DEWAR

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Dewar mean? 

• DEWAR (noun)
  The noun DEWAR has 2 senses:

1. vacuum flask that holds liquid air or helium for scientific experiments

2. Scottish chemist and physicist noted for his work in cryogenics and his invention of the Dewar flask (1842-1923)

  Familiarity information: DEWAR used as a noun is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• DEWAR (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Vacuum flask that holds liquid air or helium for scientific experiments

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Synonyms:

Dewar; Dewar flask

Hypernyms ("Dewar" is a kind of...):

vacuum bottle; vacuum flask (flask with double walls separated by vacuum; used to maintain substances at high or low temperatures)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Scottish chemist and physicist noted for his work in cryogenics and his invention of the Dewar flask (1842-1923)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

Dewar; Sir James Dewar

Instance hypernyms:

chemist (a scientist who specializes in chemistry)

physicist (a scientist trained in physics)

 Context examples 

A dosing unit equal to the amount of active ingredient(s) contained in a dewar.

(Dewar Dosing Unit, NCI Thesaurus)

Of theatrical people there were Gus Waize and Horace O'Donavan and Lester Meyer and George Duckweed and Francis Bull. Also from New York were the Chromes and the Backhyssons and the Dennickers and Russel Betty and the Corrigans and the Kellehers and the Dewars and the Scullys and S. W. Belcher and the Smirkes and the young Quinns, divorced now, and Henry L. Palmetto who killed himself by jumping in front of a subway train in Times Square.

(The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald)