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beakers

beakers is the plural of beaker.

Meaning of beaker

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

Questions about beakers

What is beakers the plural of?
Beakers is the plural of beaker.

Words near beakers in the dictionary

  1. beaker
  2. beaker folk
  3. beaker people
  4. beakerful
  5. beakerfuls
  6. beakers
  7. beakersful
  8. beakes
  9. beakfish
  10. beakfishes
  11. beakful

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