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21Ice bath — Champion weightlifter Karyn Marshall took an ice bath after an event in 2011. In sports therapy, an ice bath or sometimes a cold water immersion or cold therapy is a training regimen usually following a period of intense exercise[1] …
22water bath — n 1) a bath composed of or using water 2) a vessel containing usu. heated water over or in which something in a separate container is processed * * * a container of water for immersing bodies or for immersing liquid containing vessels that are to …
23bath — O.E. bæð immersing in water, mud, etc., also quantity of water, etc., for bathing, from P.Gmc. *batham (Cf. O.N. bað, M.Du. bat, Ger. bad), from PIE root *bhe to warm (Cf. L. fovere to foment ). Original sense was of heating, not immersing in… …
24immerse — UK [ɪˈmɜː(r)s] / US [ɪˈmɜrs] verb [transitive] Word forms immerse : present tense I/you/we/they immerse he/she/it immerses present participle immersing past tense immersed past participle immersed formal to put something or someone in a liquid,… …
25immersion — [i mʉr′zhən, i mʉr′shən] n. [LL(Ec) immersio] 1. an immersing or being immersed 2. baptism by immersing 3. Astron. [Now Rare] Astron. Now Rare occultation or eclipse …
26Bath — n. & v. n. (pl. baths) 1 a (in full bath tub) a container for liquid, usu. water, used for immersing and washing the body. b this with its contents (your bath is ready). 2 the act or process of immersing the body for washing or therapy (have a… …
27bath — n. & v. n. (pl. baths) 1 a (in full bath tub) a container for liquid, usu. water, used for immersing and washing the body. b this with its contents (your bath is ready). 2 the act or process of immersing the body for washing or therapy (have a… …
28immersion — n. 1 the act or an instance of immersing; the process of being immersed. 2 baptism by immersing the whole person in water. 3 mental absorption. 4 Astron. the disappearance of a celestial body behind another or in its shadow. Phrases and idioms:… …
29MIKVEH — (Heb. מִקְוֶה; pl. mikva ot; Hebrew for a collection or gathering (of water), a pool or bath of clear water, immersion in which renders ritually clean a person who has become ritually unclean through contact with the dead (Num. 19) or any other… …
30Adamic earth — Earth Earth ([ e]rth), n. [AS. eor[eth]e; akin to OS. ertha, OFries. irthe, D. aarde, OHG. erda, G. erde, Icel. j[ o]r[eth], Sw. & Dan. jord, Goth. a[=i]r[thorn]a, OHG. ero, Gr. ?, adv., to earth, and perh. to E. ear to plow.] 1. The globe or… …
