dewar

Other forms of dewar

plural

dewars·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about dewar

What does dewar mean?

dewar means "vacuum flask that holds liquid air or helium for scientific experiments". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in dewar?

dewar has 2 syllables: de-war. The stress falls on "de". In IPA it is /ˈduɚ/.

What is another word for dewar?

Close synonyms include Dewar flask, Sir James Dewar. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is dewar a common word?

dewar is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.

What rhymes with dewar?

2 words rhyme with dewar. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.