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Bath Definition–noun | 1. | a washing or immersion of something, esp. the body, in water, steam, etc., as for cleansing or medical treatment: I take a bath every day. Give the dog a bath. | | 2. | a quantity of water or other liquid used for this purpose: running a bath. | | 3. | a container for water or other cleansing liquid, as a bathtub. | | 4. | a room equipped for bathing; bathroom: The house has two baths. | | 5. | a building containing rooms or apartments with equipme
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nt for bathing; bathhouse. | | 6. | Often, baths. one of the elaborate bathing establishments of the ancients: the baths of Caracalla. | | 7. | Usually, baths. a town or resort visited for medical treatment by bathing or the like; spa. | | 8. | a preparation, as an acid solution, in which something is immersed. | | 9. | the container for such a preparation. | | 10. | a device for controlling the temperature of something by the use of a surrounding medium, as sand, water, oil, etc. | | 11. | Metallurgy. | a. | the depressed hearth of a steelmaking furnace. | | b. | the molten metal being made into steel in a steelmaking furnace. | | | 12. | the state of being covered by a liquid, as perspiration: in a bath of sweat. | –verb (used with object), verb (used without object) | 13. | to wash or soak in a bath. | —Idiom | 14. | take a bath, Informal. to suffer a large financial loss: Many investors are taking a bath on their bond investments. | |
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