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noun
1.
a large drinking cup or glass with a wide mouth.
2.
contents of a beaker: consuming a beaker of beer at one gulp.
3.
a flat-bottomed cylindrical container, usually with a pouring lip, especially one used in a laboratory.
adjective
4.
(initial capital letter) of or pertaining to the Beaker folk.
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Beaker
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Origin:
1300–50; alteration of Middle English biker < Old Norse bikarr < Old Saxon bikeri (compare Old High German bechari, German Becher, Dutch beker) < Latin *bic(c)arium, -ius, of disputed orig. See pitcher1
1300–50; alteration of Middle English biker < Old Norse bikarr < Old Saxon bikeri (compare Old High German bechari, German Becher, Dutch beker) < Latin *bic(c)arium, -ius, of disputed orig. See pitcher1
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Word Origin & History
beaker
mid-14c., from O.N. bikarr or M.Du. beker "goblet," probably from M.L. bicarium, which itself is probably a dim. of Gk. bikos "earthenware jug, wine jar" (said to be an oriental word, perhaps a borrowing from Syrian buqa "a two-handed vase or jug"). Form assimilated to beak.
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Science Dictionary
beaker  (bē'kər) Pronunciation Key
A wide, cylindrical glass container with a pouring lip, used especially in laboratories. |
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