thermos
- a vacuum bottle or similar container lined with an insulating material, such as polystyrene, to keep liquids hot or cold.
Origin of thermos
Examples from the Web for thermos
Contemporary Examples of thermos
Even the humble espresso machine got bad press, despite being the size of a thermos cup and brought as a joke.
Back at the cabin we sit together on a log near the porch and drink bourbon and ice water out of the Thermos cap.
She once hit him over the head with a thermos in the back of a car because he was acting up so badly on a road trip.
She does not drink water, only red wine from Domaine Tempier, Champagne, and a thermos of tisane before bed.
Historical Examples of thermos
In their places, suddenly, there were the thermos and the binoculars.
The Hohokam DigTheodore Pratt
The day of that blessed comfort of the trail, the thermos flask, was not yet.
Ten Thousand Miles with a Dog SledHudson Stuck
So she gets out the sandwiches and the thermos bottle and we take it that way.
Torchy and VeeSewell Ford
They filled the thermos bottle that had so puzzled Tom, and then sallied forth.
Nan Sherwood at Pine CampAnnie Roe Carr
They had a thermos bottle of cold tea which they referred to as “rum.”
The CricketMarjorie Cooke
Thermos
Thermos flask
- trademark a type of stoppered vacuum flask used to preserve the temperature of its contentsSee also Dewar flask
Word Origin and History for thermos
Thermos
trademark registered in Britain 1907, invented by Sir James Dewar (patented 1904 but not named then), from Greek thermos "hot" (see thermal). Dewar built the first one in 1892, but it was first manufactured commercially in Germany in 1904, when two glass blowers formed Thermos GmbH. Supposedly the company sponsored a contest to name the thing, and a Munich resident won with a submission of Thermos.