flask
nounEtymology
From Middle English flask, flaske (“case, cask, keg”), from Old English flasce, flaxe (“bottle, flask”) and Medieval Latin flascō (“bottle”); from Frankish *flaskā; both from Proto-Germanic *flaskǭ (“braid-covered bottle, wicker-enclosed jug”), from Proto-Indo-European *ploḱ-skō (“flat”), or from Proto-Indo-European *pleḱ- (“to weave”). Doublet of fiasco, flacon, and flagon. Related to Dutch fles; also German Low German Flaske, Fless, German Flasche, Danish flaske; also Lithuanian plókščias, Czech ploský, Albanian flashkët. The sense “laboratory glassware” is from Italian fiasco, and the sense “container for holding a casting mold” is from Middle French flasque (“powder flask”), itself from Old Spanish flasco, frasco, both from Late Latin above.
Definitions
A narrow-necked vessel of metal or glass, used for various purposes
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.
A container used to discreetly carry a small amount of a hard alcoholic beverage
A container used to discreetly carry a small amount of a hard alcoholic beverage; a pocket flask.
Laboratory glassware used to hold larger volumes than test tubes, normally having a…
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.
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A container for holding a casting mold, especially for sand casting molds.
A bed in a gun carriage.
A nuclear flask, a large, secure lead-lined container for the transport of nuclear…
A nuclear flask, a large, secure lead-lined container for the transport of nuclear material.
A small bottle of liquor.
To invest a denture in a flask so as to produce a sectional mold.
The neighborhood
Derived
Bologna flask, Büchner flask, Claisen flask, conical flask, Dewar flask, Erlenmeyer flask, flasker, flaskette, flaskful, flaskless, flasklet, flasklike, flask wagon, fleaker, Florence flask, hipflask, hip-flask, hip flask, hip-pocket flask, hydroflask, Kitasato flask, Kitassato flask, Kitazato flask, Kjeldahl flask, Kohlrausch flask, moon flask, moon-flask, moonflask, New Year's flask, pocket-flask, powder flask, powderflask, round-bottomed flask, Schlenk flask, slideflask, snap flask, vacuum flask, volumetric flask
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