bath — English Dictionary

Noun

1. A tub or pool which is used for bathing: bathtub.

2. A building or area where bathing occurs.

   Examples

   Among the ancients, the public baths were of amazing extent and magnificence.

3. The act of bathing; an instance of this; the taking of a bath.

4. Specifically, bathing by immersing the body in water, rather than through other means, or an instance of this.

   Examples

   Do you prefer baths or showers?

5. An act of immersing the body in a specified substance, especially for hygiene, pleasure, or wellness, or a facility for this: e.g. mud bath, steam bath.

   Examples

   Radio-active baths are said to act favourably in a sexual direction. So too with arsenical springs, cold water treatment, and hydrotherapy.

6. The body of liquid one bathes in.

7. A substance or preparation in which something is immersed.

   Usage

   • broadly

   Examples

   a bath of heated sand, ashes, steam, or hot air

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   He takes the prepared charcoal used by artists, brings it to a white heat, and suddenly plunges it in a bath of mercury, of which the globules instantly penetrate the pores of charcoal, and may be said to metallize it.

   While the yarn is soaking in its water and vinegar bath, I prepare a selection of dyes for my preferred colorway.

Verb

1. To wash a person or animal in a bath.

   Usage

   • Commonwealth usage
   • Transitive

   Examples

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   Somewhere to bath the baby: don't invest in a plastic baby bath. The bathroom handbasin is usually a much more convenient place to bath the baby. If your partner is more able, this could be a task he might take on as his, bathing the baby in a basin or plastic bown on the floor.

   For grooming at home, obviously the choice is yours whether you wish to bath the dog in your own bath or sink, or if you want to buy one specifically for the purpose.

   If you find bathing stressfull during the first six weeks, only bath your baby once or twice a week.

2. To bathe (oneself); to have a bath.

   Usage

   • Commonwealth usage
   • Informal
   • Intransitive

   Examples

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   “Oh, dear no, not me; I never bath, ’tis the cat has been bathing, in a warm sea bath; I’ll tell you how I manage: I bought a large pickle-jar, and so I have it filled every morning with hot sea water, proportionate to the thermometerical heat my finger can bear, and that I stile Tink-a-tink’s bath; in which I immerge him all but his head, for a quarter of an hour; and he looks so pretty, and receives so much benefit, you would be surprised.”

   A man's home may be handy to the mine, in which case he would not need to lose the bath, but if he lived any distance away he would bath at the mine.

   In a flight of fancy, Millot even wanted to create public bath houses alongside the Seine, so young children could bath in the river’s healthful waters.

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   Parents would bath after all the children had gone to bed or older children sent into the front room.

Noun

1. A former Hebrew unit of liquid volume (about 23 L or 6 gallons).

   Usage

   • Historical

   Examples

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   Ye shall have just balances, and a just ephah, and a just bath. The ephah and the bath shall be of one measure, that the bath may contain the tenth part of an homer, and the ephah the tenth part of an homer: the measure thereof shall be after the homer.

Noun

1. a vessel containing liquid in which something is immersed (as to process it or to maintain it at a constant temperature or to lubricate it)

   Broader terms

   vessel

   Examples

   she soaked the etching in an acid bath

2. a soaking and washing in a bathtub

   Broader terms

   washupbathing

   Examples

   he has a good bath every morning

3. an ancient Hebrew liquid measure equal to about 10 gallons

   Broader terms

   liquid unitliquid measure