different between burette vs pipette

English

Alternative forms

• buret

Etymology

Borrowed from French burette.

Noun

burette (plural burettes)

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

Translations

French

Noun

burette f (plural burettes)

1. oilcan
2. (chemistry) burette
3. (religion) cruet used to keep wine and water for Eucharist

Further reading

• “burette” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Italian

Noun

burette f

1. plural of buretta

English

Alternative forms

• pipet (US)

Etymology

From French pipette, from pipe + -ette.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /p??p?t/
• (US) enPR: p?.p?t?, IPA^(key): /pa??p?t/

Noun

pipette (plural pipettes)

1. (sciences) A small tube, often with an enlargement or bulb in the middle, and usually graduated, used for transferring or delivering measured quantities of a liquid. [from 19th c.]

Translations

Verb

pipette (third-person singular simple present pipettes, present participle pipetting, simple past and past participle pipetted)

1. To transfer or measure the volume of a liquid using a pipette.

Translations

French

Etymology

From pipe +? -ette.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /pi.p?t/

Noun

pipette f (plural pipettes)

1. (sciences) pipette

Further reading

• “pipette” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Italian

Noun

pipette f

1. plural of pipetta

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology

From French pipette

Noun

pipette m (definite singular pipetten, indefinite plural pipetter, definite plural pipettene)

1. a pipette

References

• “pipette” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

pipette on the Norwegian Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^no

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology

From French pipette

Noun

pipette m (definite singular pipetten, indefinite plural pipettar, definite plural pipettane)

1. a pipette

References

• “pipette” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.