FLASK

Pronunciation (US):

(GB):

IPA (US):

 Dictionary entry overview: What does flask mean? 

• FLASK (noun)
  The noun FLASK has 2 senses:

1. bottle that has a narrow neck

2. the quantity a flask will hold

  Familiarity information: FLASK used as a noun is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• FLASK (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Bottle that has a narrow neck

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Hypernyms ("flask" is a kind of...):

bottle (a glass or plastic vessel used for storing drinks or other liquids; typically cylindrical without handles and with a narrow neck that can be plugged or capped)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "flask"):

ampulla (a flask that has two handles; used by Romans for wines or oils)

canteen (a flask for carrying water; used by soldiers or travelers)

Erlenmeyer flask (a conical flask with a wide base and narrow neck)

hipflask; pocket flask (a flask that holds spirits)

round-bottom flask (a spherical flask with a narrow neck)

vacuum bottle; vacuum flask (flask with double walls separated by vacuum; used to maintain substances at high or low temperatures)

Sense 2

Meaning:

The quantity a flask will hold

Classified under:

Nouns denoting quantities and units of measure

Synonyms:

flask; flaskful

Hypernyms ("flask" is a kind of...):

containerful (the quantity that a container will hold)

 Context examples 

Attachment is improved by using collagen coated flasks.

(PC-12, NCI Thesaurus)

He screwed up his face as he took a sup from Sir Charles’s brandy flask.

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

A unit of cell concentration expressed as a number of cells per flask.

(Cell per Flask, NCI Thesaurus)

“A most husky question, my fair bird! But how? A flask, a flask!—by all that is wonderful!”

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

The pulses were focused into a flask containing mixtures of hydrogen, nitrogen and carbon dioxide gases, representing the early Martian atmosphere.

(Asteroids, Hydrogen Make Great Recipe for Life on Mars, NASA)

A type of culture in which cells are grown in flasks or bottles.

(Flask or Bottle Culture, NCI Thesaurus)

Then she placed beside him a loaf, and some meat, and a flask of wine, of such a kind, that however much he took of them, they would never grow less.

(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)

Holmes was bending over my chair, his flask in his hand.

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

"Why, where is Amy's bottle of cologne?" she added, as the little flask did not appear.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

We had had some biscuit and dried fish for supper, and Steerforth had produced from his pocket a full flask of Hollands, which we men (I may say we men, now, without a blush) had emptied.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)