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beaker
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Word definitions for beaker in dictionaries
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
"open large-mouthed vessel," mid-14c., from Old Norse bikarr or Middle Dutch beker "goblet," probably (with Old Saxon bikeri , Old High German behhari , German Becher ) from Medieval Latin bicarium , which itself is probably a diminutive of Greek bikos ...
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Word definitions in Wikipedia
A beaker is a small ceramic or metal drinking vessel shaped to be held in the hands. Archaeologists identify several different types including the butt beaker , the claw beaker and the rough-cast beaker , however when used alone the term usually refers ...
Usage examples of beaker.
With a forked stick he took the beaker from the ashes and placed it in the annealing oven.
I therefore offered to buy the beaker he was making and I put down a piece of money, and the said Zorzi, called the Ballarin, a liar, a thief and an assassin, took the said piece of money, and set the said beaker within the annealing oven of the said furnace, wherein I saw many other pieces of fine workmanship, and he said that I should have the said beaker when it was annealed.
The Major was very slightly drunk and evidently intent on becoming more drunk for he snatched a whole jug of arrack from a servant, then scooped up two beakers from a table.
The droplets that remain at the bottom of the beaker are chloride of azode of nitrochloride.
Daniel took most of these in good humor, but Isaac, who suspected that Jack was baiting him, fumed quietly, like a beaker just tonged from a furnace.
I mixed myself a beaker, while Gussie, a glutton for punishment, stared at himself in the mirror.
I squeezed along the bench when my time came, and managed not to catch my sash on the altar rail, but my thoughts were remote as I grasped the beaker of hymnal wine for the first time and Father Francis recited the promises of heaven.
After the nitration has taken place and the nitroglycerin has formed at the top of the solution, the entire beaker should be transferred very slowly and carefully to another beaker of water.
The Tyrant gave a gasp of surprise and threw up his paws, only to find that the beaker showered him not with drink but with dead leaves.
He opened a pippet on the collection beaker and drained some of the distillate into a shot-glass-sized mug.
Mentu broke the bread and filled the beaker, while Sema stood aloof and gazed with troubled eyes at the unhappy face of the young master.
The doors were barred, the windows occluded, but by staring through the cracks in the walls I managed to catch glimpses of hospital gurneys, surgical lights, and three enormous glass beakers in which sallow, teratoid fetuses drifted like pickles in brine.
It is filtered, washed, and transferred back to the beaker, and then digested with warm ammonic sulphide.
The Armenian boy whispered up on slippered feet, bearing on a gaudy salver a tiny beaker of coffee clenched in a writhen silver zarf.
On top of the cabinet was a rack of test tubes, several beakers and a hydrometer jar.