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[ bath, bahth ]

/ bæθ, bɑθ /

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noun, plural baths [bathz, bahthz, baths, bahths]. /bæðz, bɑðz, bæθs, bɑθs/.

a washing or immersion of something, especially the body, in water, steam, etc., as for cleansing or medical treatment: I take a bath every day. Give the dog a bath.

a quantity of water or other liquid used for this purpose: running a bath.

a container for water or other cleansing liquid, as a bathtub.

a room equipped for bathing; bathroom: The house has two baths.

a building containing rooms or apartments with equipment for bathing; bathhouse.

Often baths . one of the elaborate bathing establishments of the ancients: the baths of Caracalla.

Usually baths . a town or resort visited for medical treatment by bathing or the like; spa.

a preparation, as an acid solution, in which something is immersed.

the container for such a preparation.

a device for controlling the temperature of something by the use of a surrounding medium, as sand, water, oil, etc.

Metallurgy.

1. the depressed hearth of a steelmaking furnace.
2. the molten metal being made into steel in a steelmaking furnace.

the state of being covered by a liquid, as perspiration: in a bath of sweat.

verb (used with or without object), bathed, bath·ing.Chiefly British.

to wash or soak in a bath.

Origin of bath

1

First recorded before 900; Middle English noun bath, beth, beath, Old English bæth; cognate with Old Frisian beth, Old Saxon, Old Norse bath, German Bad; from Germanic bátha-n “what is warmed,” from a root meaning “to warm”

OTHER WORDS FROM bath

bathless, adjective

noun

a Hebrew unit of liquid measure, equal to a quantity varying between 10 and 11 U.S. gallons (38 and 42 liters).

noun

a city in Avon, in SW England: mineral springs.

a seaport in SW Maine.

Words related to bath

shower, tub, bathroom, lavatory, restroom, sauna, toilet, ablution, cleansing, dip, douche, dousing, gargle, laving, scrubbing, soak, soaping, sponging, wash, spa

How to use bath in a sentence

• Facing muggy race conditions in Qatar of 88 degrees Fahrenheit with 75 percent humidity, the Canadian 50K racewalker spent ten minutes in an ice bath shortly before the race, then donned an ice towel while waiting for the start.

• There’s this stigma toward fathers that we shouldn’t be as loving or sing to our children or get them to bed or give them baths.

• How hot the bath—and the bathroom—should beThe meta analysis from 2019 zeroed in on 104 to 109 degrees Fahrenheit as a temperature range that improves sleep quality.

• No matter what shape your skin is in, sealing in the moisture of a bath is always a good thing.

• If you’re wondering how long to stay in the bath for, it’s really up to your personal preference.

• Then I see all those couples quarreling in Bed, Bath, and Beyond.

• You can not see anything in there, until it magically emerges in the developing bath.

• It was now safely back in its cage, although the chancellor sometimes let it play in the bath, he said.

• Wikipedia has an entire entry on medicinal clays, though many are of the mud-bath variety.

• Just yesterday I claimed a local deli, a small poodle and a Bed, Bath and Beyond.

• But some one, perhaps it was Robert, thought of a bath at that mystic hour and under that mystic moon.

• Then said Nqong from his bath in the salt-pan, "Come and ask me about it to-morrow, because I'm going to wash."

• When partially exhausted the aluminum shutters are dipped into a bath of shellac.

• Enjoying the keen physical pleasure of it, he thought what a wholly delightful thing was a hot bath after a day's hard hunting.

• With a desperate effort of the will he hurled himself out of the bath and threw open the window.

noun plural baths (bɑːðz)

a large container, esp one made of enamelled iron or plastic, used for washing or medically treating the bodyRelated adjective: balneal

the act or an instance of washing in such a container

the amount of liquid contained in a bath

run a bathto turn on the taps to fill a bath with water for bathing oneself

(usually plural)a place that provides baths or a swimming pool for public use

1. a vessel in which something is immersed to maintain it at a constant temperature, to process it photographically, electrolytically, etc, or to lubricate it
2. the liquid used in such a vessel

verb

Britishto wash in a bath

noun

an ancient Hebrew unit of liquid measure equal to about 8.3 Imperial gallons or 10 US gallons

noun

a city in SW England, in Bath and North East Somerset unitary authority, Somerset, on the River Avon: famous for its hot springs; a fashionable spa in the 18th century; Roman remains, notably the baths; university (1966). Pop: 90 144 (2001)Latin name: Aquae Sulis (ˈækwiːˈsuːlɪs)

noun

an Arab Socialist party, esp in Iraq and Syria, founded by Michel Aflaq in 1941. It attempts to combine Marxism with pan-Islamic nationalism

Derived forms of Ba'th

Bathi, adjectiveBathism, nounBathist, noun

Word Origin for Ba'th

C20: from Arabic: resurgence

see take a bath; throw out the baby with the bath water.