Bath vs Stew - What's the difference?

As nouns the difference between bath and stew

is that bath is a tub or pool which is used for bathing: bathtub or bath can be (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 while stew is (label) a cooking-dish used for boiling; a cauldron or stew can be a steward or stewardess on an airplane.

As verbs the difference between bath and stew

is that bath is to wash a person or animal in a bath while stew is (transitive|or|intransitive|or|ergative) to cook (food) by slowly boiling or simmering.

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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stew

English

Etymology 1

(etyl) estuve (modern French .

Noun

(en-noun)

(label) A cooking-dish used for boiling; a cauldron.

*:And when he came to the chamber there as this lady was the dores of yron vnlocked and vnbolted / And so syr launcelot wente in to the chambre that was as hote as ony stewe / And there syr launcelot toke the fayrest lady by the hand / that euer he sawe / and she was naked as a nedel

(label) A brothel.

*1681 , (John Dryden), (Absalom and Achitophel)

*:And rak'd, for converts, even the court and stews .

*1835 , (Thomas Babington Macaulay), Sir James Mackintosh

*:Because he was chaste, the precinct of his temple is filled with licensed stews .

*1977 , Gãmini Salgãdo, The Elizabethan Underworld , Folio Society, 2006, p.37:

*:Although whores were permitted to sit at the door of the stew , they could not solicit in any way nor ‘chide or throw stones’ at passers-by.

(label) A prostitute.

*1870 , Charles Dickens, The Mystery of Edwin Drood , Wordsworth Classics, 1998, p.367:

*:I noticed then that there was nothing to drink on the table but brandy, and nothing to eat but salted herrings, and a hot, sickly, highly peppered stew .

(label) A pool in which fish are kept in preparation for eating.

An artificial bed of oysters.

(label) A state of agitated excitement, worry, and/or confusion.

Synonyms

* (food) casserole, (British) hotpot

Coordinate terms

* casserole * cassoulet * goulash * ragout

Derived terms

* in a stew * stewpot

Verb

(en verb)

(transitive, or, intransitive, or, ergative) To cook (food) by slowly boiling or simmering.

I'm going to stew some meat for the casserole.

The meat is stewing nicely.

To brew (tea) for too long, so that the flavour becomes too strong.

(figuratively) To suffer under uncomfortably hot conditions.

(figuratively) To be in a state of elevated anxiety or anger.

Synonyms

* (suffer under hot conditions) bake, boil, sweat, swelter * (be in a state of elevated anxiety) brood, fret, sweat, worry

Etymology 2

Abbreviation of steward or stewardess.

Noun

(en noun)

A steward or stewardess on an airplane.

* 1975 November 3, , volume 8, number 44, page 8 [http://google.com/books?id=OekCAAAAMBAJ&pg=PA8&dq=stew]:

And then, working as a stew for American Airlines, Mo met another older man.

* 1991 , , 1992 edition, ISBN 0425184226, page 480 [http://google.com/books?id=kP84eUjxv-MC&pg=PA480&dq=stew]:

"We want to know what he's going to be saying on his airplane."

"I don't have the legs to dress up as a stew , doc. Besides, I never learned to do the tea ceremony, either."

* 1992 January, Skip Hollandsworth, "Doing the Hustle", , ISSN 0148-7736, volume 20, issue 1, page 52 [http://google.com/books?id=dysEAAAAMBAJ&pg=PA52&dq=stew]:

Dallas was also becoming known as a "stew zoo" because so many flight attendants were relocating there to work for Southwest, Braniff, and American Airlines.

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