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单词 beaker
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beaker

[ bee-ker ]
/ ˈbi kər /
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noun

a large drinking cup or glass with a wide mouth.
contents of a beaker: consuming a beaker of beer at one gulp.
a flat-bottomed cylindrical container, usually with a pouring lip, especially one used in a laboratory.

adjective

(initial capital letter) of or relating to the Beaker folk.

Origin of beaker

First recorded in 1300–50; alteration of Middle English biker, from Old Norse bikarr, from Old Saxon bikeri (compare Old High German bechari, German Becher, Dutch beker ), from unattested Latin bic(c)arium, -ius, of uncertain origin. See pitcher1

Words nearby beaker

Beaglehole, beagling, beak, beaked pelvis, beaked whale, beaker, beaker cell, Beaker folk, beaking joint, beaky-nosed, Beal
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British Dictionary definitions for beaker

beaker
/ (ˈbiːkə) /

noun

a cup usually having a wide moutha plastic beaker
a cylindrical flat-bottomed container used in laboratories, usually made of glass and having a pouring lip
the amount a beaker holds

Word Origin for beaker

C14: from Old Norse bikarr; related to Old High German behhāri, Middle Dutch bēker beaker, Greek bikos earthenware jug
Collins English Dictionary - Complete & Unabridged 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

Scientific definitions for beaker

beaker
[ bēkər ]

A wide, cylindrical glass container with a pouring lip, used especially in laboratories.
The American Heritage® Science Dictionary Copyright © 2011. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.
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