Tikibu: pronunciation dictionary with use examples

Word: thermometer
IPA transcription: [θɚm'ɑmətɚ]
Pronunciations of thermometer
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noun meaning of the word
  • Synonyms: thermometer
    Meaning: measuring instrument for measuring temperature
Usage examples
  • This justified Davy's theory, and more than once I consulted the thermometer with surprise.
  • When Captain Parry was on Melville Island, he knew the thermometer to fall to 56 degrees," said Procope.
  • He took his temperature with a little clinical thermometer he kept by him and found it was a hundred and one.
  • This Zeb Stump could tell with as much ease and certainty, as one might read the index of a dial, or thermometer.
  • Through late November and all December it snowed daily; the thermometer was at zero and might drop to twenty below, or thirty.
  • For protection he varies the number of his suits of underclothing, sometimes wearing three or four sets, according to the thermometer.
  • When it is raised to its highest temperature, with the doors closed, the thermometer stands at 350 degrees, and the iron floor is red hot.
  • If under these conditions a cloud floats overhead, forming a heat screen, its presence will be readily noticed by a rise in the thermometer.
  • Reduce to a temperature of one hundred and eight degrees with cold water, using a milk thermometer to enable you to get exactly the right temperature.
  • A range of twenty degrees is about all that the spirits in the thermometer ever show, for the minimum is seventy-two and the maximum ninety-two degrees.
0. Word pronunciation is derived from article recording Benjamin Franklin, License CC BY-SA 4.0
1. Word pronunciation is derived from article recording Hillary Clinton, License CC BY-SA 4.0