Bath vs. Lake

Bathnoun

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

Lakenoun

A small stream of running water; a channel for water; a drain.

Bathnoun

A building or area where bathing occurs.

Lakenoun

A large, landlocked stretch of water.

Bathnoun

The act of bathing.

Lakenoun

A large amount of liquid; as, a wine lake.

Bathnoun

A substance or preparation in which something is immersed.

‘a bath of heated sand, ashes, steam, or hot air’;

Lakenoun

(obsolete) A pit, or ditch

Bathnoun

A former Hebrew unit of liquid volume (about 23{{nbsp}}L or 6 gallons).

Lakenoun

(obsolete) An offering, sacrifice, gift.

Bathverb

(transitive) To wash a person or animal in a bath

Lakenoun

(dialectal) Play; sport; game; fun; glee.

Bathnoun

The act of exposing the body, or part of the body, for purposes of cleanliness, comfort, health, etc., to water, vapor, hot air, or the like; as, a cold or a hot bath; a medicated bath; a steam bath; a hip bath.

Lakenoun

(obsolete) A kind of fine, white linen.

Bathnoun

Water or other liquid for bathing.

Lakenoun

In dyeing and painting, an often fugitive crimson or vermillion pigment derived from an organic colorant (cochineal or madder, for example) and an inorganic, generally metallic mordant.

Bathnoun

A receptacle or place where persons may immerse or wash their bodies in water.

Lakeverb

(obsolete) To present an offering.

Bathnoun

A building containing an apartment or a series of apartments arranged for bathing.

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

Lakeverb

To leap, jump, exert oneself, play.

Bathnoun

A medium, as heated sand, ashes, steam, hot air, through which heat is applied to a body.

Lakeverb

To make lake-red.

Bathnoun

A solution in which plates or prints are immersed; also, the receptacle holding the solution.

Lakenoun

A pigment formed by combining some coloring matter, usually by precipitation, with a metallic oxide or earth, esp. with aluminium hydrate; as, madder lake; Florentine lake; yellow lake, etc.

Bathnoun

A Hebrew measure containing the tenth of a homer, or five gallons and three pints, as a measure for liquids; and two pecks and five quarts, as a dry measure.

Lakenoun

A kind of fine white linen, formerly in use.

Bathnoun

A city in the west of England, resorted to for its hot springs, which has given its name to various objects.

Lakenoun

A large body of water contained in a depression of the earth's surface, and supplied from the drainage of a more or less extended area.

Bathnoun

a vessel containing liquid in which something is immersed (as to process it or to maintain it at a constant temperature or to lubricate it);

‘she soaked the etching in an acid bath’;

Lakeverb

To play; to sport.

Bathnoun

you soak your body in a bathtub;

‘he has a good bath every morning’;

Lakenoun

a body of (usually fresh) water surrounded by land

Bathnoun

a relatively large open container that you fill with water and use to wash the body

Lakenoun

a purplish red pigment prepared from lac or cochineal

Bathnoun

an ancient Hebrew liquid measure equal to about 10 gallons

Lakenoun

any of numerous bright translucent organic pigments

Bathnoun

a town in southwestern England on the River Avon; famous for its hot springs and Roman remains

Lakenoun

a large area of water surrounded by land

‘Lake Victoria’; ‘boys were swimming in the lake’;

Bathnoun

a room (as in a residence) containing a bath or shower and usually a washbasin and toilet

Lakenoun

the Lake District.

Bathverb

clean one's body by immersion into water;

‘The child should bathe every day’;

Lakenoun

a pool of liquid

‘the fish was served in a lake of spicy sauce’;

Lakenoun

a large surplus of a liquid commodity

‘the EU wine lake’;

Lakenoun

an insoluble pigment made by combining a soluble organic dye and an insoluble mordant.

Lakenoun

a purplish-red pigment made in the same way as lake, originally one obtained from lac.

Lake

A lake is an area filled with water, localized in a basin, surrounded by land, apart from any river or other outlet that serves to feed or drain the lake. Lakes lie on land and are not part of the ocean, although like the much larger oceans, they form part of Earth's water cycle.