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American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright © 2016 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

vacuum flask

an insulating flask that has double walls, usually of silvered glass, with an evacuated space between them. It is used for maintaining substances at high or low temperatures. Also called: Thermos or Dewar flask

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Noun

vacuum flask - flask with double walls separated by vacuum; used to maintain substances at high or low temperatures

vacuum bottle

Dewar, Dewar flask - vacuum flask that holds liquid air or helium for scientific experiments

flask - bottle that has a narrow neck

thermos, thermos bottle, thermos flask - vacuum flask that preserves temperature of hot or cold drinks

Translations

يِرْموس لِحِفظ حَرارَة السَّوائِل

Thermosflasche

thermos

保温瓶

vacuum flask

vacuum bottle (Am) n → termos m inv

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vacuum

(ˈvӕkjuəm) noun

1. a space from which (almost) all air or other gas has been removed.

2. short for vacuum cleaner.

verb

to clean (something) using a vacuum cleaner. She vacuumed the carpet.

vacuum cleaner

a machine that cleans carpets etc by sucking dust etc into itself.

ˈvacuum flask noun

a container with double walls that have a vacuum between them to keep the contents from losing or gaining heat. a (vacuum-)flask of hot coffee.

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1923: Chemist and physicist Sir James Dewar, who invented the vacuum flask, died in London.

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