thermos
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1.9
- noun
- /ˈθɜrməs/
:
termo
- She took a thermos of iced tea to the beach.
- thermos bottle
- thermos of coffee
- thermos flask
Those rocks are in an insulated tank, like a thermos, and they'll stay hot for a week.
- Those rocks are in an insulated tank, like a thermos, and they'll stay hot for a week.
- But now thermoses keep things, like, scalding hot.
- So for example, Washoe spontaneously put together the words hot drink for thermos flask the first time that she discovered what it did.
- This is an Ice Giant Thermos siphon prototype.
- OK, so you have a black hole thermos and it is filled with OK, so liquor.
- So there was a thermos on the couch.
- His solution for his favorite meal, Monster Mash, is a thermos.
- And I think the best bit is there's one where Dua as a thermos flask is presenting about how thermos flask works.
Examples
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Dennis picks up a Thermos from the floor, unscrews the lid, and pours hot liquid into the cup.
Fiction book (1990) -
I filled my thermos with hot soup for the picnic.
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I filled a Thermos with apple juice.
Fiction book (1999) -
None of y'all brought a Thermos of coffee out here ?
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Carter, I'd better take that Thermos of cocoa with me.
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There's some coffee in the Thermos.
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If you have a thermos like this, you can actually put hot dogs into it with boiling water and then you can have a hot lunch on your picnic.
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"Sorry to screw up your day, Mac," Finnerty said as he poured himself a cup of black coffee from a battered Thermos.
Fiction book (1990) -
Busy morning, so just a few handfuls of granola and black coffee for breakfast, carried in a Thermos on the subway and slurped throughout the morning at my desk.
Blog text (34) -
A copper teapot shines on the black, oval table—two plates with remnants of stale food and the stained top of a Thermos.
Fiction book (1998)
Synonyms
1
2.5
A bottle that keeps drinks hot or cold for a long time
A container that keeps drinks hot or cold for a long time
A container with two walls and empty space between them that keeps drinks hot or cold
Compounds
How Insulating
Surface Forms
Etymology
Thermos comes from the Greek word thermos meaning 'hot', the same root as thermometer and thermal. So, a thermos is a bottle that keeps drinks hot or cold for a long time.