Flask

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  • noun. A small container, such as a bottle, having a narrow neck and usually a cap, especially.
  • noun. A flat, relatively thin container for liquor.
  • noun. A container or case for carrying gunpowder or shot.
  • noun. A vial or round long-necked vessel for laboratory use.
  • noun. A frame for holding a sand mold in a foundry.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • noun. undefined
  • noun. A bottle, especially one of some peculiar form or material (see below): as, a flask for wine or oil.
  • noun. Specifically— A narrow-necked globular glass bottle: as, a Florence flask.
  • noun. A metallic or other portable dram-bottle, with flat sides: as, a pocket-flask.
  • noun. A vessel, generally of metal or horn, for containing gunpowder, carried by sportsmen, usually furnished with a measure of the charge at the top.
  • noun. An iron vessel for containing mercury, in the shape of a long bottle. A flask of mercury from California is about 75 pounds.
  • noun. A vessel used in a laboratory for sublimation, for digesting in a sand-bath, or for any similar purpose.
  • noun. A shallow frame of wood or iron used in foundries to contain the sand and patterns employed in molding and casting.
  • noun. A bed in a gun-carriage.
  • noun. A long narrow case, as for arrows; a quiver; hence, a set of arrows in a quiver.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • noun. A small bottle-shaped vessel for holding fluids.
  • noun. A narrow-necked vessel of metal or glass, used for various purposes; as of sheet metal, to carry gunpowder in; or of wrought iron, to contain quicksilver; or of glass, to heat water in, etc.
  • noun. A bed in a gun carriage.
  • noun. The wooden or iron frame which holds the sand, etc., forming the mold used in a foundry; it consists of two or more parts; viz., the cope or top; sometimes, the cheeks, or middle part; and the drag, or bottom part. When there are one or more cheeks, the flask is called a three part flask, four part flask, etc.
  • noun. a thin glass flask, flat-bottomed and cone-shaped to allow of safely shaking its contents laterally without danger of spilling; -- so called from Erlenmeyer, a German chemist who invented it.
  • noun. A glass flask, round or pear-shaped, with round or flat bottom, and usually very thin to allow of heating solutions.
  • noun. a kind of pocket dram bottle, often covered with metal or leather to protect it from breaking.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • noun. A container used to discreetly carry a small amount of a hard alcoholic beverage; a pocket flask.
  • noun. Laboratory glassware used to hold larger volumes than test tubes, normally having a narrow mouth of a standard size which widens to a flat or spherical base.
  • noun. A container for holding a casting mold, especially for sand casting molds.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • noun. bottle that has a narrow neck
  • noun. the quantity a flask will hold
  • Word Usage
    "'environment' is not just made up of the flask and media but also the * other cells in the flask* with which it must compete."
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    Ask  Basque  Pasch  Rask  ask  
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    beaker  bottle  cans  canteen  carafe  
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    calabash  canteen  carafe  carboy  caster