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bath
1[ bath, bahth ]
noun
- a washing or immersion of something, especially the body, in water, steam, etc., as for cleansing or medical treatment:
I take a bath every day. Give the dog a bath.
- a quantity of water or other liquid used for this purpose:
running a bath.
- a container for water or other cleansing liquid, as a bathtub.
- a room equipped for bathing; bathroom:
The house has two baths.
- a building containing rooms or apartments with equipment for bathing; bathhouse.
- Often baths. one of the elaborate bathing establishments of the ancients:
the baths of Caracalla.
- Usually baths. a town or resort visited for medical treatment by bathing or the like; spa.
- a preparation, as an acid solution, in which something is immersed.
- the container for such a preparation.
- a device for controlling the temperature of something by the use of a surrounding medium, as sand, water, oil, etc.
- Metallurgy.
- the depressed hearth of a steelmaking furnace.
- the molten metal being made into steel in a steelmaking furnace.
- the state of being covered by a liquid, as perspiration:
in a bath of sweat.
verb (used with or without object)
- to wash or soak in a bath.
bath
2[ bath ]
noun
- a Hebrew unit of liquid measure, equal to a quantity varying between 10 and 11 U.S. gallons (38 and 42 liters).
Bath
3[ bath, bahth ]
noun
- a city in Avon, in SW England: mineral springs.
- a seaport in SW Maine.
Ba'th
1/ ɑːθ /
noun
- an Arab Socialist party, esp in Iraq and Syria, founded by Michel Aflaq in 1941. It attempts to combine Marxism with pan-Islamic nationalism
Bath
2/ ɑːθ /
noun
- a city in SW England, in Bath and North East Somerset unitary authority, Somerset, on the River Avon: famous for its hot springs; a fashionable spa in the 18th century; Roman remains, notably the baths; university (1966). Pop: 90 144 (2001) Latin nameAquae Sulisˈækwiːˈsuːlɪs
bath
3/ ɑːθ /
noun
- a large container, esp one made of enamelled iron or plastic, used for washing or medically treating the body balneal
- the act or an instance of washing in such a container
- the amount of liquid contained in a bath
- run a bathto turn on the taps to fill a bath with water for bathing oneself
- usually plural a place that provides baths or a swimming pool for public use
- a vessel in which something is immersed to maintain it at a constant temperature, to process it photographically, electrolytically, etc, or to lubricate it
- the liquid used in such a vessel
verb
- to wash in a bath
bath
4/ æθ /
noun
- an ancient Hebrew unit of liquid measure equal to about 8.3 Imperial gallons or 10 US gallons
Derived Forms
- ˈ′t, noun
- ˈ′t, adjective
- ˈ′tst, noun
Other Word Forms
- ٳl adjective
Word History and Origins
Origin of bath1
Origin of bath2
Word History and Origins
Origin of bath1
Origin of bath2
Origin of bath3
Idioms and Phrases
- take a bath, Informal. to suffer a large financial loss:
Many investors are taking a bath on their bond investments.
More idioms and phrases containing bath
see take a bath ; throw out the baby with the bath water .Example Sentences
He says he has even found bottles of urine, which "tend to be under baths or under shower trays".
His agenda for a perfect day in L.A. includes a boat party, an ice bath and the most glorious spicy shrimp in town.
Instead, it's a warm bath of permission to ignore the horrors being unleashed by an administration boosted by the people who funded this app, and all offered in Jesus' name, amen.
When the procession arrives at the beach, priests give a ritual bath in the sea to the idols.
A mother who drowned her two young sons in the bath in what the judge described as "the stuff of nightmares" has been sentenced to life imprisonment.
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Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023
Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
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