flask

¹

[ flask, flahsk ]

noun

1. a bottle, usually of glass, having a rounded body and a narrow neck, used especially in laboratory experimentation.
2. a flat metal or glass bottle for carrying in the pocket:

   a flask of brandy.

3. an iron container for shipping mercury, holding a standard commercial unit of 76 pounds (34 kilograms).
4. Metallurgy. a container into which sand is rammed around a pattern to form a mold.

flask

²

[ flask, flahsk ]

noun

, Ordnance.

1. the armored plates making up the sides of a gun-carriage trail.
2. Obsolete. the bed of a gun carriage.

flask

/ flɑːsk /

noun

1. a bottle with a narrow neck, esp used in a laboratory or for wine, oil, etc
2. Also calledhip flask a small flattened container of glass or metal designed to be carried in a pocket, esp for liquor
3. See powder flask
   See powder flask
4. a container packed with sand to form a mould in a foundry
5. See vacuum flask
   See vacuum flask
6. Also calledcaskcoffin engineering a container used for transporting irradiated nuclear fuel

flask

/ flăsk /

1. A rounded container with a long neck, used in laboratories.

Word History and Origins

Origin of flask¹

First recorded in 1375–1425; late Middle English: “cask, keg,” from Anglo-French, Old French flaske, Late Latin flasca, earlier flascō, of uncertain origin; compare Old English flasce, flaxe, Old High German flasca ( German flasche ); flagon

Origin of flask²

1570–80; < dialectal French flasque cheek of a gun carriage < Late Latin flasca flask ¹

Word History and Origins

Origin of flask¹

C14: from Old French flasque, flaske , from Medieval Latin flasca, flasco , perhaps of Germanic origin; compare Old English flasce, flaxe

Example Sentences

Just because you have a bug that produces a gram per liter in a flask doesn’t mean you are ready to be commercial.

From MIT Technology Review

Then, the researchers placed the horde of variants inside a flask that also contained toxic aldehydes to see which yeasts would survive.

From Science News

With a sympathetic look Kierk grabs up his organoid’s flask.

From Nautilus

Obviously that started with the temperature control mugs and flasks, but that IP lends itself to so many other application.

From TechCrunch

Every so often, researchers moved a tiny bit of the mix into fresh flasks with more plastic and liquid.

From Science News For Students

The company recently partnered with Oakley to create a one-of-a-kind single malt Scotch flask.

From The Daily Beast

Then, from a pocket inside his camouflage top, he pulled a hidden stainless steel flask.

From The Daily Beast

Madison, who sat at the front of the room hiding his flask, was just the beginning.

From The Daily Beast

That date is etched onto a flask he gave me to store last minute, to be given back in the states once we were home.

From The Daily Beast

This convivial mask he wears, along with his omnipresent flask, is obscuring a deep hurt stemming from his father.

From The Daily Beast

And more than one broken flask on its way to the rubbish heap was carefully carried up the hill to the hidden family.

From Project Gutenberg

Rashid, the attendant, knew all Kazmah's clients, and with the box or flask he gave them a quantity of the required drug.

From Project Gutenberg

Ward picked up a flask of corn whiskey and slipped it into his hip pocket.

From Project Gutenberg

One of the women raised Mysie up, gave her a drink from a flask containing cold tea, and sat her aside to rest a short time.

From Project Gutenberg

She caught up a flask of vinegar, and tried to restore the old priest to consciousness.

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