flask

[ flask, flahsk ]

/ flæsk, flɑsk /

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noun

a bottle, usually of glass, having a rounded body and a narrow neck, used especially in laboratory experimentation.

a flat metal or glass bottle for carrying in the pocket: a flask of brandy.

an iron container for shipping mercury, holding a standard commercial unit of 76 pounds (34 kilograms).

Metallurgy. a container into which sand is rammed around a pattern to form a mold.

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Origin of flask

First recorded in 1375–1425; late Middle English: “cask, keg,” from Anglo-French, Old French flaske, Late Latin flasca, earlier flascō, of uncertain origin; compare Old English flasce, flaxe, Old High German flasca (German flasche ); cf. flagon

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flask²

[ flask, flahsk ]

/ flæsk, flɑsk /

noun Ordnance.

the armored plates making up the sides of a gun-carriage trail.

Obsolete. the bed of a gun carriage.

Origin of flask

1570–80; <dialectal French flasque cheek of a gun carriage <Late Latin flascaflask¹

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How to use flask in a sentence

Just because you have a bug that produces a gram per liter in a flask doesn’t mean you are ready to be commercial.
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Then, the researchers placed the horde of variants inside a flask that also contained toxic aldehydes to see which yeasts would survive.
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With a sympathetic look Kierk grabs up his organoid’s flask.
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Obviously that started with the temperature control mugs and flasks, but that IP lends itself to so many other application.
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Every so often, researchers moved a tiny bit of the mix into fresh flasks with more plastic and liquid.
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The company recently partnered with Oakley to create a one-of-a-kind single malt Scotch flask.
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Then, from a pocket inside his camouflage top, he pulled a hidden stainless steel flask.
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Madison, who sat at the front of the room hiding his flask, was just the beginning.
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That date is etched onto a flask he gave me to store last minute, to be given back in the states once we were home.
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This convivial mask he wears, along with his omnipresent flask, is obscuring a deep hurt stemming from his father.
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And more than one broken flask on its way to the rubbish heap was carefully carried up the hill to the hidden family.
The Box-Car Children|Gertrude Chandler Warner
Rashid, the attendant, knew all Kazmah's clients, and with the box or flask he gave them a quantity of the required drug.
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Ward picked up a flask of corn whiskey and slipped it into his hip pocket.
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One of the women raised Mysie up, gave her a drink from a flask containing cold tea, and sat her aside to rest a short time.
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She caught up a flask of vinegar, and tried to restore the old priest to consciousness.
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British Dictionary definitions for flask

flask

/ (flɑːsk) /

noun

a bottle with a narrow neck, esp used in a laboratory or for wine, oil, etc

Also called: hip flask a small flattened container of glass or metal designed to be carried in a pocket, esp for liquor

See powder flask

a container packed with sand to form a mould in a foundry

See vacuum flask

Also called: cask, coffin engineering a container used for transporting irradiated nuclear fuel

Word Origin for flask

C14: from Old French flasque, flaske, from Medieval Latin flasca, flasco, perhaps of Germanic origin; compare Old English flasce, flaxe

Collins English Dictionary - Complete & Unabridged 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

Scientific definitions for flask

flask

[ flăsk ]

A rounded container with a long neck, used in laboratories.

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