Meaning of "bathe" in the English dictionary

ETYMOLOGY OF THE WORD BATHE

Old English bathian; related to Old Norse batha, Old High German badōn.

Etymology is the study of the origin of words and their changes in structure and significance.

PRONUNCIATION OF BATHE

bathe  [beɪð]

GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF BATHE

Bathe is a verb and can also act as a noun.

A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

The verb is the part of the sentence that is conjugated and expresses action and state of being.

See the conjugation of the verb bathe in English.

WHAT DOES BATHE MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Bathing

Bathing is the washing of the body with a fluid, usually water or an aqueous solution, or the immersion of the body in water. It may be practised for personal hygiene, religious ritual or therapeutic purposes. By analogy, especially as a recreational activity, the term is also applied to sun bathing and sea bathing. Bathing can take place in any situation where there is water, ranging from warm to cold. It can take place in a bathtub or shower, or it can be in a river, lake, water hole, pool or the sea, or any other water receptacle. The term for the act can vary. For example, a ritual religious bath is sometimes referred to as immersion, the use of water for therapeutic purposes can be called water treatment or hydrotherapy, and two recreational water activities are known as swimming and paddling. The city of Bath is famous for its public baths fed by hydrothermal springs.

Definition of bathe in the English dictionary

The first definition of bathe in the dictionary is to swim or paddle in a body of open water or a river, esp for pleasure. Other definition of bathe is to apply liquid to in order to cleanse or soothe. Bathe is also to immerse or be immersed in a liquid.

CONJUGATION OF THE VERB TO BATHE

PRESENT

Present

I bathe

you bathe

he/she/it bathes

we bathe

you bathe

they bathe

Present continuous

I am bathing

you are bathing

he/she/it is bathing

we are bathing

you are bathing

they are bathing

Present perfect

I have bathed

you have bathed

he/she/it has bathed

we have bathed

you have bathed

they have bathed

Present perfect continuous

I have been bathing

you have been bathing

he/she/it has been bathing

we have been bathing

you have been bathing

they have been bathing

Present tense is used to refer to circumstances that exist at the present time or over a period that includes the present time. The present perfect refers to past events, although it can be considered to denote primarily the resulting present situation rather than the events themselves.

PAST

Past

I bathed

you bathed

he/she/it bathed

we bathed

you bathed

they bathed

Past continuous

I was bathing

you were bathing

he/she/it was bathing

we were bathing

you were bathing

they were bathing

Past perfect

I had bathed

you had bathed

he/she/it had bathed

we had bathed

you had bathed

they had bathed

Past perfect continuous

I had been bathing

you had been bathing

he/she/it had been bathing

we had been bathing

you had been bathing

they had been bathing

Past tense forms express circumstances existing at some time in the past,

FUTURE

Future

I will bathe

you will bathe

he/she/it will bathe

we will bathe

you will bathe

they will bathe

Future continuous

I will be bathing

you will be bathing

he/she/it will be bathing

we will be bathing

you will be bathing

they will be bathing

Future perfect

I will have bathed

you will have bathed

he/she/it will have bathed

we will have bathed

you will have bathed

they will have bathed

Future perfect continuous

I will have been bathing

you will have been bathing

he/she/it will have been bathing

we will have been bathing

you will have been bathing

they will have been bathing

The future is used to express circumstances that will occur at a later time.

CONDITIONAL

Conditional

I would bathe

you would bathe

he/she/it would bathe

we would bathe

you would bathe

they would bathe

Conditional continuous

I would be bathing

you would be bathing

he/she/it would be bathing

we would be bathing

you would be bathing

they would be bathing

Conditional perfect

I would have bathe

you would have bathe

he/she/it would have bathe

we would have bathe

you would have bathe

they would have bathe

Conditional perfect continuous

I would have been bathing

you would have been bathing

he/she/it would have been bathing

we would have been bathing

you would have been bathing

they would have been bathing

Conditional or "future-in-the-past" tense refers to hypothetical or possible actions.

IMPERATIVE

Imperative

you bathe
we let´s bathe
you bathe

The imperative is used to form commands or requests.

NONFINITE VERB FORMS

Infinitive

to bathe

Past participle

bathed

Present Participle

bathing

Infinitive shows the action beyond temporal perspective. The present participle or gerund shows the action during the session. The past participle shows the action after completion.

SYNONYMS OF «BATHE»

The following words have a similar or identical meaning as «bathe» and belong to the same grammatical category.

synonyms of bathe

bath · clean · cleanse · cover · dip · dook · engulf · flood · immerse · lave · overrun · paddle · permeate · plunge · rinse · scrub · shower · soak · soap · sponge · steep · suffuse · swim · tub · wash · wash over

TRANSLATION OF BATHE

Find out the translation of bathe to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.

The translations of bathe from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «bathe» in English.

• Translator English - Chinese: 沐浴
• Translator English - Spanish: bañarse
• English: bathe
• Translator English - Hindi: स्नान
• Translator English - Arabic: يَسْتَحِّمُ
• Translator English - Russian: купаться
• Translator English - Portuguese: banhar-se
• Translator English - Bengali: স্নান
• Translator English - French: se baigner
• Translator English - Malay: Mandi
• Translator English - German: baden
• Translator English - Japanese: 泳ぐ
• Translator English - Korean: 수영하다
• Translator English - Javanese: Siram
• Translator English - Vietnamese: đầm mình
• Translator English - Tamil: குளிப்பாட்டப்
• Translator English - Marathi: स्नान करणे
• Translator English - Turkish: yıkanmak
• Translator English - Italian: fare il bagno
• Translator English - Polish: wykąpać się
• Translator English - Ukrainian: купатися
• Translator English - Romanian: a se scălda
• Translator English - Greek: κάνω μπάνιο
• Translator English - Afrikaans: bad
• Translator English - Swedish: bada
• Translator English - Norwegian: bade

10 QUOTES WITH «BATHE»

Famous quotes and sentences with the word bathe.

1

Stephen Baker

To bathe a cat takes brute force, perseverance, courage of conviction - and a cat. The last ingredient is usually hardest to come by.

2

Robert Burns

The snowdrop and primrose our woodlands adorn, and violets bathe in the wet o' the morn.

3

C. S. Forester

The work is with me when I wake up in the morning; it is with me while I eat my breakfast in bed and run through the newspaper, while I shave and bathe and dress.

4

George Grey

I mention this fact as tending to support what I have often heard stated, namely, that a shark's sense of smell is so keen that, if men ever bathe in seas where they are found, a shark is almost sure to appear directly afterwards.

5

Steve Harvey

Women are the real reason we get up every day. I'm talking about real men. If there were no women, I would not even have to bathe, because why would I care? These are guys I'm hanging with. I wake up for a woman every day of my life to make it happen for her.

6

Stevie Smith

I may be smelly and I may be old, Rough in my pebbles, reedy in my pools, But where my fish float by I bless their swimming, And I like the people to bathe in me especially women.

7

Kathryn Stockett

What a dichotomy. What conflicting ideas that we love and embrace these women, and entrust them to raise our children and to feed us and to bathe us, but we keep something as silly as a bathroom separate.

8

Kathryn Stockett

What conflicting ideas that we love and embrace these women, and entrust them to raise our children and to feed us and to bathe us, but we keep something as silly as a bathroom separate.

9

Rufus Wainwright

My mother's songs are really turning out to be masterpieces. I have inherited this incredible legacy and am so fortunate to bathe in her sensibilities. It is tinged with tragedy. I'd much rather she was here in person, but there is still a positive force to come out of her death and that is having the gift of music that she gave.

10

Ethel Waters

We never had a bathtub. Mom would bathe me in the wooden or tin washtub in the kitchen, or in a big lard can.

10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «BATHE»

Discover the use of bathe in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to bathe and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.

Inelastic Analysis of Solids and Structures

This method represents a generalization of “the efiectivestress-function method”, introduced by Kojic and Bathe and first published in 1984 (Bathe, Chaudhary, Dvorkin, and Kojic 1984). The essence of the effective-stress-function method is to ...

M. Kojic, Klaus-Jurgen Bathe, 2006

William Bathe, S.J., 1564-1614: A Pioneer in Linguistics

The present book deals with Bathe's family background, his life and service as a courtier, diplomat and, finally, Jesuit educator, and, in particular, his contribution to the study of language and his most important publication, Ianua ...

Seán P. Ó Mathúna, 1986

To Bathe a Boa

C. Imbior Kudrna's hilarious illustrations capture all the subtleties of the boa's antics in this story that will forever change the way youngsters feel about bathing.

C. Imbior Kudrna, 2011

A Briefe Introduction to the Skill of Song, C. 1587

No copy of this work now exists, but some years later Bathe produced a new version, now called A brief Introduction to the skill of song.

William Bathe, Bernarr Rainbow, 1982

The Finite Element Analysis of Shells - Fundamentals: ...

This book presents a modern continuum mechanics and mathematical framework to study shell physical behaviors, and to formulate and evaluate finite element procedures.

Dominique Chapelle, Klaus-Jurgen Bathe, 2010

Computational Fluid and Solid Mechanics 2003

K.J Bathe. FREE CYLINDER TEST - Ml3D9' - Mesh grading 2SQRT(t), Am+Ab t/L =1/100 + t/L=1/1000 + t/L=1/10000 + 0.1 - - ti: 0.01 - - 0.001 - _ 0.0001 2- 2 -' 1 10 100 N 5. Conclusions We have formulated a 3D-shell finite element procedure ...

K.J Bathe, 2003

A Briefe Introduction to the Skill of Song

In addition to providing the first modern edition of Bathe's treatise, the volume examines the complicated compilation and publication histories of the book, the historical and theoretical foundations of Bathe's contributions, and the ...

William Bathe, Kevin Karnes, 2005

Of Bathing in the Hot-baths at Bathe

John Wynter. found not far from (k) Oclac'e-Hole, near Wells, with this Inscription, . TI. CLAUDIUS CjESAR AVG. _P. M. TRIB. P. VIIII. lMP. XVI. DE BRITAN. 'A second Proof of the Romans being in this very Part of the Island, is, the Victory ...

John Wynter, 1728

The Practical Spanish Teacher; Or, A New Method of Learning ...

710s bañamos, V. o i bañasteis, Ello.: se bañaron, FUTURE. Yo me bañare, Tú te bañaras, El se bañara, JV. nos bañaremos, V. os bañareis. Ellos se bañaran, Bañeme yo, Bañate tú. Bañese el, I bathe. thou bnlhest. he balhes. we bathe.

Norman Pinney, J.. Barceló, 1866

Æsop at Bathe; or, A few select fables in verse, by a person ...

. TO THE READE AND why not Bathe at good <#Tunbridg?

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «BATHE»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term bathe is used in the context of the following news items.

Bathe in crude oil at Azerbaijan spa

You can visit a spa in Naftalan, Azerbaijan and relax in a bath of crude oil, a "medicinal treatment" that apparently goes back to the 6th century. «Boing Boing, Jul 15»

Water 'not fit' to drink in Hare Bay, family says

In order to bathe their young daughter, the Collins have to filter the water ... In order to bathe her daughter, Winola Collins has to filter the water ... «CBC.ca, Jul 15»

SlingShot: Inventor Dean Kamen's 15-year quest to solve the world's …

... that there are still large numbers of people who don't have regular access to clean water to drink (or cook, or bathe, or do anything else with). «Treehugger, Jul 15»

Watch woman get Viking tattoo burned into her arm at 500C in new …

The practice has its origins in ancient civilisations such as the Vikings who would either burn symbols into their skin or cut their flesh and bathe ... «Mirror.co.uk, Jul 15»

Kylie Jenner Shares New House With Tyga? Blac Chyna Allows …

"She's going to feed him, bathe him, clothe him and make sure that roof over his head is paid for. He ain't got no money to pay his own rent," the ... «KpopStarz, Jul 15»

Was Steve Harvey homeless?

... as a refridgerator, and scouted out available gas station bathrooms, or the occasional swimming pool shower, for places to bathe himself. «Starcasm.net, Jul 15»

Set sail on revolutionary 'Hot Tug' hot tub boat that retails for £30000

Inventor Frank de Brujin, 45, said: 'You fill the tub with water, put some wood in the stove, heat it and in a couple of hours you are ready to bathe ... «Daily Mail, Jul 15»

Caring for your horse's legs after cross-country: what you need to …

Andy Bathe MRCVS, former vet to the British event team, says: “The quickest way to cool a horse off is to copiously apply iced water all over the ... «Horse & Hound, Jul 15»

Insecticides Are Killing the Pollinators: How Bea-Killing …

... by the U.S. Geological Survey found that neonics are widespread contaminants of groundwater which many people use to drink or bathe in. «Center for Research on Globalization, Jul 15»

UBC student dies after attending Washington music festival

by Anita Bathe. Posted Jul 6, 2015 2:23 pm PDT. Vivek Pandher FACEBOOK. Summary. UBC engineering student dies after attending Washington music festival. «News1130, Jul 15»