Noun: flask
| Singular | flask |
| Plural | flasks |
Sample Sentences
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Over the years, the railway has been the safest way to move hazardous chemicals, radioactive waste, fuel for Royal Navy nuclear submarines and imported fuel for reprocessing, as well as flasks containing fuel rods to and from British power stations. [2023 December 27, Ben Jones, “Inside Sellafield... by rail”, in RAIL, number 999, page 21:]
Nouns inflected like flask
soldier's woundwort,
Nicosian,
whopper,
greypate,
tactile sign language,
chronotrope,
Rosie Lee,
dissentient,
photoinactivator,
sulphonediimine,
coastal waterfall,
residuary devise,
bituminization,
nitrosonaphthol,
smṛiti,
geosphere,
backscreen,
mensuralist,
flocculate,
flocculant, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
1. From Middle English flask, flaske (“case, cask, keg”), from Old English flasce, flaxe (“bottle, flask”) and Medieval Latin flascō (“bottle”); from Frankish *flaskā; both from Proto-Germanic *flaskǭ (“braid-covered bottle, wicker-enclosed jug”), from Proto-Indo-European *ploḱ-skō (“flat”), or from Proto-Indo-European *pleḱ- (“to weave”). Doublet of fiasco, flacon, and flagon.
2. Related to Dutch fles; also German Low German Flaske, Fless, German Flasche, Danish flaske; also Lithuanian plókščias, Czech ploský, Albanian flashkët.
3. The sense “laboratory glassware” is from Italian fiasco, and the sense “container for holding a casting mold” is from Middle French flasque (“powder flask”), itself from Old Spanish flasco, frasco, both from Late Latin above. See: Middle English Nouns '
flask', Old English Nouns '
flasce', Dutch Nouns '
fles', German Nouns '
Flasche', Danish Nouns '
flaske', Italian Nouns '
fiasco'.
Verbs referencing "flask"
German Nouns
Flasche, Spanish Nouns
frasco, Danish Nouns
flaske, English Nouns
flasket, Russian Nouns
фляжка, Russian Nouns
фляга.