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[bath, bahth] Origin

bath

1[bath, bahth] noun, plural baths [bathz, bahthz, baths, bahths] , verb
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.
a building containing rooms or apartments with equipment for bathing; bathhouse.
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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.
the state of being covered by a liquid, as perspiration: in a bath of sweat.
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verb (used with object), verb (used without object)
13.
to wash or soak in a bath.

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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-

bath·less, adjective
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bathe

[beyth] verb, bathed, bath·ing, noun
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.
to wash over or against, as by the action of the sea, a river, etc.: incoming tides bathing the coral reef.
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6.
to cover or surround: a shaft of sunlight bathing the room; a morning fog bathing the city.
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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.
British. the act of bathing, especially in the sea, a lake, or a river; a swimming bath.

Origin:
before 1000; Middle English bath(i)en, Old English bathian, equivalent to bæth bath1 + -ian infinitive suffix

re·bathe, verb, -bathed, -bath·ing.

bath, bathe.
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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
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(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.
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bath (bāth)
n. pl. baths (bā&phonth;z, bāths)

  1. The act of soaking or cleansing the body or any of its parts, as in water.

  2. The apparatus used in giving a bath.

  3. The fluid used to maintain the metabolic activities of an organism.

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