ống hút
Definition
- Noun:
- Drinking straw: A thin, hollow tube, typically made of plastic, paper, or metal, used for sucking a beverage from a container into one's mouth.
- Pipette (chemistry): A slender glass or plastic tube, often with a bulb in the middle, used in laboratories to measure, transfer, or dispense small, precise volumes of liquid.
Usage Examples
- Noun:
- Con muốn uống nước bằng ống hút màu đỏ. (I want to drink juice with a red straw.)
- Cô ấy dùng ống hút để hút cạn ly sinh tố. (She used a straw to finish her smoothie.)
- Nhà khoa học dùng ống hút để lấy chính xác 5 ml dung dịch. (The scientist used a pipette to take exactly 5 ml of the solution.)
Advanced Usage
- "Ống hút giấy": Paper straw. An eco-friendly alternative to plastic straws.
- Quán cà phê này chỉ phục vụ ống hút giấy. (This coffee shop only serves paper straws.)
- "Ống hút cỏ": Grass straw. A natural, biodegradable drinking straw made from certain types of grass.
- Ống hút cỏ bảo vệ môi trường rất tốt. (Grass straws are very good for protecting the environment.)
Variants and Related Words
- Ống hút nhựa (n): Plastic straw. The most common traditional type.
- Nhiều quốc gia đã cấm ống hút nhựa. (Many countries have banned plastic straws.)
- Pipet (n): The direct loanword for the laboratory instrument, synonymous with the scientific meaning of "ống hút".
Synonyms
- Straw: For the drinking utensil.
- Pipette: For the laboratory tool.
- Drinking tube: A more formal term for a straw.
Related Idioms
- Uống cho đến khi ống hút kêu "xùy": To drink until the straw makes a slurping sound (meaning to drink until the very last drop).