beaker — ozdic

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1

(noun.)

ADJ

glass, plastic

The chemistry student poured the liquid into a glass beaker on the laboratory bench.

VERB + BEAKER

fill, refill | drain, empty | lift, pick up, raise | place, put down, replace, set down | drink from/out of

BEAKER + VERB

contain sth

Definitions

noun

1

A flat-bottomed, straight-sided, glass vessel, with a lip and often a small spout, used as a laboratory container.

2

A drinking vessel without a handle.

The beakers of mead spilled in huge puddles.

3

A mug.

4

An ancient bell-shaped ceramic pot with a wide mouth, narrow neck, and flaring body, used by the Beaker people during the late Neolithic and early Bronze Age.

5

A scientist.

[…] at every meal break he shambled into the galley black-fingered and smelling of engine-grease and concrete floors, to contemplate over his meal the beakers at their round tables chatting away, completely oblivious […]

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01

The beakers of mead spilled in huge puddles.

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[…] at every meal break he shambled into the galley black-fingered and smelling of engine-grease and concrete floors, to contemplate over his meal the beakers at their round tables chatting away, comp

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03

The Beaker People were named after the shape of their pots.

Tatoeba · #9929231

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By slowly adding adipoyl chloride solution into a beaker of 1,6-hexanediamine, you can make a strand of nylon that generates more as you pull it out.

Tatoeba · #12427856

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