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teakettle

/tee-ket-l/US // ˈtiˌkɛt l //UK // (ˈtiːˌkɛtəl) //

茶壶,电热水壶,水壶,茶炊

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n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : a portable kettle with a cover, spout, and handle, used for boiling water.

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Examples

  • It’s possible—not certain—that such an imperfection will catch your tip and send you ass over teakettle.

  • Pour a teakettle of boiling water on the horns, holding so as to prevent injury to the other parts.

  • A large, heavy-paper funnel is put in the nose of the teakettle which is boiling on the gas range.

  • When a teakettle boils the water turns to bubbles of vapor and goes up in the air to turn to water again when it gets cold.

  • The water was cold, and the teakettle almost empty, and mutton-chops did make such greasy plates.

  • When Watt sat by the fire watching the steam from the teakettle lift the lid, he was not precisely idle.