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bath

1  [bath, bahth] noun, plural baths  [bathz, bahthz, baths, bahths] , verb
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–noun
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.
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.
–verb (used with object), verb (used without object)
13. to wash or soak in a bath.
—Idiom
14. take a bath, Informal. to suffer a large financial loss: Many investors are taking a bath on their bond investments.
Origin:
bef. 900; ME; OE bæth; c. OFris beth, OS, ON bath, G Bad; < Gmc *bátha-n what is warmed, akin to OHG bājan (G bähen), Sw basa to warm; pre-Gmc *bheH- to warm, ptp. *bhH-to-

Related forms:
bathless, adjective
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bath

2  [bath]
–noun
a Hebrew unit of liquid measure, equal to a quantity varying between 10 and 11 U.S. gallons (38 and 42 liters).
Origin:
< Heb

Bath

  [bath, bahth]
–noun
1. a city in Avon, in SW England: mineral springs. 84,300.
2. a seaport in SW Maine. 10,246.

Baʿth

  [bah-ahth]
–noun
Baath.

Ba⋅ath

  [bah-ahth]
–noun
a socialist party of some Arab countries, esp. Iraq and Syria.
Also, Baʿath, Baʿth.

Origin:
< Ar baʿath lit., renaissance

Related forms:
Ba⋅ath⋅ism, noun
Ba⋅ath⋅ist, noun, adjective
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bath 1   (bāth, bäth)   
n.   pl. baths (bāthz, bäthz, bāths, bäths)

    1. The act of soaking or cleansing the body, as in water or steam.

    2. The water used for cleansing the body.

    3. A bathtub.

    4. A bathroom.

    5. A liquid in which something is dipped or soaked for processing: immersed the metal in an acid bath.

    6. A container holding such a liquid: emptied the bath of dye.

    7. A medium, such as oil or sand, that controls the temperature of objects placed in it.

    8. A container holding such a medium.

    1. A bathtub.

    2. A bathroom.

    3. A liquid in which something is dipped or soaked for processing: immersed the metal in an acid bath.

    4. A container holding such a liquid: emptied the bath of dye.

    5. A medium, such as oil or sand, that controls the temperature of objects placed in it.

    6. A container holding such a medium.

  3. A building equipped for bathing.

  4. A resort providing therapeutic baths; a spa. Often used in the plural.

    1. A liquid in which something is dipped or soaked for processing: immersed the metal in an acid bath.

    2. A container holding such a liquid: emptied the bath of dye.

    3. A medium, such as oil or sand, that controls the temperature of objects placed in it.

    4. A container holding such a medium.

    1. A medium, such as oil or sand, that controls the temperature of objects placed in it.

    2. A container holding such a medium.


[Middle English, from Old English bæth.]
bath 2   (bāth)   
n.  An ancient Hebrew unit of liquid measure, equal to about 38 liters (10 U.S. gallons).

[Hebrew bat.]
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Word Origin & History

Baath 
pan-Arab socialist party, founded by intellectuals in Syria in 1943, from Arabic ba't "resurrection, renaissance."

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 (O.E. Baðun) was so called from its hot springs. Bathtub gin first recorded 1930. Bathroom is first recorded 1780, originally a room with apparatus for bathing, now often euphemistic for lavatory.
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper
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Medical Dictionary

Main Entry: 2bath
Function: transitive verb
British : to give a bath to bath intransitive senses
British : to takea bath
Merriam-Webster's Medical Dictionary, © 2002 Merriam-Webster, Inc.
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Medical Dictionary

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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Bible Dictionary

Baths

The use of the bath was very frequent among the Hebrews (Lev. 14:8; Num. 19:19, ect.). The high priest at his inauguration (Lev. 8:6), and on the day of atonement, was required to bathe himself (16:4, 24). The "pools" mentioned in Neh. 3:15, 16, 2 Kings 20:20, Isa. 22:11, John 9:7, were public bathing-places.

Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary
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