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beaker
[ bee-ker ]
noun
- a large drinking cup or glass with a wide mouth.
- contents of a beaker:
consuming a beaker of beer at one gulp.
- a flat-bottomed cylindrical container, usually with a pouring lip, especially one used in a laboratory.
adjective
- (initial capital letter) of or relating to the Beaker folk.
beaker
/ ˈbiːkə /
noun
- a cup usually having a wide mouth
a plastic beaker
- a cylindrical flat-bottomed container used in laboratories, usually made of glass and having a pouring lip
- the amount a beaker holds
beaker
/ bē′kər /
- A wide, cylindrical glass container with a pouring lip, used especially in laboratories.
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Word History and Origins
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Word History and Origins
Origin of beaker1
C14: from Old Norse bikarr ; related to Old High German behhāri , Middle Dutch bēker beaker, Greek bikos earthenware jug
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Example Sentences
As if abstractedly, he now took up the beaker, pledged madame with his glance, and drank.
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But—my cigar has reached its last dying speech, and there is but a drop left in the beaker.
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The king to the brim filled a beaker with wine: “I beg of thee drink to me, dear sister mine!”
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The string was then fastened around the beaker as shown, and the whole suspended from a shelf.
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The boy took the beaker, but being openly on bad terms with the elves, argued no good to himself from such an offering.
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