Thermos

//ˈθɜː.mɒs//

"Thermos" in a Sentence (13 examples)

I made a thermos full of coffee so you can take it along with your lunch.

No, Yumi put it in a thermos flask and brought it into the club room.

In the cold season when you want to drink something hot I recommend this sort of thermos flask.

How does a Thermos know how to keep hot things hot and cold things cold?

Tea, drunk from a new thermos, tastes a little metallic.

Son of a bitch stole my backpack, ate my sandwich, and shit in my Thermos!

My thermos was stolen.

"What's in the thermos?" "Tea."

Tom filled his thermos bottle with hot coffee.

Tom filled his thermos bottle with coffee.

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The mnaeion contains 4 gold pieces, 16 quarters, 64 thermoi, 128 carats. The gold piece contains 4 staters [sic for quarters], 16 thermoi, 32 carats. The thermos contains 2 carats. The quarter contains 4 thermoi, 8 carats. The thermos contains 2 carats.[…]The mnaeion has sixteen (16) quarters and the quarter has 6 thermoi, twelve (12) carats. The thermos has 2 carats, so that the mnaeion consists of 96 thermoi, 192 carats. The mnaeion weighs 8 drachmas, the quarter three obols, the thermos one-half obol, the carat 2 chalci.[…]Thermoi of 2 and of 1½ siliquae are attested in metrological writings (MSR II 180, s.v. θέρμοϲ); ½ ob. per thermus^([sic]) in 18 implies the lighter weight, as 1 ob. = 3 sil.[…]The mnaeion has 16 quarters and the quarter has (4 or 6) thermoi…

1 saton (seʾah) = 1/3 ephah (see above for correction) = 2/3 bath / mina by weight = 50 shekels / ¼ shekel = 4 thermoi / shekel = 16 thermoi and one weight (?)

A third of a seah is a third of an ephah, and two-thirds of a bath, and the weight of a mina is fifty of shekels, and a quarter of a shekel is the weight of four thermoi.ᵍ Let the shekel be about sixteen thermoi and of one weight.[…]g. “thermoi”—A unit of measure whose identification remains very unclear.

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