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bath

Pronunciation: (bath, bäth), [key]
—n., pl. bathsPronunciation: (ba&thslash;z, bä&thslash;z, baths, bäths), [key]
—v.

—n.
1. a washing or immersion of something, esp. 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. Often, baths. one of the elaborate bathing establishments of the ancients: the baths of Caracalla.
7. Usually, baths. 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. Metall.
a. the depressed hearth of a steelmaking furnace.
b. 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. take a bath, Informal.to suffer a large financial loss: Many investors are taking a bath on their bond investments.

—v.t., v.i.
to wash or soak in a bath.