Vial vs Flask - What's the difference?
vial | flask |
A glass vessel or bottle, especially a small tube-shaped bottle used to store medicine, perfume or other chemical.
* Shakespeare
A narrow-necked vessel of metal or glass, used for various purposes; as of sheet metal, to carry gunpowder in; or of wrought iron, to contain quicksilver; or of glass, to heat water in, etc.
A container used to discreetly carry a small amount of a hard alcoholic beverage; a pocket flask.
(sciences) Laboratory glassware used to hold larger volumes than test tubes, normally having a narrow mouth of a standard size which widens to a flat or spherical base.
(engineering) A container for holding a casting mold, especially for sand casting molds.
A bed in a gun carriage.
As nouns the difference between vial and flask
is that vial is a glass vessel or bottle, especially a small tube-shaped bottle used to store medicine, perfume or other chemical while flask is a narrow-necked vessel of metal or glass, used for various purposes; as of sheet metal, to carry gunpowder in; or of wrought iron, to contain quicksilver; or of glass, to heat water in, etc.As a verb vial
is to put or keep in, or as in, a vial.vial
English
(vial)Alternative forms
* phialNoun
(en noun)- Take thou this vial , being then in bed, / And this distilled liquor thou off.
Synonyms
* ampoule * test tube * vacutainerReferences
*Anagrams
* * * ----flask
English
(wikipedia flask)Noun
(en noun)- (Bailey)