Definition of flask in English:

flask

noun flɑːskflæsk

1A container for liquids.
Example sentencesExamples
- Arven examined the box and saw at its end was a spout that was draining liquid into a flask.
- Next, he placed them in the bowl over the fire, and added some of the steaming liquid from the flask.
- Three television sets surmounted a polished wood counter, with innumerable flasks and glasses dangling by their stems in racks above the rows of bottled liquors and beverages.
- Barth put his head in his hands and stared down at the greenish liquid in his flask.
- He reached into his bag and pulled out three cups and a flask of some greenish blue liquid.
- He opened the flask and allowed a small amount of the dark liquid to pour into his wine.
- One of the flasks holds an oily liquid approximating to coffee while the other holds almost-boiling water that might nearly brew a half-strength cup of extra-weak tea.
- The doctor handed Alex a flask that contained some kind of red liquid in it.
- A spokesman told Reuters that two small flasks containing traces of the poison were discovered in a left luggage depot at the mainline railway station which serves the south of France.
- The head nurse was standing over her with a silver flask of water in one hand and a damp white cloth in the other.
- Jonathan pulled out a small flask, and shook it a bit and heard liquid sloshing around.
- With that, I opened up the flask with my mouth and began pouring cold liquid on my injured hand.
- He looks at the cup, smiles, and adds a little liquid from a flask.
- With a few gurgling noises created from his throat, and, evidently, some mucus, he filled the glass to a quarter inch below the brim with the liquid in the flask.
- He pushed a large flask filled with a sparkling, curious, blue liquid into her palm.
- The men pulled out food: dried fruit and cheese, bread and salted meats, wine and small flasks of water.
- To the back of Adian lay a bar, with flasks and wooden kegs that were tapped for liquid stacked in every available place.
- He uncorked it, and poured the clear liquid into the flask.
- During the night their thirst became so bad that Folcher went down to the village to fill up their flasks at the fountain.
- She looked at Alistra, and unbuckled her safety belt, containing a water flask, some rations (in case they got lost), and her weapons.
Synonyms
bottle, container, vessel
1. 1.1 A narrow-necked glass container, typically conical or spherical, used in a laboratory to hold reagents or samples.
  （尤指实验室里装试剂或标本的圆锥形或球形）细颈烧瓶
  Example sentencesExamples
  Working solutions had also been prepared in amber glass volumetric flasks by appropriate dilution just before use.
  The cells could also be grown as suspension culture in conical flasks on a rotary shaker giving higher yield of cells.
  He then dissolved the glassy residue in dilute hydrochloric acid, boiled it, and left it to stand for several days in a corked flask.
  The GA solution was dried in a rotor evaporator and then incubated under vacuum overnight in a reagent flask.
  Gas in the headspace of flasks was sampled with a tight syringe.
  Those folks would have understood instantly what I was up to last week, stirring zinc powder in a flask with some dilute hydrochloric acid and washing it off.
  Five minutes passed and the scientist held up two flasks filled with liquid: blue and green.
  The only time they are exposed to Bunsen burners and round-bottomed flasks is when they open text books to study.
  Liquid culture was in 100 ml of the medium in 250 ml conical flasks.
  The tips remained in the same Thunberg tubes with 10 ml of solution for the first 8 h, and then were transferred to 50 ml in conical flasks.
  Beside him is a flask of smokey bubbling liquid amid a clutter of apparatus.
  In longer term experiments the aerated treatments were in 100 ml of solution in conical flasks.
  The flask is then heated to a temperature above the boiling point of the liquid.
  The scientists had their backs turned to the door and were inspecting a cupboard full of flasks and vials holding multi-colored liquids.
  After 8 h of re-aeration, the excised coleoptile tips were transferred to conical flasks with 50 ml aerated nutrient solution.
  Levengood tested the metal fragment for the presence of hydrogen by putting a sample in a flask with a weak solution of acetic acid.
  They put methane, ammonia and carbon dioxide in a flask with some water, sparked some electricity through it, and after a week they got a brown sludge which contained amino acids.
  Each soil sample was mixed with 100 ml of gastric solution in volumetric glass flasks.
  She turned around on her stool with a bright smile on her face holding the flask and a test tube out to the confused young man.
  Immediately after weighing the roots were transferred to 250 ml round-bottom flasks, immersed in kerosene and sealed with plastic corks.
2. 1.2 A narrow-necked bulbous glass container, typically with a covering of wickerwork, for storing wine or oil.
  （尤指有柳条编织套的藏酒或油用的）细颈球形玻璃容器
  Example sentencesExamples
  In a broader sense, New Orleans is a ‘movable feast’, a flask of good wine that you carry with you wherever you are.
  After that, the colonel explained that it would take more than two years for the young boy to go near another flask of wine without feeling nauseous.
  She slid a wooden platter between the bars of the cage: two steaming lumps of goat's flesh, with a hunch of bread and a flask of wine.
  The wine comes in deep-bottomed 46 cl flasks.
  They also brought water, which went largely untouched while there was still wine in the flask.
  The Tuscan origins of this fiaschetteria (where wine in straw flasks was sold) are honoured in a range of Chianina steak dishes and in a wine list which is strong on Chiantis and Brunellos.
  When there's no more wine in the flask at my table my friends are happy to drink my water.
  He chose a spice wine flask while adjusting the military standard transponder.
  But as she recorded their business accounts, the story of Moses flitted in and out of her head between the credits and debits, the flasks of beer and wine and jars of olive oil and measures of profit.
  He kept the young man to dinner, and made himself very agreeable by the freedom and liveliness of his conversation, especially when warmed by a flask or two of Tuscan wine.
  We find there some of the same costly foodstuffs (especially cherries and roast fowl) and wine flasks.
  ‘Sky wine,’ answered he Captain as he replaced the flask under the folds of his tunic.
  One parcel, wrapped in cloth, contained bread, cheese, and a small flask of wine.
  Deran decided he really didn't want to know, and while the boy chattered on, he tried to creep away, intending to get a refill for his wine flask.
  Synonyms
  jug, vessel, container, bottle, carafe, decanter, mug, tankard, ewer, pitcher, crock, demijohn
3. 1.3British A vacuum flask.
  〈英〉保温瓶，热水瓶
  Example sentencesExamples
  Her mother must have been mad to allow it, but she did and even provided a flask of coffee, which didn't survive the rigid rear suspension.
  That is, if you take a nice flask of coffee and rum for the cold nights.
  Former serviceman Ray's next port of call was to grab his flask and give the ‘shaken’ woman driver a cup of coffee to calm her.
  As there is no time or facility at the other office for making endless cups I take a big flask with me.
  Since that day Mary had carried a flask of tea with her, now noting with dismay that she had left it behind at the wall.
  I will ask my wife to prepare me some sandwiches, and make a flask of strong, hot tea to go with my tube of peppermints - that should do it.
  I took a flask of coffee and some bacon sandwiches, sat on a bench, and thought about life.
  McPeabody unscrewed the lid and poured some of the flask's liquid contents into his coffee cup.
  He got up at six, packed his car with hot-water bottle, shovel, flask and blanket, and took three hours to drive 12 miles.
  So, I made a flask of tea and a knocked together breakfasty lunch to take out in the car.
  They held Britain to ransom with a flask of tea and some picnic chairs.
  This time the modern-day Lady workers were enjoying a string concert and a glass or two of wine (though I suspect some people smuggled in flasks of rosehip tea).
  Their contribution to the daytrip consisted of two apples and a flask of green tea.
  If you really need to drive, take a flask of coffee and a packed lunch.
  Suddenly oblivious to my presence, she dropped her purse on my desk, pulled out a flask and a small jar of olives and made herself another strong one.
  I have also been taking with me a flask of soup and a blanket.
  At 8.45 I shall make flasks of strong, black coffee and also have chilled mineral water on hand in case of dehydration.
  A flask of Greek coffee so sweet and thick you could cut it with a knife wakes you up and it's time to go back to work again.
  For most of us that means a ramble across the North York Moors, or a bracing walk along the east coast before map reading our way back to the car for a flask of tea.
  Good spot to stop for a cup of coffee providing you have taken your flask with you!
4. 1.4 A hip flask.
  可放在身后裤袋里的酒瓶
  Example sentencesExamples
  Between the folds of the bottom towel in the linen closet, he retrieved a silver flask and took several greedy swallows.
  At the summit, while taking celebratory sips of whiskey from my Kansas City Chiefs flask, we were approached by an athletic couple from Colorado.
  She walked to the oblong metal coffee-table and picked up a silver flask.
  There in the corner of the room (or relegated to an unloved table just outside the door) you'll find a wobbly pile of undersize crockery and two silver flasks.
  They palled up with booze and they kept their pal close at hand: a pint in the glove box, a flask on the hip, and most famously, the fifth in the desk.
  I walked next to him for an hour or so and shared my brandy flask with him.
  He pulled out the obligatory silver flask from the suitcase and took a long drink.
  Near death, he injected himself with a liquid he kept in a tiny flask on his girdle.
  Cleo had wandered to the sofa and was pulling a flask from her small silver shoulder purse.
  The silver flask touched her lips as reverently as the Christian chalice of gold.
  Summiting about noon, we found other climbers blissed-out in the sun, eating crackers and drinking from little silver flasks.
5. 1.5 The contents of a flask.
  瓶装物
  a flask of coffee
  一瓶咖啡。
  Example sentencesExamples
  He would drive out each day, a flask of iced tea in one pocket, a bottle of cognac in the other - every inch the fearless veteran war photographer.
  Shall we go back to the days of bringing a flask of tea and a packed lunch?
  The German student cracked open a flask of schnapps and I chipped in my packed lunch.
  And behind any club at night you will find gangs of sophisticated and gorgeous thirty-somethings swigging guiltily from an illicit flask of vodka.
  Accompanied by a flask of tea and his familiar pipe, Britain's most famous campaigner for socialism filled the Grand's stage without ever leaving his comfy seat.
  Sitting alone on the stage with only his trademark flask of tea and his pipe for company, the old boy positively exudes optimism.
  I raised the flask of holy water to his lips and let him drink.
  Wives brought sandwiches and flasks of tea for lunch and children played on the mounds of soil.
  Before meeting her, I might have listed these as follows: thermals, a woolly hat and a flask of whisky.
  We have even found a hot flask of coffee there, so the person certainly wasn't far away.
  It's great to hear Rich and Stew's classic dialogue again, all best washed down with a flask of weak lemon drink.
  I laughed and reached for my flask of whiskey which had dollops of freeze-dried whipped cream floating in it like snow.
  In icy conditions, carry a flask of hot water in the car.
  I am so thirsty I guzzle several glasses of fruit juice, a litre of water and most of a flask of red bush tea before I even sit down.
  Hart said he had made a flask of coffee with six spoonfuls of coffee and eight of sugar which he had drunk from at least three times en route.
  The last time I did it, I was paddling a canoe, overtaking some innocent lake users, dressed as a pirate with half a flask of rum in my belly.
  Older ones can be given a flask of soup made with milk for extra nourishment during winter months.
  How is this different from carrying a small flask of medicinal whiskey?
  Things must have seemed to be going his way as he prepared his flask of coffee and headed to Wigan for work.
  For this reason a flask of whisky is included in every soldier's rations, which is only to be opened on permission of an officer and is inspected daily to determine if its owner has cheated.
2An extremely strong lead-lined container for transporting or storing radioactive nuclear waste.
（运输或储存放射性核废料的）防泄漏铅胆容器
Example sentencesExamples
- Large, who advises governments on nuclear hazards, pointed out that the tests which are designed to ensure the safety of nuclear transport flasks had no scientific basis.
- ‘Our worst fear is that these trains could be targeted by terrorists who could create the effect of a dirty bomb by blowing up the flasks, sending radioactive material into the atmosphere,’ he said.
- All used nuclear fuel is transported in heavily shielded purpose-built containers, known as flasks.
- It also said the nuclear flasks were tested to withstand temperatures of 800-deg C, though fires have been known to reach 1,500-deg C.
- Tests show that flasks containing the toxic compound, which is used to make fuel for nuclear power stations, would rupture within 175 seconds of the outbreak of a fire ‘in the most favourable case’.
- He also realised that painting the inside of the flask silver could minimise radiation.
- He says he cannot comment on the potential for a terrorist attack on a flask carrying nuclear material - but all transported nuclear fuel is heavily shielded.
- Plutonium arrived from the Hanford plant in the form of liquid plutonium nitrate carried in small stainless steel flasks packed in cylinders the size of truck wheels.
- According to the government's National Radiological Protection Board, which produced the report, the highest proportion of accidents in 2000 involved contamination associated with fuel flasks from nuclear stations.
- The DRS said stringent safety measures were in place and the forged steel containers, known as flasks, holding the waste, were 30 cm thick and weighed more than 50 tonnes.
3historical
short for powder flask
Example sentencesExamples
- Sitting on top of shellfish remains were 20 empty gunpowder flasks and loose flask caps.

Origin

Middle English (in the sense 'cask'): from medieval Latin flasca. From the mid 16th century the word denoted a case of horn, leather, or metal for carrying gunpowder. The sense 'glass container' (late 17th century) was influenced by Italian fiasco, from medieval Latin flasco. Compare with flagon.

fiasco from mid 19th century:
A fiasco is a ridiculous or humiliating failure. The word was borrowed from Italian in the 19th century. In that language it meant originally ‘a bottle’, but the phrase far fiasco, literally ‘make a bottle’, was used in the theatre to mean ‘fail in a performance’. In medieval English a flask (Middle English) was a cask or skin for holding liquor. The word came from medieval Latin flasca (along with LME flagon) but the 17th-century sense ‘glass container’ was influenced by Italian fiasco.

Rhymes

ask, bask, cask, Krasnoyarsk, mask, masque, task

Definition of flask in US English:

flask

nounflaskflæsk

1A container for liquids.
Example sentencesExamples
- He pushed a large flask filled with a sparkling, curious, blue liquid into her palm.
- The doctor handed Alex a flask that contained some kind of red liquid in it.
- One of the flasks holds an oily liquid approximating to coffee while the other holds almost-boiling water that might nearly brew a half-strength cup of extra-weak tea.
- With a few gurgling noises created from his throat, and, evidently, some mucus, he filled the glass to a quarter inch below the brim with the liquid in the flask.
- Barth put his head in his hands and stared down at the greenish liquid in his flask.
- Jonathan pulled out a small flask, and shook it a bit and heard liquid sloshing around.
- He looks at the cup, smiles, and adds a little liquid from a flask.
- Arven examined the box and saw at its end was a spout that was draining liquid into a flask.
- Three television sets surmounted a polished wood counter, with innumerable flasks and glasses dangling by their stems in racks above the rows of bottled liquors and beverages.
- He reached into his bag and pulled out three cups and a flask of some greenish blue liquid.
- The men pulled out food: dried fruit and cheese, bread and salted meats, wine and small flasks of water.
- With that, I opened up the flask with my mouth and began pouring cold liquid on my injured hand.
- The head nurse was standing over her with a silver flask of water in one hand and a damp white cloth in the other.
- To the back of Adian lay a bar, with flasks and wooden kegs that were tapped for liquid stacked in every available place.
- He opened the flask and allowed a small amount of the dark liquid to pour into his wine.
- He uncorked it, and poured the clear liquid into the flask.
- A spokesman told Reuters that two small flasks containing traces of the poison were discovered in a left luggage depot at the mainline railway station which serves the south of France.
- During the night their thirst became so bad that Folcher went down to the village to fill up their flasks at the fountain.
- She looked at Alistra, and unbuckled her safety belt, containing a water flask, some rations (in case they got lost), and her weapons.
- Next, he placed them in the bowl over the fire, and added some of the steaming liquid from the flask.
Synonyms
bottle, container, vessel
1. 1.1 A narrow-necked glass container, typically conical or spherical, used in a laboratory to hold reagents or samples.
  （尤指实验室里装试剂或标本的圆锥形或球形）细颈烧瓶
  Example sentencesExamples
  The scientists had their backs turned to the door and were inspecting a cupboard full of flasks and vials holding multi-colored liquids.
  The flask is then heated to a temperature above the boiling point of the liquid.
  They put methane, ammonia and carbon dioxide in a flask with some water, sparked some electricity through it, and after a week they got a brown sludge which contained amino acids.
  He then dissolved the glassy residue in dilute hydrochloric acid, boiled it, and left it to stand for several days in a corked flask.
  Each soil sample was mixed with 100 ml of gastric solution in volumetric glass flasks.
  After 8 h of re-aeration, the excised coleoptile tips were transferred to conical flasks with 50 ml aerated nutrient solution.
  She turned around on her stool with a bright smile on her face holding the flask and a test tube out to the confused young man.
  Levengood tested the metal fragment for the presence of hydrogen by putting a sample in a flask with a weak solution of acetic acid.
  In longer term experiments the aerated treatments were in 100 ml of solution in conical flasks.
  Immediately after weighing the roots were transferred to 250 ml round-bottom flasks, immersed in kerosene and sealed with plastic corks.
  Liquid culture was in 100 ml of the medium in 250 ml conical flasks.
  Working solutions had also been prepared in amber glass volumetric flasks by appropriate dilution just before use.
  The only time they are exposed to Bunsen burners and round-bottomed flasks is when they open text books to study.
  The GA solution was dried in a rotor evaporator and then incubated under vacuum overnight in a reagent flask.
  Those folks would have understood instantly what I was up to last week, stirring zinc powder in a flask with some dilute hydrochloric acid and washing it off.
  The cells could also be grown as suspension culture in conical flasks on a rotary shaker giving higher yield of cells.
  The tips remained in the same Thunberg tubes with 10 ml of solution for the first 8 h, and then were transferred to 50 ml in conical flasks.
  Beside him is a flask of smokey bubbling liquid amid a clutter of apparatus.
  Gas in the headspace of flasks was sampled with a tight syringe.
  Five minutes passed and the scientist held up two flasks filled with liquid: blue and green.
2. 1.2 A metal container for storing a small amount of liquor, typically to be carried in one's pocket.
  his silver flask of brandy
  Example sentencesExamples
  Near death, he injected himself with a liquid he kept in a tiny flask on his girdle.
  Cleo had wandered to the sofa and was pulling a flask from her small silver shoulder purse.
  At the summit, while taking celebratory sips of whiskey from my Kansas City Chiefs flask, we were approached by an athletic couple from Colorado.
  Summiting about noon, we found other climbers blissed-out in the sun, eating crackers and drinking from little silver flasks.
  There in the corner of the room (or relegated to an unloved table just outside the door) you'll find a wobbly pile of undersize crockery and two silver flasks.
  The silver flask touched her lips as reverently as the Christian chalice of gold.
  He pulled out the obligatory silver flask from the suitcase and took a long drink.
  Between the folds of the bottom towel in the linen closet, he retrieved a silver flask and took several greedy swallows.
  They palled up with booze and they kept their pal close at hand: a pint in the glove box, a flask on the hip, and most famously, the fifth in the desk.
  She walked to the oblong metal coffee-table and picked up a silver flask.
  I walked next to him for an hour or so and shared my brandy flask with him.
3. 1.3 A narrow-necked bulbous glass container, typically with a covering of wickerwork, for storing wine or oil.
  （尤指有柳条编织套的藏酒或油用的）细颈球形玻璃容器
  Example sentencesExamples
  Deran decided he really didn't want to know, and while the boy chattered on, he tried to creep away, intending to get a refill for his wine flask.
  She slid a wooden platter between the bars of the cage: two steaming lumps of goat's flesh, with a hunch of bread and a flask of wine.
  He kept the young man to dinner, and made himself very agreeable by the freedom and liveliness of his conversation, especially when warmed by a flask or two of Tuscan wine.
  The Tuscan origins of this fiaschetteria (where wine in straw flasks was sold) are honoured in a range of Chianina steak dishes and in a wine list which is strong on Chiantis and Brunellos.
  After that, the colonel explained that it would take more than two years for the young boy to go near another flask of wine without feeling nauseous.
  We find there some of the same costly foodstuffs (especially cherries and roast fowl) and wine flasks.
  In a broader sense, New Orleans is a ‘movable feast’, a flask of good wine that you carry with you wherever you are.
  He chose a spice wine flask while adjusting the military standard transponder.
  They also brought water, which went largely untouched while there was still wine in the flask.
  ‘Sky wine,’ answered he Captain as he replaced the flask under the folds of his tunic.
  The wine comes in deep-bottomed 46 cl flasks.
  But as she recorded their business accounts, the story of Moses flitted in and out of her head between the credits and debits, the flasks of beer and wine and jars of olive oil and measures of profit.
  One parcel, wrapped in cloth, contained bread, cheese, and a small flask of wine.
  When there's no more wine in the flask at my table my friends are happy to drink my water.
  Synonyms
  jug, vessel, container, bottle, carafe, decanter, mug, tankard, ewer, pitcher, crock, demijohn
4. 1.4 A vacuum flask.
  〈英〉保温瓶，热水瓶
  Example sentencesExamples
  Suddenly oblivious to my presence, she dropped her purse on my desk, pulled out a flask and a small jar of olives and made herself another strong one.
  Their contribution to the daytrip consisted of two apples and a flask of green tea.
  At 8.45 I shall make flasks of strong, black coffee and also have chilled mineral water on hand in case of dehydration.
  Former serviceman Ray's next port of call was to grab his flask and give the ‘shaken’ woman driver a cup of coffee to calm her.
  They held Britain to ransom with a flask of tea and some picnic chairs.
  This time the modern-day Lady workers were enjoying a string concert and a glass or two of wine (though I suspect some people smuggled in flasks of rosehip tea).
  As there is no time or facility at the other office for making endless cups I take a big flask with me.
  I took a flask of coffee and some bacon sandwiches, sat on a bench, and thought about life.
  Her mother must have been mad to allow it, but she did and even provided a flask of coffee, which didn't survive the rigid rear suspension.
  McPeabody unscrewed the lid and poured some of the flask's liquid contents into his coffee cup.
  So, I made a flask of tea and a knocked together breakfasty lunch to take out in the car.
  A flask of Greek coffee so sweet and thick you could cut it with a knife wakes you up and it's time to go back to work again.
  Good spot to stop for a cup of coffee providing you have taken your flask with you!
  For most of us that means a ramble across the North York Moors, or a bracing walk along the east coast before map reading our way back to the car for a flask of tea.
  He got up at six, packed his car with hot-water bottle, shovel, flask and blanket, and took three hours to drive 12 miles.
  Since that day Mary had carried a flask of tea with her, now noting with dismay that she had left it behind at the wall.
  I have also been taking with me a flask of soup and a blanket.
  I will ask my wife to prepare me some sandwiches, and make a flask of strong, hot tea to go with my tube of peppermints - that should do it.
  If you really need to drive, take a flask of coffee and a packed lunch.
  That is, if you take a nice flask of coffee and rum for the cold nights.
5. 1.5 The contents of a flask.
  瓶装物
  a flask of coffee
  一瓶咖啡。
  Example sentencesExamples
  I am so thirsty I guzzle several glasses of fruit juice, a litre of water and most of a flask of red bush tea before I even sit down.
  I raised the flask of holy water to his lips and let him drink.
  Accompanied by a flask of tea and his familiar pipe, Britain's most famous campaigner for socialism filled the Grand's stage without ever leaving his comfy seat.
  In icy conditions, carry a flask of hot water in the car.
  Older ones can be given a flask of soup made with milk for extra nourishment during winter months.
  Sitting alone on the stage with only his trademark flask of tea and his pipe for company, the old boy positively exudes optimism.
  Things must have seemed to be going his way as he prepared his flask of coffee and headed to Wigan for work.
  For this reason a flask of whisky is included in every soldier's rations, which is only to be opened on permission of an officer and is inspected daily to determine if its owner has cheated.
  We have even found a hot flask of coffee there, so the person certainly wasn't far away.
  Shall we go back to the days of bringing a flask of tea and a packed lunch?
  The last time I did it, I was paddling a canoe, overtaking some innocent lake users, dressed as a pirate with half a flask of rum in my belly.
  It's great to hear Rich and Stew's classic dialogue again, all best washed down with a flask of weak lemon drink.
  Wives brought sandwiches and flasks of tea for lunch and children played on the mounds of soil.
  Hart said he had made a flask of coffee with six spoonfuls of coffee and eight of sugar which he had drunk from at least three times en route.
  And behind any club at night you will find gangs of sophisticated and gorgeous thirty-somethings swigging guiltily from an illicit flask of vodka.
  I laughed and reached for my flask of whiskey which had dollops of freeze-dried whipped cream floating in it like snow.
  The German student cracked open a flask of schnapps and I chipped in my packed lunch.
  He would drive out each day, a flask of iced tea in one pocket, a bottle of cognac in the other - every inch the fearless veteran war photographer.
  Before meeting her, I might have listed these as follows: thermals, a woolly hat and a flask of whisky.
  How is this different from carrying a small flask of medicinal whiskey?
6. 1.6historical
  short for powder flask
  Example sentencesExamples
  Sitting on top of shellfish remains were 20 empty gunpowder flasks and loose flask caps.

Origin

Middle English (in the sense ‘cask’): from medieval Latin flasca. From the mid 16th century the word denoted a case of horn, leather, or metal for carrying gunpowder. The sense ‘glass container’ (late 17th century) was influenced by Italian fiasco, from medieval Latin flasco. Compare with flagon.

词汇	flask
释义	Definition of flask in English: flask noun flɑːskflæsk 1A container for liquids. Example sentencesExamples Arven examined the box and saw at its end was a spout that was draining liquid into a flask. Next, he placed them in the bowl over the fire, and added some of the steaming liquid from the flask. Three television sets surmounted a polished wood counter, with innumerable flasks and glasses dangling by their stems in racks above the rows of bottled liquors and beverages. Barth put his head in his hands and stared down at the greenish liquid in his flask. He reached into his bag and pulled out three cups and a flask of some greenish blue liquid. He opened the flask and allowed a small amount of the dark liquid to pour into his wine. One of the flasks holds an oily liquid approximating to coffee while the other holds almost-boiling water that might nearly brew a half-strength cup of extra-weak tea. The doctor handed Alex a flask that contained some kind of red liquid in it. A spokesman told Reuters that two small flasks containing traces of the poison were discovered in a left luggage depot at the mainline railway station which serves the south of France. The head nurse was standing over her with a silver flask of water in one hand and a damp white cloth in the other. Jonathan pulled out a small flask, and shook it a bit and heard liquid sloshing around. With that, I opened up the flask with my mouth and began pouring cold liquid on my injured hand. He looks at the cup, smiles, and adds a little liquid from a flask. With a few gurgling noises created from his throat, and, evidently, some mucus, he filled the glass to a quarter inch below the brim with the liquid in the flask. He pushed a large flask filled with a sparkling, curious, blue liquid into her palm. The men pulled out food: dried fruit and cheese, bread and salted meats, wine and small flasks of water. To the back of Adian lay a bar, with flasks and wooden kegs that were tapped for liquid stacked in every available place. He uncorked it, and poured the clear liquid into the flask. During the night their thirst became so bad that Folcher went down to the village to fill up their flasks at the fountain. She looked at Alistra, and unbuckled her safety belt, containing a water flask, some rations (in case they got lost), and her weapons. Synonyms bottle, container, vessel 1.1 A narrow-necked glass container, typically conical or spherical, used in a laboratory to hold reagents or samples. （尤指实验室里装试剂或标本的圆锥形或球形）细颈烧瓶 Example sentencesExamples Working solutions had also been prepared in amber glass volumetric flasks by appropriate dilution just before use. The cells could also be grown as suspension culture in conical flasks on a rotary shaker giving higher yield of cells. He then dissolved the glassy residue in dilute hydrochloric acid, boiled it, and left it to stand for several days in a corked flask. The GA solution was dried in a rotor evaporator and then incubated under vacuum overnight in a reagent flask. Gas in the headspace of flasks was sampled with a tight syringe. Those folks would have understood instantly what I was up to last week, stirring zinc powder in a flask with some dilute hydrochloric acid and washing it off. Five minutes passed and the scientist held up two flasks filled with liquid: blue and green. The only time they are exposed to Bunsen burners and round-bottomed flasks is when they open text books to study. Liquid culture was in 100 ml of the medium in 250 ml conical flasks. The tips remained in the same Thunberg tubes with 10 ml of solution for the first 8 h, and then were transferred to 50 ml in conical flasks. Beside him is a flask of smokey bubbling liquid amid a clutter of apparatus. In longer term experiments the aerated treatments were in 100 ml of solution in conical flasks. The flask is then heated to a temperature above the boiling point of the liquid. The scientists had their backs turned to the door and were inspecting a cupboard full of flasks and vials holding multi-colored liquids. After 8 h of re-aeration, the excised coleoptile tips were transferred to conical flasks with 50 ml aerated nutrient solution. Levengood tested the metal fragment for the presence of hydrogen by putting a sample in a flask with a weak solution of acetic acid. They put methane, ammonia and carbon dioxide in a flask with some water, sparked some electricity through it, and after a week they got a brown sludge which contained amino acids. Each soil sample was mixed with 100 ml of gastric solution in volumetric glass flasks. She turned around on her stool with a bright smile on her face holding the flask and a test tube out to the confused young man. Immediately after weighing the roots were transferred to 250 ml round-bottom flasks, immersed in kerosene and sealed with plastic corks. 1.2 A narrow-necked bulbous glass container, typically with a covering of wickerwork, for storing wine or oil. （尤指有柳条编织套的藏酒或油用的）细颈球形玻璃容器 Example sentencesExamples In a broader sense, New Orleans is a ‘movable feast’, a flask of good wine that you carry with you wherever you are. After that, the colonel explained that it would take more than two years for the young boy to go near another flask of wine without feeling nauseous. She slid a wooden platter between the bars of the cage: two steaming lumps of goat's flesh, with a hunch of bread and a flask of wine. The wine comes in deep-bottomed 46 cl flasks. They also brought water, which went largely untouched while there was still wine in the flask. The Tuscan origins of this fiaschetteria (where wine in straw flasks was sold) are honoured in a range of Chianina steak dishes and in a wine list which is strong on Chiantis and Brunellos. When there's no more wine in the flask at my table my friends are happy to drink my water. He chose a spice wine flask while adjusting the military standard transponder. But as she recorded their business accounts, the story of Moses flitted in and out of her head between the credits and debits, the flasks of beer and wine and jars of olive oil and measures of profit. He kept the young man to dinner, and made himself very agreeable by the freedom and liveliness of his conversation, especially when warmed by a flask or two of Tuscan wine. We find there some of the same costly foodstuffs (especially cherries and roast fowl) and wine flasks. ‘Sky wine,’ answered he Captain as he replaced the flask under the folds of his tunic. One parcel, wrapped in cloth, contained bread, cheese, and a small flask of wine. Deran decided he really didn't want to know, and while the boy chattered on, he tried to creep away, intending to get a refill for his wine flask. Synonyms jug, vessel, container, bottle, carafe, decanter, mug, tankard, ewer, pitcher, crock, demijohn 1.3British A vacuum flask. 〈英〉保温瓶，热水瓶 Example sentencesExamples Her mother must have been mad to allow it, but she did and even provided a flask of coffee, which didn't survive the rigid rear suspension. That is, if you take a nice flask of coffee and rum for the cold nights. Former serviceman Ray's next port of call was to grab his flask and give the ‘shaken’ woman driver a cup of coffee to calm her. As there is no time or facility at the other office for making endless cups I take a big flask with me. Since that day Mary had carried a flask of tea with her, now noting with dismay that she had left it behind at the wall. I will ask my wife to prepare me some sandwiches, and make a flask of strong, hot tea to go with my tube of peppermints - that should do it. I took a flask of coffee and some bacon sandwiches, sat on a bench, and thought about life. McPeabody unscrewed the lid and poured some of the flask's liquid contents into his coffee cup. He got up at six, packed his car with hot-water bottle, shovel, flask and blanket, and took three hours to drive 12 miles. So, I made a flask of tea and a knocked together breakfasty lunch to take out in the car. They held Britain to ransom with a flask of tea and some picnic chairs. This time the modern-day Lady workers were enjoying a string concert and a glass or two of wine (though I suspect some people smuggled in flasks of rosehip tea). Their contribution to the daytrip consisted of two apples and a flask of green tea. If you really need to drive, take a flask of coffee and a packed lunch. Suddenly oblivious to my presence, she dropped her purse on my desk, pulled out a flask and a small jar of olives and made herself another strong one. I have also been taking with me a flask of soup and a blanket. At 8.45 I shall make flasks of strong, black coffee and also have chilled mineral water on hand in case of dehydration. A flask of Greek coffee so sweet and thick you could cut it with a knife wakes you up and it's time to go back to work again. For most of us that means a ramble across the North York Moors, or a bracing walk along the east coast before map reading our way back to the car for a flask of tea. Good spot to stop for a cup of coffee providing you have taken your flask with you! 1.4 A hip flask. 可放在身后裤袋里的酒瓶 Example sentencesExamples Between the folds of the bottom towel in the linen closet, he retrieved a silver flask and took several greedy swallows. At the summit, while taking celebratory sips of whiskey from my Kansas City Chiefs flask, we were approached by an athletic couple from Colorado. She walked to the oblong metal coffee-table and picked up a silver flask. There in the corner of the room (or relegated to an unloved table just outside the door) you'll find a wobbly pile of undersize crockery and two silver flasks. They palled up with booze and they kept their pal close at hand: a pint in the glove box, a flask on the hip, and most famously, the fifth in the desk. I walked next to him for an hour or so and shared my brandy flask with him. He pulled out the obligatory silver flask from the suitcase and took a long drink. Near death, he injected himself with a liquid he kept in a tiny flask on his girdle. Cleo had wandered to the sofa and was pulling a flask from her small silver shoulder purse. The silver flask touched her lips as reverently as the Christian chalice of gold. Summiting about noon, we found other climbers blissed-out in the sun, eating crackers and drinking from little silver flasks. 1.5 The contents of a flask. 瓶装物 a flask of coffee 一瓶咖啡。 Example sentencesExamples He would drive out each day, a flask of iced tea in one pocket, a bottle of cognac in the other - every inch the fearless veteran war photographer. Shall we go back to the days of bringing a flask of tea and a packed lunch? The German student cracked open a flask of schnapps and I chipped in my packed lunch. And behind any club at night you will find gangs of sophisticated and gorgeous thirty-somethings swigging guiltily from an illicit flask of vodka. Accompanied by a flask of tea and his familiar pipe, Britain's most famous campaigner for socialism filled the Grand's stage without ever leaving his comfy seat. Sitting alone on the stage with only his trademark flask of tea and his pipe for company, the old boy positively exudes optimism. I raised the flask of holy water to his lips and let him drink. Wives brought sandwiches and flasks of tea for lunch and children played on the mounds of soil. Before meeting her, I might have listed these as follows: thermals, a woolly hat and a flask of whisky. We have even found a hot flask of coffee there, so the person certainly wasn't far away. It's great to hear Rich and Stew's classic dialogue again, all best washed down with a flask of weak lemon drink. I laughed and reached for my flask of whiskey which had dollops of freeze-dried whipped cream floating in it like snow. In icy conditions, carry a flask of hot water in the car. I am so thirsty I guzzle several glasses of fruit juice, a litre of water and most of a flask of red bush tea before I even sit down. Hart said he had made a flask of coffee with six spoonfuls of coffee and eight of sugar which he had drunk from at least three times en route. The last time I did it, I was paddling a canoe, overtaking some innocent lake users, dressed as a pirate with half a flask of rum in my belly. Older ones can be given a flask of soup made with milk for extra nourishment during winter months. How is this different from carrying a small flask of medicinal whiskey? Things must have seemed to be going his way as he prepared his flask of coffee and headed to Wigan for work. For this reason a flask of whisky is included in every soldier's rations, which is only to be opened on permission of an officer and is inspected daily to determine if its owner has cheated. 2An extremely strong lead-lined container for transporting or storing radioactive nuclear waste. （运输或储存放射性核废料的）防泄漏铅胆容器 Example sentencesExamples Large, who advises governments on nuclear hazards, pointed out that the tests which are designed to ensure the safety of nuclear transport flasks had no scientific basis. ‘Our worst fear is that these trains could be targeted by terrorists who could create the effect of a dirty bomb by blowing up the flasks, sending radioactive material into the atmosphere,’ he said. All used nuclear fuel is transported in heavily shielded purpose-built containers, known as flasks. It also said the nuclear flasks were tested to withstand temperatures of 800-deg C, though fires have been known to reach 1,500-deg C. Tests show that flasks containing the toxic compound, which is used to make fuel for nuclear power stations, would rupture within 175 seconds of the outbreak of a fire ‘in the most favourable case’. He also realised that painting the inside of the flask silver could minimise radiation. He says he cannot comment on the potential for a terrorist attack on a flask carrying nuclear material - but all transported nuclear fuel is heavily shielded. Plutonium arrived from the Hanford plant in the form of liquid plutonium nitrate carried in small stainless steel flasks packed in cylinders the size of truck wheels. According to the government's National Radiological Protection Board, which produced the report, the highest proportion of accidents in 2000 involved contamination associated with fuel flasks from nuclear stations. The DRS said stringent safety measures were in place and the forged steel containers, known as flasks, holding the waste, were 30 cm thick and weighed more than 50 tonnes. 3historical short for powder flask Example sentencesExamples Sitting on top of shellfish remains were 20 empty gunpowder flasks and loose flask caps. Origin Middle English (in the sense 'cask'): from medieval Latin flasca. From the mid 16th century the word denoted a case of horn, leather, or metal for carrying gunpowder. The sense 'glass container' (late 17th century) was influenced by Italian fiasco, from medieval Latin flasco. Compare with flagon. fiasco from mid 19th century: A fiasco is a ridiculous or humiliating failure. The word was borrowed from Italian in the 19th century. In that language it meant originally ‘a bottle’, but the phrase far fiasco, literally ‘make a bottle’, was used in the theatre to mean ‘fail in a performance’. In medieval English a flask (Middle English) was a cask or skin for holding liquor. The word came from medieval Latin flasca (along with LME flagon) but the 17th-century sense ‘glass container’ was influenced by Italian fiasco. Rhymes ask, bask, cask, Krasnoyarsk, mask, masque, task Definition of flask in US English: flask nounflaskflæsk 1A container for liquids. Example sentencesExamples He pushed a large flask filled with a sparkling, curious, blue liquid into her palm. The doctor handed Alex a flask that contained some kind of red liquid in it. One of the flasks holds an oily liquid approximating to coffee while the other holds almost-boiling water that might nearly brew a half-strength cup of extra-weak tea. With a few gurgling noises created from his throat, and, evidently, some mucus, he filled the glass to a quarter inch below the brim with the liquid in the flask. Barth put his head in his hands and stared down at the greenish liquid in his flask. Jonathan pulled out a small flask, and shook it a bit and heard liquid sloshing around. He looks at the cup, smiles, and adds a little liquid from a flask. Arven examined the box and saw at its end was a spout that was draining liquid into a flask. Three television sets surmounted a polished wood counter, with innumerable flasks and glasses dangling by their stems in racks above the rows of bottled liquors and beverages. He reached into his bag and pulled out three cups and a flask of some greenish blue liquid. The men pulled out food: dried fruit and cheese, bread and salted meats, wine and small flasks of water. With that, I opened up the flask with my mouth and began pouring cold liquid on my injured hand. The head nurse was standing over her with a silver flask of water in one hand and a damp white cloth in the other. To the back of Adian lay a bar, with flasks and wooden kegs that were tapped for liquid stacked in every available place. He opened the flask and allowed a small amount of the dark liquid to pour into his wine. He uncorked it, and poured the clear liquid into the flask. A spokesman told Reuters that two small flasks containing traces of the poison were discovered in a left luggage depot at the mainline railway station which serves the south of France. During the night their thirst became so bad that Folcher went down to the village to fill up their flasks at the fountain. She looked at Alistra, and unbuckled her safety belt, containing a water flask, some rations (in case they got lost), and her weapons. Next, he placed them in the bowl over the fire, and added some of the steaming liquid from the flask. Synonyms bottle, container, vessel 1.1 A narrow-necked glass container, typically conical or spherical, used in a laboratory to hold reagents or samples. （尤指实验室里装试剂或标本的圆锥形或球形）细颈烧瓶 Example sentencesExamples The scientists had their backs turned to the door and were inspecting a cupboard full of flasks and vials holding multi-colored liquids. The flask is then heated to a temperature above the boiling point of the liquid. They put methane, ammonia and carbon dioxide in a flask with some water, sparked some electricity through it, and after a week they got a brown sludge which contained amino acids. He then dissolved the glassy residue in dilute hydrochloric acid, boiled it, and left it to stand for several days in a corked flask. Each soil sample was mixed with 100 ml of gastric solution in volumetric glass flasks. After 8 h of re-aeration, the excised coleoptile tips were transferred to conical flasks with 50 ml aerated nutrient solution. She turned around on her stool with a bright smile on her face holding the flask and a test tube out to the confused young man. Levengood tested the metal fragment for the presence of hydrogen by putting a sample in a flask with a weak solution of acetic acid. In longer term experiments the aerated treatments were in 100 ml of solution in conical flasks. Immediately after weighing the roots were transferred to 250 ml round-bottom flasks, immersed in kerosene and sealed with plastic corks. Liquid culture was in 100 ml of the medium in 250 ml conical flasks. Working solutions had also been prepared in amber glass volumetric flasks by appropriate dilution just before use. The only time they are exposed to Bunsen burners and round-bottomed flasks is when they open text books to study. The GA solution was dried in a rotor evaporator and then incubated under vacuum overnight in a reagent flask. Those folks would have understood instantly what I was up to last week, stirring zinc powder in a flask with some dilute hydrochloric acid and washing it off. The cells could also be grown as suspension culture in conical flasks on a rotary shaker giving higher yield of cells. The tips remained in the same Thunberg tubes with 10 ml of solution for the first 8 h, and then were transferred to 50 ml in conical flasks. Beside him is a flask of smokey bubbling liquid amid a clutter of apparatus. Gas in the headspace of flasks was sampled with a tight syringe. Five minutes passed and the scientist held up two flasks filled with liquid: blue and green. 1.2 A metal container for storing a small amount of liquor, typically to be carried in one's pocket. his silver flask of brandy Example sentencesExamples Near death, he injected himself with a liquid he kept in a tiny flask on his girdle. Cleo had wandered to the sofa and was pulling a flask from her small silver shoulder purse. At the summit, while taking celebratory sips of whiskey from my Kansas City Chiefs flask, we were approached by an athletic couple from Colorado. Summiting about noon, we found other climbers blissed-out in the sun, eating crackers and drinking from little silver flasks. There in the corner of the room (or relegated to an unloved table just outside the door) you'll find a wobbly pile of undersize crockery and two silver flasks. The silver flask touched her lips as reverently as the Christian chalice of gold. He pulled out the obligatory silver flask from the suitcase and took a long drink. Between the folds of the bottom towel in the linen closet, he retrieved a silver flask and took several greedy swallows. They palled up with booze and they kept their pal close at hand: a pint in the glove box, a flask on the hip, and most famously, the fifth in the desk. She walked to the oblong metal coffee-table and picked up a silver flask. I walked next to him for an hour or so and shared my brandy flask with him. 1.3 A narrow-necked bulbous glass container, typically with a covering of wickerwork, for storing wine or oil. （尤指有柳条编织套的藏酒或油用的）细颈球形玻璃容器 Example sentencesExamples Deran decided he really didn't want to know, and while the boy chattered on, he tried to creep away, intending to get a refill for his wine flask. She slid a wooden platter between the bars of the cage: two steaming lumps of goat's flesh, with a hunch of bread and a flask of wine. He kept the young man to dinner, and made himself very agreeable by the freedom and liveliness of his conversation, especially when warmed by a flask or two of Tuscan wine. The Tuscan origins of this fiaschetteria (where wine in straw flasks was sold) are honoured in a range of Chianina steak dishes and in a wine list which is strong on Chiantis and Brunellos. After that, the colonel explained that it would take more than two years for the young boy to go near another flask of wine without feeling nauseous. We find there some of the same costly foodstuffs (especially cherries and roast fowl) and wine flasks. In a broader sense, New Orleans is a ‘movable feast’, a flask of good wine that you carry with you wherever you are. He chose a spice wine flask while adjusting the military standard transponder. They also brought water, which went largely untouched while there was still wine in the flask. ‘Sky wine,’ answered he Captain as he replaced the flask under the folds of his tunic. The wine comes in deep-bottomed 46 cl flasks. But as she recorded their business accounts, the story of Moses flitted in and out of her head between the credits and debits, the flasks of beer and wine and jars of olive oil and measures of profit. One parcel, wrapped in cloth, contained bread, cheese, and a small flask of wine. When there's no more wine in the flask at my table my friends are happy to drink my water. Synonyms jug, vessel, container, bottle, carafe, decanter, mug, tankard, ewer, pitcher, crock, demijohn 1.4 A vacuum flask. 〈英〉保温瓶，热水瓶 Example sentencesExamples Suddenly oblivious to my presence, she dropped her purse on my desk, pulled out a flask and a small jar of olives and made herself another strong one. Their contribution to the daytrip consisted of two apples and a flask of green tea. At 8.45 I shall make flasks of strong, black coffee and also have chilled mineral water on hand in case of dehydration. Former serviceman Ray's next port of call was to grab his flask and give the ‘shaken’ woman driver a cup of coffee to calm her. They held Britain to ransom with a flask of tea and some picnic chairs. This time the modern-day Lady workers were enjoying a string concert and a glass or two of wine (though I suspect some people smuggled in flasks of rosehip tea). As there is no time or facility at the other office for making endless cups I take a big flask with me. I took a flask of coffee and some bacon sandwiches, sat on a bench, and thought about life. Her mother must have been mad to allow it, but she did and even provided a flask of coffee, which didn't survive the rigid rear suspension. McPeabody unscrewed the lid and poured some of the flask's liquid contents into his coffee cup. So, I made a flask of tea and a knocked together breakfasty lunch to take out in the car. A flask of Greek coffee so sweet and thick you could cut it with a knife wakes you up and it's time to go back to work again. Good spot to stop for a cup of coffee providing you have taken your flask with you! For most of us that means a ramble across the North York Moors, or a bracing walk along the east coast before map reading our way back to the car for a flask of tea. He got up at six, packed his car with hot-water bottle, shovel, flask and blanket, and took three hours to drive 12 miles. Since that day Mary had carried a flask of tea with her, now noting with dismay that she had left it behind at the wall. I have also been taking with me a flask of soup and a blanket. I will ask my wife to prepare me some sandwiches, and make a flask of strong, hot tea to go with my tube of peppermints - that should do it. If you really need to drive, take a flask of coffee and a packed lunch. That is, if you take a nice flask of coffee and rum for the cold nights. 1.5 The contents of a flask. 瓶装物 a flask of coffee 一瓶咖啡。 Example sentencesExamples I am so thirsty I guzzle several glasses of fruit juice, a litre of water and most of a flask of red bush tea before I even sit down. I raised the flask of holy water to his lips and let him drink. Accompanied by a flask of tea and his familiar pipe, Britain's most famous campaigner for socialism filled the Grand's stage without ever leaving his comfy seat. In icy conditions, carry a flask of hot water in the car. Older ones can be given a flask of soup made with milk for extra nourishment during winter months. Sitting alone on the stage with only his trademark flask of tea and his pipe for company, the old boy positively exudes optimism. Things must have seemed to be going his way as he prepared his flask of coffee and headed to Wigan for work. For this reason a flask of whisky is included in every soldier's rations, which is only to be opened on permission of an officer and is inspected daily to determine if its owner has cheated. We have even found a hot flask of coffee there, so the person certainly wasn't far away. Shall we go back to the days of bringing a flask of tea and a packed lunch? The last time I did it, I was paddling a canoe, overtaking some innocent lake users, dressed as a pirate with half a flask of rum in my belly. It's great to hear Rich and Stew's classic dialogue again, all best washed down with a flask of weak lemon drink. Wives brought sandwiches and flasks of tea for lunch and children played on the mounds of soil. Hart said he had made a flask of coffee with six spoonfuls of coffee and eight of sugar which he had drunk from at least three times en route. And behind any club at night you will find gangs of sophisticated and gorgeous thirty-somethings swigging guiltily from an illicit flask of vodka. I laughed and reached for my flask of whiskey which had dollops of freeze-dried whipped cream floating in it like snow. The German student cracked open a flask of schnapps and I chipped in my packed lunch. He would drive out each day, a flask of iced tea in one pocket, a bottle of cognac in the other - every inch the fearless veteran war photographer. Before meeting her, I might have listed these as follows: thermals, a woolly hat and a flask of whisky. How is this different from carrying a small flask of medicinal whiskey? 1.6historical short for powder flask Example sentencesExamples Sitting on top of shellfish remains were 20 empty gunpowder flasks and loose flask caps. Origin Middle English (in the sense ‘cask’): from medieval Latin flasca. From the mid 16th century the word denoted a case of horn, leather, or metal for carrying gunpowder. The sense ‘glass container’ (late 17th century) was influenced by Italian fiasco, from medieval Latin flasco. Compare with flagon.
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