kettle
See also: Kettle
English
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Pronunciation
[edit]- enPR: kĕt'(ə)l, IPA(key): /ˈkɛ.təl/, [ˈkʰɛtᵊɫ̩]
- (US) IPA(key): /ˈkɛ.təl/, [ˈkʰɛɾɫ̩]
- (dated, regional US) IPA(key): /ˈkɪtəl/[1]
- (Indic) IPA(key): /ˈkɛʈɪl/, /-əl/
- Rhymes: -ɛtəl
Etymology 1
[edit]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. Usually regarded as a borrowing of Late Latin catīllus (“small bowl”), diminutive of Latin catinus (“deep bowl, vessel for cooking up or serving food”), however, the word may be Germanic confused with the Latin: compare Old English cete (“cooking pot”), Old High German chezzi (“a kettle, dish, bowl”), Icelandic kati, ketla (“a small boat”). Cognate with West Frisian tsjettel (“kettle”), Dutch ketel (“kettle”), German Kessel (“kettle”), Swedish kittel (“cauldron”), Swedish kittel (“kettle”), Gothic 𐌺𐌰𐍄𐌹𐌻𐍃 (katils, “kettle”), Finnish kattila, Polish kocioł (“cauldron”), Czech kotel (“boiler”), Russian котёл (kotjól, “boiler, cauldron”).[2]
(watch): Cockney rhyming slang from 'kettle and hob' to 'fob' (fob watch).
Noun
[edit]kettle (plural kettles)
- (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.
- The quantity held by a kettle.
- A vessel or appliance used to boil water for the preparation of hot beverages and other foodstuffs.
- Synonym: teakettle
- Stick the kettle on and we'll have a nice cup of tea.
- (geology) A kettle hole, sometimes any pothole.
- (ornithology, collective) A group of raptors riding a thermal, especially when migrating.
- a kettle of hawks
- 2010, Jean-Luc E. Cartron, Raptors of New Mexico:
- Kettles can consist of thousands of birds migrating together.
- (rail transport, slang) A steam locomotive
- (music) A kettledrum.
- An instance of kettling; a group of protesters or rioters confined in a limited area.
- (slang) A watch (timepiece).
- A bucket for holding a quantity of paint during the painting process.
Usage notes
[edit]In most varieties of English outside the United States (UK, Irish, Australian, New Zealand, Canadian), if not specified otherwise, kettle usually refers to a vessel or appliance used to boil water.
Derived terms
[edit]- a watched kettle never boils
- cat calling the kettle black
- cheese kettle
- coffee-kettle
- fish kettle
- giant kettle
- giant's kettle
- kettlebell
- kettlebelly
- kettle bottom
- kettle cable
- kettle chip
- kettle corn
- kettle drum
- kettle-drum
- kettleful
- kettle fur collector
- kettle hat
- kettle helmet
- kettle hole
- kettle lake
- kettle lead
- kettlelike
- kettle logic
- kettle of fish
- kettle-pin
- kettler
- kettle stitch
- kettle trap
- lunch kettle
- potash kettle
- pot calling the kettle black
- storm in a tea-kettle
- tea-kettle
- teakettle, tea kettle
- tempest in a tea-kettle
Descendants
[edit]Translations
[edit]vessel for boiling a liquid or cooking food
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quantity held by a kettle
teakettle — see teakettle
pothole — see pothole
steam locomotive — see steam locomotive
kettledrum — see kettledrum
kettle hole — see kettle hole
Verb
[edit]kettle (third-person singular simple present kettles, present participle kettling, simple past and past participle kettled)
- (originally British, of the police) To contain demonstrators in a confined area.
- 2009 April 2, John O'Connor, “G20: The upside of kettling: The Guardian”, in The Guardian[2]:
- Life for senior officers has been made much easier by the use of counter-terrorism powers, which enable them to contain demonstrators for hours in a confined spot. This tactic, known as kettling, is seen by some as an attempt to prevent people lawfully demonstrating.
- 2011 October 12, Gregory Djerejian, “This Ain't No Tea Party: A Conservative Defense of Occupy Wall Street”, in The Atlantic[3]:
- A couple of the initial pepper spray incidents went viral on YouTube, one showing very young women screaming hysterically while penned—or is the term for this ‘kettled’?—by bright orange police mesh.
- (intransitive) Of a boiler: to make a whistling sound like the boiling of a kettle, indicative of various types of fault.
Translations
[edit]Further reading
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kettle on Wikipedia.Wikipedia - kettle (birds) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
Etymology 2
[edit]Noun
[edit]kettle (plural kettles)
- Alternative form of kiddle (“kind of fishweir”).
References
[edit]- ^ Kurath, Hans; McDavid, Raven I., Jr. (1961), The pronunciation of English in the Atlantic States: based upon the collections of the linguistic atlas of the Eastern United States[1], Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, →ISBN, →OCLC, § 5.2, page 133.
- ^ Oxford English Dictionary 2ed. "kettle"
Turkish
[edit]Alternative forms
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Unadapted borrowing from English kettle.
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]kettle (definite accusative kettleı, plural kettlelar)
- kettle (vessel for boiling a liquid or cooking food)
- Synonyms: kazan, ketıl, su ısıtıcısı, su kaynatıcısı
Declension
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