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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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Take a bath
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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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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.
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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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Slang Dictionary
take a bath (on (sth)) definition
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Dictionary of American Slang and Colloquial Expressions by Richard A. Spears.Fourth Edition.
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Idioms & Phrases
take a bath
Experience serious financial loss, as in The company took a bath investing in that new product. This idiom, which originated in gambling, transfers washing oneself in a bathtub to being "cleaned out" financially. [Slang; first half of 1900s]
The American Heritage® Dictionary of Idioms by Christine Ammer.
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