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Definition: Thermos |
ThermosNoun1. Vacuum flask that preserves temperature of hot or cold drinks. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "thermos" was first used: 1907 as a registered trademark. (references) |
Synonyms: ThermosSynonyms: thermos bottle (n), thermos flask (n). (additional references) |
Crosswords: Thermos |
| English words defined with "thermos": thermos bottle, thermos flask. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "thermos": I'sothermal Lines. (references) |
| Non-English Usage: "Thermos" is also a word in the following language with English translations in parentheses. French (thermos, vacuum flask). |
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Screenplays | I'm picking out a thermos for you. (The Jerk; writing credit: Carl Reiner, written by Steve Martin and Carl Gottlieb.) Not an ordinary thermos for you. (The Jerk; writing credit: Carl Reiner, written by Steve Martin and Carl Gottlieb.) I'm picking out a Thermos for you! (The Jerk; writing credit: Steve Martin; Carl Gottlieb) | |
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| "Thermos" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Thermos" is used about 74 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 100% | 74 | 38,813 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expressions using "thermos": thermos bottle ♦ thermos flask. Additional references. | |
| Hyphenated Usage | |
Beginning with "thermos": thermos-flask. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Language | Translations for "thermos"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Albanian | termos (vacuum flask). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Arabic | كظيمة الترمس, وعاء حافظ للحرارة أو البرودة, الترموس. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Blackfoot | aayí'sipisaan. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | термос (vacuum flask). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Chinese | 熱水" (thermos bottle, vacuum bottle), 暖水" (thermos flask or bottle), 暖壺 (thermos bottle). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Czech | termoska (flask, vacuum flask). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Danish | termoflaske (Dewar flask, thermos bottle, thermos flask, vaccum flask, vacuum bottle, vacuum lask). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch | thermosfles (Dewar flask, thermos bottle, thermos flask, vaccum flask, vacuum bottle, vacuum lask). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Esperanto | varmbotelo (thermos flask). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Farsi | فلاسک , محفظه یاظرف عهایق حرارت , قمقمه (Canteen), ترمس . (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Finnish | termospullo (Dewar flask, vaccum flask, vacuum flask), termos. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | thermos (thermos flask), bouteillon. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | thermosflasche (flask, thermos flask, thermosbottle, thermosflask, vacuum bottle, vacuum flask, vacuum lask). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | θερμόσ (cordial, fervent, heated, hot, thermal, warm). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hebrew | תרמוס (vacuum flask), שמרחום. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | termosz (thermos bottle, vacuum bottle, vacuum flask). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Indonesian | termos. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | termos (thermos flask, vacuum bottle, vacuum lask). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Kanji | "法" (thermos flask, vacuum flask). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Katakana | まほうび" (thermos flask, vacuum flask). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Manx | chermys. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Norwegian | termosflaske (thermos bottle, thermos flask). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | ermosthay garrafa térmica (Dewar flask, thermos bottle, thermos flask, vaccum flask, vacuum bottle, vacuum flask, vacuum lask). (various references) termos (flask). (various references) термос (vacuum flask). (various references) termos (vacuum flask). (various references) termos (thermos bottle, thermos flask, vacuum bottle, vacuum lask), termo (cistern, Dewar flask, flask, therm, thermosbottle, thermosflask, vaccum flask, vacuum bottle, vacuum flask). (various references) termosflaska (dewar vessel, flask, vacuum flask). (various references) termos (thermos bottle, thermos flask, vacuum bottle, vacuum flask). (various references) termos (r). (various references) термос. (various references) thermos flask, cái phích. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Greek | 700 BCE-300 CE | thermos. (various references) |
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Derivations | |
Words beginning with "thermos": thermoscope, thermoscopes, thermoses, thermoset, thermosets, thermosetting, thermosphere, thermospheres, thermospheric, thermostabilities, thermostability, thermostable, thermostat, thermostated, thermostatic, thermostatically, thermostating, thermostats, thermostatted, thermostatting. (additional references) | |
Words containing "thermos": farthermost, furthermost, hithermost, nethermost. (additional references) | |
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"Thermos" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: phormos, termos, Thamos, themuns, theorbo, theorbos, therm, Thermie, thermit, thermoc, thermor, therms, Thermus, therom, theros, thremos. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "thermos" (pronounced ther"mus) |
| 4 | -er" m u s | dermis, epidermis. |
| 3 | -m u s | animus, anonymous, autonomous, blasphemous, enormous, famous, grimace, hippopotamus, humus, ignoramus, infamous, isthmus, litmus, magnanimous, mandamus, monogamous, polygamous, posthumous, premise, primus, promise, pumice, ramus, Shamas, shamus, synonymous, thalamus, unanimous, venomous. |
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: mothers, smother. | |
| Words within the letters "e-h-m-o-r-s-t" | |
-1 letter: homers, horste, metros, mosher, mother, others, reshot, therms, throes. | |
-2 letters: ethos, herms, heros, hoers, homer, homes, horse, horst, meths, metro, mores, morse, morts, moste, motes, moths, omers, other, roset, rotes, shoer, shore, short, shote, smote, store, storm, terms, therm, those, throe, tomes, tores, torse. | |
-3 letters: eros, erst, eths, hems, herm, hero, hers, hest. | |
| Words containing the letters "e-h-m-o-r-s-t" | |
+1 letter: isotherm, mouthers, resmooth, smoother, smothers, smothery, teraohms, theorems. | |
+2 letters: atheromas, chromates, chromites, comethers, heartsome, homeports, horsemint, isotherms, metaphors, ohmmeters, outhomers, resmooths, smoothers, smothered, stomacher, thermions, thermoses, thermoset, threesome, trichomes, vermouths. | |
+3 letters: atmosphere, bothersome, earthworms, ectomorphs, ectotherms, endotherms, godmothers, hammertoes, heartworms, hectograms, heteronyms, hithermost, horsemints, hypsometer, isothermal, mentorship, mesothorax, motherless, nethermost, outmarches, resmoothed, rheometers, rhytidomes, smoothbore, smothering, stenotherm, stepmother, stomachers, thermistor, thermosets, thermostat, thimerosal, threesomes, thromboses. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)54 68 65 72 6D 6F 73 |
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Morse Code (1836) (references)- .... . .-. -- --- ... |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01010100 01101000 01100101 01110010 01101101 01101111 01110011 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)T h e r m o s |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0054 0068 0065 0072 006D 006F 0073 |
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)54747184798185 |
| 1. Definition 2. Synonyms 3. Crosswords 4. Usage: Modern | 5. Usage: Commercial 6. Images: Slideshow 7. Usage Frequency 8. Expressions | 9. Expressions: Internet 10. Translations: Modern 11. Translations: Ancient 12. Derivations | 13. Rhymes 14. Anagrams 15. Orthography 16. Bibliography |
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