Bath

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  • noun. undefined
  • noun. The act of soaking or cleansing the body, as in water or steam.
  • noun. The water used for cleansing the body.
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  • noun. A bathtub.
  • noun. A bathroom.
  • noun. A building equipped for bathing.
  • noun. A resort providing therapeutic baths; a spa.
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  • noun. A liquid in which something is dipped or soaked for processing.
  • noun. A container holding such a liquid.
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  • noun. A medium, such as oil or sand, that controls the temperature of objects placed in it.
  • noun. A container holding such a medium.
  • noun. An ancient Hebrew unit of liquid measure, equal to about 38 liters (10 US gallons).
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • To put into a bath; wash in a bath.
  • noun. A Hebrew liquid measure = 72 logs = 6 hins = cor, and corresponding to the dry measure the ephah = 72 logs = 18 cabs = 3 saths = cor.
  • noun. A washing of the body in, or an exposure of it to the action of, water or other fluid agent, for cleansing, refreshment, medical treatment, etc.: as, to take a bath; to administer a bath to a patient.
  • noun. A provision or arrangement for bathing: as, to prepare a bath; a hot or cold bath; a vapor-bath; an electric bath.
  • noun. A vessel for holding water in which to plunge, wash, or bathe the body.
  • noun. More generally, an apartment or apparatus by means of which the body, or a part of it, may be bathed in any medium differing in nature or temperature from its natural medium.
  • noun. An edifice containing apartments fitted up for bathing; a bath-house; particularly, in the plural, one of the elaborate bathing establishments of the ancients, as the Baths of Caracalla at Rome. See thermœ.
  • noun. In science and the arts, any vessel containing a liquid for treating any object by immersion.
  • noun. An arrangement or preparation for immersing anything, as the silver-bath in photography.
  • noun. In chem., an apparatus for modifying and regulating the heat in various chemical processes, by interposing a quantity of sand, water, or other substance between the fire and the vessel intended to be heated.
  • noun. In electricity, the solution in which electrochemical action takes place, as in electroplating, electrotyping, electrometallurgy, etc.
  • noun. Same as bath-flower.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • noun. A city in the west of England, resorted to for its hot springs, which has given its name to various objects.
  • noun. a preparation of calcareous earth, in the form of a brick, used for cleaning knives, polished metal, etc.
  • noun. a kind of chair on wheels, as used by invalids at Bath.
  • noun. an alloy consisting of four and a half ounces of zinc and one pound of copper.
  • noun. a folded writing paper, 8 1/2 by 14 inches.
  • noun. a species of limestone (oölite) found near Bath, used for building.
  • noun. A Hebrew measure containing the tenth of a homer, or five gallons and three pints, as a measure for liquids; and two pecks and five quarts, as a dry measure.
  • noun. The act of exposing the body, or part of the body, for purposes of cleanliness, comfort, health, etc., to water, vapor, hot air, or the like.
  • noun. Water or other liquid for bathing.
  • noun. A receptacle or place where persons may immerse or wash their bodies in water.
  • noun. A building containing an apartment or a series of apartments arranged for bathing.
  • noun. A medium, as heated sand, ashes, steam, hot air, through which heat is applied to a body.
  • noun. A solution in which plates or prints are immersed; also, the receptacle holding the solution.
  • noun. See Douche.
  • noun. a high order of British knighthood, composed of three classes, viz., knights grand cross, knights commanders, and knights companions, abbreviated thus: G. C. B., K. C. B., K. B.
  • noun. a kind of vapor bath which consists in a prolonged exposure of the body to the influence of the steam of water, followed by washings and shampooings.
  • noun. a kind of bath in which a profuse perspiration is produced by hot air, after which the body is washed and shampooed.
  • noun. a house used for the purpose of bathing; -- also a small house, near a bathing place, where a bather undresses and dresses.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • noun. An ancient Hebrew unit of liquid volume measure, equal to an ephah and to one-tenth of a homer, and approximately equal to 22 litres.
  • noun. A tub or pool which is used for bathing: bathtub.
  • noun. A room or area where bathing occurs: bathroom.
  • noun. The act of bathing.
  • noun. A substance or preparation into which something is immersed.
  • Word Usage
    "At the expiration of this time, the cotton is taken out and placed on the edges of the copper, a pint of the above ley of foda is to be added to the bath, the cotton is then to be returned into the bath» and boiled from twelve to fifteen minutes, laflly, it is to be taken out and left to drain, wrung, wafhed in a flream of water, and wrung on the pin a fecond time."
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    Rhyme
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    Gath  Kath  Plath  Wrath  fath  
    Same Context
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    bathroom  bed  bedroom  bottle  chamber  
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    verb-form
    bathed  baths