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beaker

UK/ˈbiːkə(ɹ)/US/ˈbiːkɚ/

beaker noun: a flat-bottomed, straight-sided, glass vessel, with a lip and often a small spout, used as a laboratory container.

Noun

beaker (plural beakers)

  1. A flat-bottomed, straight-sided, glass vessel, with a lip and often a small spout, used as a laboratory container.
  2. A drinking vessel without a handle.
    • The beakers of mead spilled in huge puddles.1961, Norma Lorre Goodrich, “Beowulf”, in The Medieval Myths, New York: The New American Library, page 30
  3. A mug.
  4. An ancient bell-shaped ceramic pot with a wide mouth, narrow neck, and flaring body, used by the Beaker people during the late Neolithic and early Bronze Age.
  5. (slang, Antarctica) A scientist.
    • […] at every meal break he shambled into the galley black-fingered and smelling of engine-grease and concrete floors, to contemplate over his meal the beakers at their round tables chatting away, completely oblivious […]2008, Kim Stanley Robinson, Antarctica, page 52

beaker meaning in Tamil, Bengali, Malayalam and Kannada

beaker in Tamil

முகவை, மூக்குக் குவளை, குடிகலன், பருகுகலம், கொடுகலம், ஆய்களங்களுக்குரிய மூக்குடைய ஊற்றுகலம்

beaker in Bengali

বিকার, পরীক্ষাগার গ্লাস

beaker in Malayalam

ബീക്കർ

beaker in Kannada

flat-bottomed laboratory vessel
ಚುಂಚುಪಾತ್ರೆ cuñcupātre
More languagesFewer languages
beaker in Tagalog
lumbo
beaker in Malay
bikar
beaker in Indonesian
gelas piala
beaker in Persian
بشر bešer

Examples of beaker in a sentence

  • The latter includes a basal disc and a tiny periderm beaker enveloping the pedal region.
  • 'We'll drink to a thanksome outcome o that,' said Lady Magdalen, and they raised their beakers.
  • Transfer the acetone washings to a tared beaker and evaporate to dryness at ambient temperature and pressure.

All 10 example sentences with beaker

Forms of beaker

pluralbeakers

Plural of beaker: beakers

Origin of beaker

From Middle English bekyr, biker, from Old Norse bikarr (“cup”), from Old Saxon bikeri (“cup”), from Proto-West Germanic *bikārī, from Late Latin bīcārium (“wine vat, jug”), of disputed origin. Possibly from Ancient Greek βῖκος (bîkos, “earthenware jug, wine jar”), or from Latin bacarium (“wine vat, vase”). Cognate with Saterland Frisian Bieker (“mug, cup, beaker”), Dutch beker (“beaker, cup”), German Becher (“beaker, cup, goblet”), Danish bæger (“beaker”), Italian bicchiere (“cup, glass (for drink)”). Doublet of pitcher.

Words formed from beaker

Words that rhyme with beaker

Questions about beaker

What does beaker mean?
Beaker means a flat-bottomed, straight-sided, glass vessel, with a lip and often a small spout, used as a laboratory container.
What is beaker in Tamil?
Beaker in Tamil is முகவை, மூக்குக் குவளை, குடிகலன். See Beaker meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is beaker?
Beaker is a noun.
How do you pronounce beaker?
Beaker is pronounced /ˈbiːkə(ɹ)/ (UK).
What is the plural of beaker?
The plural of beaker is beakers.

Words near beaker in the dictionary

  1. beaked
  2. beaked off
  3. beaked salmon
  4. beaked whale
  5. beaked whales
  6. beaker
  7. beaker folk
  8. beaker people
  9. beakerful
  10. beakerfuls
  11. beakers

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: beaker (page history and authors); beaker (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); beaker (Bengali Wiktionary) (page history and authors); beaker (Malayalam Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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