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noun
1.
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.
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.
EXPANDa 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.
a.
the depressed hearth of a steelmaking furnace.
b.
the molten metal being made into steel in a steelmaking furnace.
12.
COLLAPSEthe state of being covered by a liquid, as perspiration: in a bath of sweat.
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Bathing
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take a bath, Informal. to suffer a large financial loss: Many investors are taking a bath on their bond investments.
Origin:
before 900; Middle English; Old English bæth; cognate with Old Frisian beth, Old Saxon, Old Norse bath, German Bad; < Germanic *bátha-n what is warmed, akin to Old High German bājan (German bähen), Swedish basa to warm; pre-Germanic *bheH- to warm, past participle *bhH-to-
before 900; Middle English; Old English bæth; cognate with Old Frisian beth, Old Saxon, Old Norse bath, German Bad; < Germanic *bátha-n what is warmed, akin to Old High German bājan (German bähen), Swedish basa to warm; pre-Germanic *bheH- to warm, past participle *bhH-to-
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bath·less, adjective
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verb (used with object)
1.
to immerse (all or part of the body) in water or some other liquid, for cleansing, refreshment, etc.
2.
to wet; wash.
3.
to moisten or suffuse with any liquid.
4.
to apply water or other liquid to, with a sponge, cloth, etc.: to bathe a wound.
5.
EXPANDto wash over or against, as by the action of the sea, a river, etc.: incoming tides bathing the coral reef.
6.
COLLAPSEto cover or surround: a shaft of sunlight bathing the room; a morning fog bathing the city.
verb (used without object)
7.
to take a bath or sunbath.
8.
to swim for pleasure.
9.
to be covered or surrounded as if with water.
noun
10.
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Word Origin & History
bath
O.E. bæð "immersing in water, mud, etc.," also "quantity of water, etc., for bathing," from P.Gmc. *batham (cf. O.N. bað, M.Du. bat, Ger. bad), from PIE base *bhe- "to warm" (cf. L. fovere "to foment"). Original sense was of heating, not immersing in water. The city in Somerset, England
EXPAND(O.E. Baðun) was so called from its hot springs.
bathe
O.E. baþian "to wash, lave, bathe" (trans. and intrans.), from root of bath (q.v.), with different vowel sound due to i-mutation.
bathing
1540s, from bathe (q.v.). Bathing suit is recorded from 1873; bathing beauty is 1920, from vaudeville.
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2010 Douglas Harper
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Medical Dictionary
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.
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