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Definition of Thermos flask
1. Noun. Vacuum flask that preserves temperature of hot or cold drinks.
Lexicographical Neighbors of Thermos Flask
Literary usage of Thermos flask
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Land of the Blue Poppy: Travels of a Naturalist in Eastern Tibet by Francis Kingdon Ward (1913)
"At the head of my bed stood a small table on which was a thermos flask full of
... Next morning the table was bare ; my thermos flask and towel were gone. ..."
2. Practical Aviation: An Understandable Presentation of Interesting and by Charles Brian Hayward (1919)
"It consists of a thermos flask connected to a small glass gage, slightly curved
but placed horizontally, Fig. 45. 'In this gage is a small drop of liquid ..."
3. The Aeroplane Handbook by Arthur John Swinton (1920)
"It consists of a thermos flask connected to a small glass gauge, slightly curved,
but placed about horizontally. In this gauge is a small drop of liquid, ..."
4. Pyrometry: A Practical Treatise on the Measurement of High Temperatures by Charles Robert Darling (1920)
"A common workshop method is to locate the cold junction in a thermos flask filled
with oil, when a temperature constant to .2° C. may be secured, ..."
5. Injuries and diseases of war: A Manual Based on Experience of the Present by Great Britain Army Medical Services (1918)
"If a really warm vapour is to be obtained with the Shipway apparatus, the delivery
tube from the thermos flask to the mask must not be more than 30 inches ..."
6. Clinical Bacteriology and Haematology for Practitioners by Walter d'Este Emery (1912)
"Another method I have recently adopted is to use a " Thermos " flask, or, what
comes to the same thing, a Dewar's liquid air flask. ..."
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