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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.
Word History and Origins
Word History and Origins
Origin of beaker1
Example Sentences
While triggering those reactions with copper may work fine in a glass beaker, that metal can harm living cells.
Think about all of those beakers, flasks, test tubes and more.
Tucked away in an inconspicuous corner is a typical lab bench—a table with flasks, scales, and beakers beneath a fume hood—where graduate students can practice chemistry in much the same way their grandparents’ generation did.
He knows this firsthand, as he will occasionally provoke defensive responses with his own fingers instead of the dead mice or membrane-covered beakers he and his students use to collect venom.
To test this, her team added microplastics to beakers containing amphipods.
As if abstractedly, he now took up the beaker, pledged madame with his glance, and drank.
But—my cigar has reached its last dying speech, and there is but a drop left in the beaker.
The king to the brim filled a beaker with wine: “I beg of thee drink to me, dear sister mine!”
The string was then fastened around the beaker as shown, and the whole suspended from a shelf.
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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