Bath vs Lathe - What's the difference?

As verbs the difference between bath and lathe

is that bath is (label) drown while lathe is to invite; bid; ask or lathe can be to shape with a lathe.

As a noun lathe is

(obsolete) an administrative division of the county of kent, in england, from the anglo-saxon period until it fell entirely out of use in the early twentieth century or lathe can be a machine tool used to shape a piece of material, or workpiece, by rotating the workpiece against a cutting tool.

bath

English

Etymology 1

From (etyl), from (etyl) .

Noun

(en noun)

A tub or pool which is used for bathing: bathtub.

A building or area where bathing occurs.

* Gwilt

Among the ancients, the public baths were of amazing extent and magnificence.

The act of bathing.

A substance or preparation in which something is immersed.

a bath of heated sand, ashes, steam, or hot air

* {{quote-book, year=1879 , title=The Telephone, the Microphone and the Phonograph

, author=Th Du Moncel , page=166 , publisher=Harper , passage=He takes the prepared charcoal used by artists, brings it to a white heat, and suddenly plunges it in a bath of mercury, of which the globules instantly penetrate the pores of charcoal, and may be said to metallize it.}}

Usage notes

Sense 3. is usually to take''' ''(US)'' or '''have ''(UK, Aus)'' a bath. See also

Derived terms

* * * * * (US)

Verb

(en verb)

To wash a person or animal in a bath

* {{quote-book, year=1990

, author=Mukti Jain Campion , title=The Baby Challenge: A handbook on pregnancy for women with a physical disability. citation , isbn=0415048591 , page=41 , passage=Somewhere to bath''' the baby'': don't invest in a plastic baby bath. The bathroom handbasin is usually a much more convenient place to '''bath''' the baby. If your partner is more able, this could be a task he might take on as his, ' bathing the baby in a basin or plastic bown on the floor. }}

* {{quote-book, year=2006

, author=Sue Dallas, Diana North and Joanne Angus , title=Grooming Manual for the Dog and Cat citation , isbn=1405111836 , page=91 , passage=For grooming at home, obviously the choice is yours whether you wish to bath the dog in your own bath or sink, or if you want to buy one specifically for the purpose. }}

* {{quote-book, year=2007

, author=Robin Barker , title=Baby Love citation , isbn=17770075445 , page=179 , passage=If you find bathing stressfull during the first six weeks, only bath your baby once or twice a week. }}

Etymology 2

From (etyl) .

Noun

(en noun)

(biblical) 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.

* 1611, ,

Ye shall have just balances, and a just ephah, and a just bath'. The ephah and the '''bath''' shall be of one measure, that the ' bath may contain the tenth part of an homer, and the ephah the tenth part of an homer: the measure thereof shall be after the homer.

Anagrams

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lathe

English

(wikipedia lathe)

Etymology 1

From (etyl) lathen, from (etyl) .

Alternative forms

* (l)

Verb

To invite; bid; ask.

Etymology 2

From (etyl) *.

Alternative forms

* (l)

Noun

(en noun)

(obsolete) An administrative division of the county of Kent, in England, from the Anglo-Saxon period until it fell entirely out of use in the early twentieth century.

Etymology 3

(etyl) . More at lade.

Noun

(en noun)

A machine tool used to shape a piece of material, or workpiece, by rotating the workpiece against a cutting tool.

He shaped the bedpost by turning it on a lathe .

* 1856 : (Gustave Flaubert), (Madame Bovary), Part II Chapter IV, translated by Eleanor Marx-Aveling

Of the windows of the village there was one yet more often occupied; for on Sundays from morning to night, and every morning when the weather was bright, one could see at the dormer-window of the garret the profile of Monsieur Binet bending over his lathe , whose monotonous humming could be heard at the Lion d'Or.

The movable swing frame of a loom, carrying the reed for separating the warp threads and beating up the weft; a lay, or batten.

(obsolete) A granary; a barn.

(Chaucer)

Verb

(lath)

To shape with a lathe.

(computer graphics) To produce a 3D model by rotating a set of points around a fixed axis.