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kettle

/ket-l/US // ˈkɛt l //UK // (ˈkɛtəl) //

水壶,釜,壶,釜子

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Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : a metal container in which to boil liquids, cook foods, etc.; pot.
    • : a teakettle.
    • : a kettledrum.
    • : Geology. kettle hole.

Phrases

  • kettle of fish
  • pot calling the kettle black

Synonyms & Antonyms

Examples

  • She trusts the open kettle or her version of it, which she refers to as the “heat sterilization fill” approach.

  • Imagine if you could power your kettle using the energy generated from the vegetable cuttings quietly breaking down in your kitchen’s compost bin.

  • Copper pendants seem to have been made from kettles and pots.

  • Kelley-Chung says that’s when an officer carrying zip ties said he had to arrest someone, before looking directly at him, grabbing him, and pulling him out of the kettle.

  • I used an electric kettle, but a stove-heated kettle or pot will work, too.

  • The kettle was adamantly calling the pot black as Netanyahu accused Iran of doing all sorts of shady things with nuclear power.

  • The Nazi-hunting era that began with the thunder of a kettle drum at the Nuremberg trials in 1945 ended with a whimper in 2011.

  • Electric kettle  Like many Americans who have spent time living in the UK, while I was there I fell in love with electric kettles.

  • I could hear Eliza downstairs, filling up another kettle for tea.

  • She got an electric kettle and plugged it in, transferring a teapot of hot water into the tub.

  • Roulard had played the trumpet in the regimental band in which Aristide had played the kettle drum.

  • One evening at tea, a copper kettle, with hot water, stood on the hob.

  • Mother would want some tea by and by, if she worked late into the evening, and Jess drew the kettle forward.

  • Jess made a cushion for it out of grass and laid it on top of the kettle full of treasures.

  • The big kettle, empty and clean, was hung over the low fire and butter was dropped in.