bath
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Verb Conjugation Tables & Inflections
Definitions & Usage
(real estate, informal) Clipping of bathroom.
The act of bathing; an instance of this; the taking of a bath.
Specifically, bathing by immersing the body in water, rather than through other means, or an instance of this.
An act of immersing the body in a specified substance, especially for hygiene, pleasure, or wellness, or a facility for this: e.g. mud bath, steam bath.
(by extension) A substance or preparation in which something is immersed.
(transitive, Commonwealth) To wash a person or animal in a bath.
(intransitive, informal, Commonwealth) To bathe (oneself); to have a bath.
(historical units of measure) A former Hebrew unit of liquid volume (about 23 L or 6 gallons).
Notable Literary & Historical Quotes
“Among the ancients, the public baths were of amazing extent and magnificence.”
— 1842, Joseph Gwilt, Encyclopaedia of Architecture:
“Radio-active baths are said to act favourably in a sexual direction. So too with arsenical springs, cold water treatment, and hydrotherapy.”
— 1961, Harry E. Wedeck, Dictionary of Aphrodisiacs, New York: The Citadel Press, page 156:
“He takes the prepared charcoal used by artists, brings it to a white heat, and suddenly plunges it in a bath of mercury, of which the globules instantly penetrate the pores of charcoal, and may be said to metallize it.”
— 1879, Th Du Moncel, The Telephone, the Microphone and the Phonograph, Harper, page 166: