kettle

noun · verbA2

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noun

Plural noun:

kettles

1.
(cooking) A vessel for boiling a liquid or cooking food, usually metal and equipped with a lid.
To cook pasta, you first need to put the kettle on.
There's a hot kettle of soup on the stove.
2.
The quantity held by a kettle.
3.
A vessel or appliance used to boil water for the preparation of hot beverages and other foodstuffs.
Stick the kettle on and we'll have a nice cup of tea.
Đồng nghĩa: teakettle
4.
(geology) A kettle hole, sometimes any pothole.
5.
(collective)(ornithology, collective) A group of raptors riding a thermal, especially when migrating.
a kettle of hawks
6.
(slang)(rail transport, slang) A steam locomotive.
7.
(music) A kettledrum.
8.
An instance of kettling; a group of protesters or rioters confined in a limited area.
9.
(slang)A watch (timepiece).
10.
A bucket for holding a quantity of paint during the painting process.
11.
(military) A type of encirclement.
Near-synonym: cauldron
Đồng nghĩa: cauldron
12.
(abbreviation, alt of, ellipsis, figuratively)(figurative) Ellipsis of kettle of fish.
Near-synonyms: cauldron, pickle; see also Thesaurus:difficult situation
Well, we're really in a kettle now, aren't we?
Đồng nghĩa: cauldron, pickle, ass in a sling, bind, bucket of syrup, calvary, cauldron, cross, cross to bear, difficulty, dilemma, dire straits, doghouse, fix, hole, jam, kettle, kettle of fish, ordeal, pickle, pinch, plight, predicament, quandary, quagmire, situation, spot, spot of bother, sticky situation, sticky wicket, tight spot, trouble

Động từ

verb

V_es/s

kettles

V_ing/Gerund

kettling

V_ed/pp

kettled

1.
(originally British, of the police) To contain demonstrators in a confined area.
2.
(intransitive)Of a boiler: to make a whistling sound like the boiling of a kettle, indicative of various types of fault.

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Đồng nghĩa

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Nguồn gốc từ

From Middle English ketel, also chetel, from Old English ċietel (kettle, cauldron) and in Middle English possibly influenced by Old Norse ketill and both from Proto-Germanic *katilaz (kettle, bucket, vessel), of uncertain origin and formation.