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Definitions for Flask

[1] a bottle, usually of glass, having a rounded body and a narrow neck, used especially in laboratory experimentation.
[2] a flat metal or glass bottle for carrying in the pocket: a flask of brandy.
[3] an iron container for shipping mercury, holding a standard commercial unit of 76 pounds (34 kg).
[4] Metallurgy . a container into which sand is rammed around a pattern to form a mold.
[5] the armored plates making up the sides of a gun-carriage trail.
[6] Obsolete . the bed of a gun carriage.
[7] a bottle with a narrow neck, esp used in a laboratory or for wine, oil, etc
[8] Also called: hip flask a small flattened container of glass or metal designed to be carried in a pocket, esp for liquor
[9] See powder flask
[10] a container packed with sand to form a mould in a foundry
[11] See vacuum flask
[12] Also called: cask , coffin engineering a container used for transporting irradiated nuclear fuel

Words related to Flask

beaker, jug, vial, urn, chalice, decanter, canteen, carafe, crock, glass, retort, jar, ewer, noggin, bag, bottle, fiasco, flagon, crystal, demijohn

Words nearby Flask

flashlight fish, flashover, flashpacker, flashtube, flashy, flask, flasket, flat, flat arch, flat as a pancake, flat back

Origin of Flask

21570–80; < dialectal French flasque cheek of a gun carriage < Late Latin flasca flask1

Word origin for Flask

C14: from Old French flasque, flaske , from Medieval Latin flasca, flasco , perhaps of Germanic origin; compare Old English flasce, flaxe

Synonyms for Flask

beaker, canteen, carafe, chalice, decanter, jug, urn, vial, alembic, ampulla, bag, bottle, caster, crock, cruet, crystal, demijohn, ewer, fiasco, flagon, glass, goblet, gourd, horn, jar, noggin, phial, retort, tumbler, flacon, flasket