noun, plural baths [bath
z, bahth
z, baths, bahths]
, verb | 1. | a washing or immersion of something, esp. the body, in water, steam, etc., as for cleansing or medical treatment: I take a bath every day. Give the dog a bath. |
| 2. | a quantity of water or other liquid used for this purpose: running a bath. |
| 3. | a container for water or other cleansing liquid, as a bathtub. |
| 4. | a room equipped for bathing; bathroom: The house has two baths. |
| 5. | a building containing rooms or apartments with equipment for bathing; bathhouse. |
| 6. | Often, baths. one of the elaborate bathing establishments of the ancients: the baths of Caracalla. |
| 7. | Usually, baths. a town or resort visited for medical treatment by bathing or the like; spa. |
| 8. | a preparation, as an acid solution, in which something is immersed. |
| 9. | the container for such a preparation. |
| 10. | a device for controlling the temperature of something by the use of a surrounding medium, as sand, water, oil, etc. |
| 11. | Metallurgy.
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| 12. | the state of being covered by a liquid, as perspiration: in a bath of sweat. |
| 13. | to wash or soak in a bath. |
| 14. | take a bath, Informal. to suffer a large financial loss: Many investors are taking a bath on their bond investments. |

| a socialist party of some Arab countries, esp. Iraq and Syria. |

bath (bāth)
n. pl. baths (bā&phonth;z, bāths)
The act of soaking or cleansing the body or any of its parts, as in water.
The apparatus used in giving a bath.
The fluid used to maintain the metabolic activities of an organism.
Bath
a Hebrew liquid measure, the tenth part of an homer (1 Kings 7:26, 38; Ezek. 45:10, 14). It contained 8 gallons 3 quarts of our measure. "Ten acres of vineyard shall yield one bath" (Isa. 5:10) denotes great unproductiveness.
bath
process of soaking the body in water or some other aqueous matter such as mud, steam, or milk. The bath may have cleanliness or curative purposes, and it can have religious, mystical, or some other meaning (see ritual bath).
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