noun
beaker
BEE-kuh
noun
1
A flat-bottomed, straight-sided glass container with a small pouring lip, used to hold and measure liquids in a lab.
"She poured the acid carefully into a glass beaker."
"The beaker on the shelf was marked in fifty-millilitre increments."
2
A cup or mug without a handle, used for drinking.
"He drank his coffee from a plastic beaker at the campsite."
How to Use Beaker
Learner’s notesIn plain EnglishA cup-shaped container — either a lab vessel or a handleless drinking cup.
Common pairings
a glass beaker
a beaker of water
Word Forms
beakers plural
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Etymology
From Old Norse bikarr ("cup"), itself likely traceable back to a Late Latin word for a wine jug. It shares a root with "pitcher."