1. the act of soaking or cleansing the body, as in water or steam.
2. the water used for cleansing the body.
3. A bathtub.
4. A bathroom.
5. A building equipped for bathing.
6. A resort providing therapeutic baths; a spa. often used in the plural.
7. A liquid in which something is dipped or soaked for processing: immersed the metal in an acid bath.
8. A container holding such a liquid: emptied the bath of dye.
9. A medium, such as oil or sand, that controls the temperature of objects placed in it.
10. A container holding such a medium.
11. an ancient hebrew unit of liquid measure, equal to about 38 liters (10 U.S. gallons).

1. A tub or pool which is used for bathing: bathtub.
2. A room or area where bathing occurs: bathroom.
3. the act of bathing.
4. A substance or preparation into which something is immersed.
5. to wash a person or animal in a bath
6. an ancient hebrew unit of liquid volume measure, equal to an ephah and to one-tenth of a homer, and approximately equal to 22 litres.

1. the act of exposing the body, or part of the body, for purposes of cleanliness, comfort, health, etc., to water, vapor, hot air, or the like.
2. water or other liquid for bathing.
3. A receptacle or place where persons may immerse or wash their bodies in water.
4. A building containing an apartment or a series of apartments arranged for bathing.
5. A medium, as heated sand, ashes, steam, hot air, through which heat is applied to a body.
6. A solution in which plates or prints are immersed; also, the receptacle holding the solution.
7. A hebrew measure containing the tenth of a homer, or five gallons and three pints, as a measure for liquids; and two pecks and five quarts, as a dry measure.
8. A city in the west of england, resorted to for its hot springs, which has given its name to various objects.

1. to put into a bath; wash in a bath.
2. A washing of the body in, or an exposure of it to the action of, water or other fluid agent, for cleansing, refreshment, medical treatment, etc.: as, to take a bath; to administer a bath to a patient.
3. A provision or arrangement for bathing: as, to prepare a bath; a hot or cold bath; a vapor-bath; an electric bath.
4. A vessel for holding water in which to plunge, wash, or bathe the body.
5. more generally, an apartment or apparatus by means of which the body, or a part of it, may be bathed in any medium differing in nature or temperature from its natural medium.
6. an edifice containing apartments fitted up for bathing; a bath-house; particularly, in the plural, one of the elaborate bathing establishments of the ancients, as the baths of Caracalla at rome. see thermœ.
7. in science and the arts, any vessel containing a liquid for treating any object by immersion.
8. an arrangement or preparation for immersing anything, as the silver-bath in photography.
9. in chem., an apparatus for modifying and regulating the heat in various chemical processes, by interposing a quantity of sand, water, or other substance between the fire and the vessel intended to be heated.
10. A hebrew liquid measure = 72 logs = 6 hins = cor, and corresponding to the dry measure the ephah = 72 logs = 18 cabs = 3 saths = cor.
11. in electricity, the solution in which electrochemical action takes place, as in electroplating, electrotyping, electrometallurgy, etc.
12. same as bath-flower.

1. you soak and wash your body in a bathtub
2. a town in southwestern england on the river Avon; famous for its hot springs and roman remains
3. an ancient hebrew liquid measure equal to about 10 gallons
4. a relatively large open container that you fill with water and use to wash the body
5. clean one's body by immersion into water
6. a room (as in a residence) containing a bathtub or shower and usually a washbasin and toilet
7. a vessel containing liquid in which something is immersed (as to process it or to maintain it at a constant temperature or to lubricate it)