged image file... and 3050 more...
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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 117 more...
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COLL - killer bug OR bug killer
Reversable noun+noun collocations (album cover - cover album). Some are perfect matches, for others you have to use your imagination. They have one thing in common: reversed, they are just as valid...
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