burette

See also: Burette and Bürette

English

Alternative forms

buret

Etymology

Borrowed from French burette.

Pronunciation

(UK) IPA^(key): /bjʊəˈɹɛt/
(US) IPA^(key): /bjʊˈɹɛt/
Audio (US): (file)

Noun

burette (plural burettes)

(chemistry) A glass tube with fine gradations and a stopcock at the bottom, used in laboratory procedures for accurate fluid dispensing and titration.
Coordinate term: pipette
(religion) An altar cruet.

Translations

glass tube with fine gradations and a stopcock used for titration, etc.

Arabic: سَحَّاحَة f (saḥḥāḥa)
Bulgarian: бюре́та f (bjuréta)
Catalan: bureta f
Chinese:
Cantonese: 滴定管 (dik⁶ ding⁶ gun²)

Mandarin: 滴定管 (zh) (dīdìngguǎn)
Czech: byreta f
Danish: burette c
Dutch: buret (nl) m or f
Finnish: byretti (fi)
French: burette (fr) f
German: Bürette (de) f
Greek: προχοΐδα (el) f (prochoḯda)
Icelandic: búretta f
Indonesian: buret (id)
Italian: buretta (it) f
Japanese: ビュレット (ja) (byuretto)
Malay: buret (ms)
Maori: ngōine, ngōine katirere
Norwegian:
Bokmål: byrette m

Nynorsk: byrette m
Polish: biureta (pl) f
Portuguese: bureta (pt) f
Russian: бюре́тка (ru) f (bjurétka)
Serbo-Croatian:
Cyrillic: бирѐта f

Roman: birèta (sh) f
Spanish: bureta f

French

Etymology

From buire +‎ -ette.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /by.ʁɛt/
Homophone: Burette

Noun

burette f (plural burettes)

oilcan
(chemistry) burette
(religion) cruet used to keep wine and water for Eucharist

Descendants

→ Portuguese: bureta

Further reading

“burette”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

Anagrams

Burette, rebutte, rebutté

Italian

Noun

burette f

plural of buretta