1. a washing or immersion of something, especially the body, in water, steam, etc., as for cleansing or medical treatment: I take a bath every day. Give the dog a bath.
2. a quantity of water or other liquid used for this purpose: running a bath.
3. a container for water or other cleansing liquid, as a bathtub.
4. a room equipped for bathing; bathroom: The house has two baths.
5. a building containing rooms or apartments with equipment for bathing; bathhouse.
6. one of the elaborate bathing establishments of the ancients: the baths of Caracalla.
7. a town or resort visited for medical treatment by bathing or the like; spa.
8. a preparation, as an acid solution, in which something is immersed.
9. the container for such a preparation.
10. a device for controlling the temperature of something by the use of a surrounding medium, as sand, water, oil, etc.
11. Metallurgy.
• the depressed hearth of a steelmaking furnace.
• the molten metal being made into steel in a steelmaking furnace.
12. the state of being covered by a liquid, as perspiration:in a bath of sweat.

13. to wash or soak in a bath.

14. to suffer a large financial loss: Many investors are taking a bath on their bond investments.

1. a Hebrew unit of liquid measure, equal to a quantity varying between 10 and 11 U.S. gallons (38 and 42 liters).

1. a city in Avon, in SW England: mineral springs.
2. a seaport in SW Maine.

1. a large container, esp one made of enamelled iron or plastic, used for washing or medically treating the body
2. the act or an instance of washing in such a container
3. the amount of liquid contained in a bath
4. to turn on the taps to fill a bath with water for bathing oneself
5. a place that provides baths or a swimming pool for public use
• a vessel in which something is immersed to maintain it at a constant temperature, to process it photographically, electrolytically, etc, or to lubricate it
• the liquid used in such a vessel

7. to wash in a bath

1. an ancient Hebrew unit of liquid measure equal to about 8.3 Imperial gallons or 10 US gallons

1. a city in SW England, in Bath and North East Somerset unitary authority, Somerset, on the River Avon: famous for its hot springs; a fashionable spa in the 18th century; Roman remains, notably the baths; university (1966). Pop: 90 144 (2001)

1. an Arab Socialist party, esp in Iraq and Syria, founded by Michel Aflaq in 1941. It attempts to combine Marxism with pan-Islamic nationalism

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