"thermos" meaning in English

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Noun

IPA: /ˈθɜː.mɒs/ [Received-Pronunciation], /ˈθɝ.məs/ [Canada, General-American] Audio: LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-thermos.wav [Southern-England] Forms: thermoses [plural]
Etymology: From Thermos, a trademarked name, from Ancient Greek θερμός (thermós, “warm”). Etymology templates: {{m|en|Thermos}} Thermos, {{der|en|grc|θερμός||warm}} Ancient Greek θερμός (thermós, “warm”) Head templates: {{en-noun}} thermos (plural thermoses)
  1. A bottle, flask or similar vessel having a vacuum between its inner and outer silvered walls; designed to maintain the temperature of its contents Categories (topical): Vessels Synonyms: thermal flask, thermos flask, vacuum flask Related terms: dewar Translations (vacuum flask): تِرْمُس (tirmus) [masculine] (Arabic), ترمس (turmus, tirmus) [Hijazi-Arabic, masculine] (Arabic), թերմոս (tʿermos) (Armenian), termos (Azerbaijani), тэ́рмас (térmas) [masculine] (Belarusian), те́рмос (térmos) [masculine] (Bulgarian), termos [masculine] (Catalan), 暖壺 (Chinese Cantonese), 暖壶 (alt: nyun⁵ wu⁴⁻²) (Chinese Cantonese), 熱水瓶 (Chinese Mandarin), 热水瓶 (rèshuǐpíng) (Chinese Mandarin), 暖瓶 (nuǎnpíng) (Chinese Mandarin), 暖壺 (Chinese Mandarin), 暖壶 (nuǎnhú) (Chinese Mandarin), termoska [feminine] (Czech), termoláhev [feminine] (Czech), termoso (Esperanto), termobotelo (Esperanto), izolkruĉo (Esperanto), varmobotelo (Esperanto), termospullo (Finnish), termos (Finnish), thermos [masculine] (French), თერმოსი (termosi) (Georgian), Thermoskanne [feminine] (German), θερμός (thermós) [neuter] (Greek), थरमस (tharmas) (Hindi), termosz (Hungarian), termos (Indonesian), termos [masculine] (Italian), 魔法瓶 (mahōbin) (alt: まほうびん) (Japanese), термос (termos) (Kazakh), 보온병 (boonbyeong) (alt: 保溫甁) (Korean), термос (termos) (Kyrgyz), termoss [masculine] (Latvian), termospudele [feminine] (Latvian), termosas [masculine] (Lithuanian), термос (termos) (Macedonian), халуун сав (xaluun sav) [Cyrillic] (Mongolian), термос (termos) (Ossetian), فلاسک (felâsk) (Persian), termos [masculine] (Polish), garrafa térmica [feminine] (Portuguese), те́рмос (tɛ́rmos) [masculine] (Russian), termoska [feminine] (Slovak), termo [masculine] (Spanish), chupa ombwe (Swahili), termos [common-gender] (Swedish), termos (Turkish), те́рмос (térmos) [masculine] (Ukrainian), چايدان (chaydan) (Uyghur), تېرموس (tërmos) (Uyghur), termos (Uzbek), phích (Vietnamese), bình thuỷ (Vietnamese), Thermos [feminine, masculine] (Welsh), fflasg thermos [feminine] (Welsh), fflasg wactod [feminine] (Welsh)
    Sense id: en-thermos-en-noun-nmxsS3kt Disambiguation of Vessels: 70 30 Categories (other): English links with redundant wikilinks
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Etymology number: 1

Noun

Forms: thermoi [plural]
Etymology: From Ancient Greek θέρμος (thérmos). Etymology templates: {{bor|en|grc|θέρμος}} Ancient Greek θέρμος (thérmos) Head templates: {{en-noun|thermoi}} thermos (plural thermoi)
  1. (historical) A unit of measure whose identification remains very unclear. Tags: historical Categories (topical): Units of measure
    Sense id: en-thermos-en-noun-dzn3E9Bq Disambiguation of Units of measure: 11 89 Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, English entries with language name categories using raw markup, English genericized trademarks, English terms with uncertain meaning Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 25 75 Disambiguation of English entries with language name categories using raw markup: 28 72 Disambiguation of English genericized trademarks: 23 77 Disambiguation of English terms with uncertain meaning: 18 82
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Etymology number: 2

Inflected forms

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      "word": "თერმოსი"
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      "tags": [
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      "code": "id",
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      "code": "sk",
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      "code": "sw",
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      "word": "chupa ombwe"
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      "sense": "vacuum flask",
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          "ref": "1982, “Metrology (3455–3460)”, in A[dam] Bülow-Jacobsen, J[ohn] E[dwin] G[eorge] Whitehorne, editors, The Oxyrhynchus Papyri (Graeco-Roman Memoirs; No. 69), volume XLIX, […] for the British Academy by the Egypt Exploration Society, […], →ISSN, pages 101, 104, and 105",
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          "text": "A third of a seah is a third of an ephah, and two-thirds of a bath, and the weight of a mina is fifty of shekels, and a quarter of a shekel is the weight of four thermoi.ᵍ Let the shekel be about sixteen thermoi and of one weight.[…]g. “thermoi”—A unit of measure whose identification remains very unclear.",
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