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flask
1[ flask, flahsk ]
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.
flask
2[ flask, flahsk ]
noun
- the armored plates making up the sides of a gun-carriage trail.
- Obsolete. the bed of a gun carriage.
flask
/ flɑːsk /
noun
- a bottle with a narrow neck, esp used in a laboratory or for wine, oil, etc
- Also calledhip 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 calledcaskcoffin engineering a container used for transporting irradiated nuclear fuel
flask
/ flăsk /
- A rounded container with a long neck, used in laboratories.
Word History and Origins
Word History and Origins
Origin of flask1
Example Sentences
Just because you have a bug that produces a gram per liter in a flask doesn’t mean you are ready to be commercial.
Then, the researchers placed the horde of variants inside a flask that also contained toxic aldehydes to see which yeasts would survive.
With a sympathetic look Kierk grabs up his organoid’s flask.
Obviously that started with the temperature control mugs and flasks, but that IP lends itself to so many other application.
Every so often, researchers moved a tiny bit of the mix into fresh flasks with more plastic and liquid.
The company recently partnered with Oakley to create a one-of-a-kind single malt Scotch flask.
Then, from a pocket inside his camouflage top, he pulled a hidden stainless steel flask.
Madison, who sat at the front of the room hiding his flask, was just the beginning.
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.
This convivial mask he wears, along with his omnipresent flask, is obscuring a deep hurt stemming from his father.
And more than one broken flask on its way to the rubbish heap was carefully carried up the hill to the hidden family.
Rashid, the attendant, knew all Kazmah's clients, and with the box or flask he gave them a quantity of the required drug.
Ward picked up a flask of corn whiskey and slipped it into his hip pocket.
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.
She caught up a flask of vinegar, and tried to restore the old priest to consciousness.
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