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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 yvlog Forms
- ٳl adjective
yvlog History and Origins
Origin of bath1
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yvlog History and Origins
Origin of bath1
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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
Mental health charities Mind and Rethink recommend trying to do something relaxing before going to sleep such as breathing exercises, reading a book or having a bath, rather than trying to force yourself to sleep.
Cacao ceremonies are showing up at yoga studios, meditation centers and sound baths.
The group also will host free sound bath and breathwork sessions this Saturday.
He has even started taking ice baths at home to aid his preparation.
Earlier this year, Sir Keir was criticised for saying "too many people in Whitehall are comfortable in the tepid bath of managed decline".
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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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