flask

(flăsk)

1. A small container, such as a bottle, having a narrow neck and usually a cap, especially:

a. A flat, relatively thin container for liquor.

b. A container or case for carrying gunpowder or shot.

c. A vial or round long-necked vessel for laboratory use.

2. A frame for holding a sand mold in a foundry.

[Middle English, cask, keg, from Old French flasque, from Late Latin flascō, of Germanic origin.]

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flask

(flɑːsk)

1. a bottle with a narrow neck, esp used in a laboratory or for wine, oil, etc

2. Also called: hip flask a small flattened container of glass or metal designed to be carried in a pocket, esp for liquor

3. (Historical Terms) See powder flask

4. (Metallurgy) a container packed with sand to form a mould in a foundry

5. See vacuum flask

6. (General Engineering) engineering Also called: cask or coffin a container used for transporting irradiated nuclear fuel

[C14: from Old French flasque, flaske, from Medieval Latin flasca, flasco, perhaps of Germanic origin; compare Old English flasce, flaxe]

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flask

(flæsk, flɑsk)

n.

1. a bottle, usu. of glass, having a rounded body and a narrow neck.

2. a flat bottle for carrying in the pocket.

3. an iron container for shipping mercury, holding a standard commercial unit of 76 lb. (34 kg).

4. a container into which sand is rammed around a pattern to form a mold.

[1375–1425; late Middle English: cask, keg < Anglo-French, Old French flaske < Late Latin flasca, of uncertain orig.; compare flagon]

flask

(flăsk)

A rounded container with a long neck, used in laboratories.

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ThesaurusAntonymsRelated WordsSynonymsLegend:

Noun	1.	flask - bottle that has a narrow neck ampulla - a flask that has two handles; used by Romans for wines or oils bottle - a glass or plastic vessel used for storing drinks or other liquids; typically cylindrical without handles and with a narrow neck that can be plugged or capped canteen - a flask for carrying water; used by soldiers or travelers Erlenmeyer flask - a conical flask with a wide base and narrow neck hipflask, pocket flask - a flask that holds spirits round-bottom flask - a spherical flask with a narrow neck vacuum bottle, vacuum flask - flask with double walls separated by vacuum; used to maintain substances at high or low temperatures
	2.	flask - the quantity a flask will hold flaskful containerful - the quantity that a container will hold

flask

noun vessel, bottle, container, Thermos flask (trademark), hip flask, vacuum flask He took out a metal flask from his bag.

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Translations

دَوْرَق للشرابقَارُورَةقارورَهقنينَه

čutoraláhevtermoska

flaskelommelærketermoflaskefeltflaske

Thermosflasche Flachmann Flasche Kolben

φλασκί

frasco

termospullo

fiole flacon gourde matras

pljoska

lombik

flaskahitabrúsipeli

beuta borraccia fiasco thermos

魔法瓶

플라스크

termosas

karafekolbaplakanpudeletermoss

flacon

feltflaske lommelerke termos

piersiówka

frasco

фляга фляжка

termosflaska

กระติกน้ำร้อนหรือน้ำเย็น

cep matarası şişe termosyassı şişe

bình rượu nhỏ mang theo người

保温瓶热水瓶瓶长颈瓶

flask

[flɑːsk] N (for brandy) → petaca f; (= vacuum flask) → termo m (Chem) → matraz m, redoma f

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flask

[ˈflɑːsk ˈflæsk] n

(also vacuum flask) → bouteille f thermos®

(for brandy) → flasque f

(CHEMISTRY) (used in laboratories) → ballon m

(for nuclear waste) → château m (de transport)

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flask

n → Flakon m; (Chem) → Glaskolben m; (for spirits, carried in pocket) → Flachmann m (inf), → Reiseflasche f; (= vacuum flask) → Thermosflasche f

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flask

[flɑːsk] n (for brandy) → fiaschetta (also vacuum flask) → thermos ® m inv (Chem) → pallone m, beuta

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flask

(flaːsk) noun

1. a container in which drinks can be carried. a flask of whisky.

2. a vacuum flask. The workmen carried flasks of tea.

3. a bottle, usually with a narrow neck.

flask

→ قَارُورَة čutora flaske Thermosflasche φλασκί frasco termospullo gourde pljoska borraccia 魔法瓶 플라스크 flacon feltflaske piersiówka frasco фляга termosflaska กระติกน้ำร้อนหรือน้ำเย็น cep matarası bình rượu nhỏ mang theo người 保温瓶

flask

n. frasco, pomo.

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Tall spouts were seen to leeward; and two boats, Stubb's and Flask's, were detached in pursuit.

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"Where's the gold flask, Dorothy?" he asked, and the little girl handed him the flask, which she had brought with her.

Ojo knelt again and by feeling carefully in the dark managed to fill the flask with the unseen water that was in the well.

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He jerked forward the flask and Rigg went to a fine old oaken bureau with his keys.

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A Cossack who accompanied him had handed him a knapsack and a flask, and Nesvitski was treating some officers to pies and real doppelkummel.

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He then asked for some vial to pour it into, and as there was not one in the inn, he decided on putting it into a tin oil-bottle or flask of which the host made him a free gift; and over the flask he repeated more than eighty paternosters and as many more ave-marias, salves, and credos, accompanying each word with a cross by way of benediction, at all which there were present Sancho, the innkeeper, and the cuadrillero; for the carrier was now peacefully engaged in attending to the comfort of his mules.

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Then the harpooner carried away a pink flask to be filled in some blind pig, for there were no licensed saloons in that locality.

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Flask --good-bye, and good luck to ye all --and this day three years I'll have a hot supper smoking for ye in old Nantucket.

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However, towards morning she takes a draught out of the large flask, and then she sleeps a little: then I will do something for you." She now jumped out of bed, flew to her mother; with her arms round her neck, and pulling her by the beard, said, "Good morrow, my own sweet nanny-goat of a mother." And her mother took hold of her nose, and pinched it till it was red and blue; but this was all done out of pure love.

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When he had concluded this narration, during which he had made several pauses, for the convenience of cracking and eating nuts, of which he seemed to have a pocketful, the blind man pulled a flask from his pocket, took a draught himself, and offered it to his companion.

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"I don't find a good musket, twelve cartridges, and a powder flask very useless in the face of an enemy."

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But most astonishing was the quantity of ammunition-cartridges for Lee-Metfords, for Winchesters and Marlins, for revolvers from thirty-two calibre to forty-five, shot- gun cartridges, Joan's two boxes of thirty-eight, cartridges of prodigious bore for the ancient Sniders of Malaita, flasks of black powder, sticks of dynamite, yards of fuse, and boxes of detonators.

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