How do you use Thermometer in a sentence? See 10+ example sentences showing how this word appears in different contexts, plus the exact meaning.
Thermometer meaning
An apparatus used to measure temperature.
Synonyms of Thermometer
Using Thermometer
- The main meaning on this page is: An apparatus used to measure temperature.
- Useful related words include: measuring instrument, measuring system, measuring device.
- In the example corpus, thermometer often appears in combinations such as: the thermometer, thermometer in, thermometer at.
Context around Thermometer
- Average sentence length in these examples: 25.4 words
- Position in the sentence: 3 start, 13 middle, 4 end
- Sentence types: 20 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Thermometer
- In this selection, "thermometer" usually appears in the middle of the sentence. The average example has 25.4 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, contactless, meat, forehead, away, bulb and readings stand out and add context to how "thermometer" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include a baby thermometer in the and a contactless thermometer. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "thermometer" sits close to words such as affectionately, amends and animosity, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with thermometer
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
Shute dropped a thermometer into the water. (7 words)
A meat thermometer should read 145 degrees Fahrenheit. (8 words)
This is taken by covering a thermometer with a water-soaked cloth. (12 words)
Portland’s most recent heat wave reached its peak in the afternoon of Monday, August 14. Around 4 p.m. that day, the thermometer at the Portland International Airport read 108 degrees Fahrenheit, the second-hottest temperature ever recorded in the city. (42 words)
No matter how you want to take your temperature (in the mouth, with a forehead thermometer, with a baby thermometer, in the armpit, with a contactless thermometer or in the ear canal) there's a model out there for you. (40 words)
They conducted their experiment with the bulb of a mercury thermometer as their object and with a bellows used to "quicken" the evaporation; they lowered the temperature of the thermometer bulb down to convert, while the ambient temperature was convert. (40 words)
Example sentences (20)
No matter how you want to take your temperature (in the mouth, with a forehead thermometer, with a baby thermometer, in the armpit, with a contactless thermometer or in the ear canal) there's a model out there for you.
Ray loved going head-to-head, or thermometer to thermometer, or thickness of fur, to computers and gadgets used by others.
For the paramedic who needs to quickly ascertain a trauma patient’s vitals and can’t worry about carefully stowing an expensive thermometer away after use, a disposable thermometer is perfect.
For example, the expansion of mercury in a glass thermometer is slightly different from the change in resistance of a platinum resistance thermometer, so these two will disagree slightly at around 50 °C.
Further, the term "The Celsius or Centigrade thermometer" was again used in reference to a particular type of thermometer at least as early as 1850.
If the non-registering thermometer was removed from the hot liquid, then the temperature indicated on the thermometer would immediately begin changing to reflect the temperature of its new conditions (in this case, the air temperature).
They conducted their experiment with the bulb of a mercury thermometer as their object and with a bellows used to "quicken" the evaporation; they lowered the temperature of the thermometer bulb down to convert, while the ambient temperature was convert.
A meat thermometer should read 145 degrees Fahrenheit.
A simple food thermometer can help make sure food is being stored at safe temperatures and ice and coolers should be available to store food at outdoor events.
A visitor poses for a photo with the thermometer at the Furnace Creek Visitor Center on Sunday.
But even they must have done a double-take when their preferred candidate started talking about placing a giant ‘independence thermometer’ in Glasgow or Edinburgh, in order for the country’s readiness for independence to be displayed.
Conscientiously, he noted the daily barometer, wind and thermometer readings, describing the weather through each day.
Insert ovenproof meat thermometer so tip is centered in thickest part of beef, not resting in fat or touching bone.
Portland’s most recent heat wave reached its peak in the afternoon of Monday, August 14. Around 4 p.m. that day, the thermometer at the Portland International Airport read 108 degrees Fahrenheit, the second-hottest temperature ever recorded in the city.
Shute dropped a thermometer into the water.
The most bizarrely plausible rumor on the Pixel 8 front is a new thermometer feature.
The Pixel 8 Pro measured the temperature of a cup of tea and a glass of water almost instantly after I opened the phone's thermometer app and hovered it over the mug.
The team described its project as “a cube made out of plexiglass and steel that contains a CO2 sensor, SO2 sensor, distance sensor, a regular camera, thermal camera, thermometer and a microcontroller.
The white-coloured infrared temperature sensor is expected to act as a contactless thermometer.
This is taken by covering a thermometer with a water-soaked cloth.
Common combinations with thermometer
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:
- the thermometer 34×
- thermometer in 9×
- thermometer at 9×
- thermometer and 9×
- thermometer is 8×
- of thermometer 6×
- meat thermometer 6×
- thermometer that 6×
- thermometer to 5×
- thermometer was 5×