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beaker

/bee-ker/US // ˈbi kər //UK // (ˈbiːkə) //

烧杯

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Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : a large drinking cup or glass with a wide mouth.
    • : contents of a beaker: consuming a beaker of beer at one gulp.
    • : a flat-bottomed cylindrical container, usually with a pouring lip, especially one used in a laboratory.
adj.形容词 adjective
  1. 1
    • : of or relating to the Beaker folk.

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Examples

  • He knows this firsthand, as he will occasionally provoke defensive responses with his own fingers instead of the dead mice or membrane-covered beakers he and his students use to collect venom.

  • To test this, her team added microplastics to beakers containing amphipods.

  • As if abstractedly, he now took up the beaker, pledged madame with his glance, and drank.

  • But—my cigar has reached its last dying speech, and there is but a drop left in the beaker.

  • The king to the brim filled a beaker with wine: “I beg of thee drink to me, dear sister mine!”

  • The string was then fastened around the beaker as shown, and the whole suspended from a shelf.

  • The boy took the beaker, but being openly on bad terms with the elves, argued no good to himself from such an offering.