utensil

See also: Utensil

English

Etymology

From Middle English utensyl, from Old French utensile, from Latin ūtēnsilis (“useful, usable”).

Pronunciation

• (UK, US) IPA^(key): /juˈtɛn.səl/

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• Rhymes: -ɛnsəl
• Hyphenation: u‧ten‧sil

Noun

utensil (plural utensils)

1. An instrument or device for domestic use, especially in the kitchen.

   We have convenient storage for all the kitchen utensils.

2. A useful small tool, implement, or vessel.
   • 1954, Tom Lehrer (lyrics and music), “A Christmas Carol”:

     Relations, sparing no expense'll/Send some useless old utensil,/Or a matching pen and pencil./"just the thing I need! how nice!"

   He stocked up on old-style writing utensils.

Quotations

• For quotations using this term, see Citations:utensil.

Synonyms

• See also Thesaurus:instrument

Translations

device for domestic use, in the kitchen, or in war

• Bulgarian: при́бор (bg) m (príbor), съд (bg) m (sǎd)
• Catalan: utensili (ca) m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: please add this translation if you can

• Danish: redskab (da) c
• Dutch: gereedschap (nl), gerei (nl)
• Finnish: tarvike (fi), tarvekalu (fi); kalusto (fi) (mass noun)
• French: ustensile (fr)
• German: Gerät (de) n
• Greek: σκεύος (el) n (skévos), σύνεργο (el) n (sýnergo), εργαλείο (el) n (ergaleío)
• Ido: utensilo (io)
• Italian: utensile (it) m, stoviglia (it) f
• Latin: instrūmentum (la) n
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: redskap (no) m or n

  Nynorsk: reiskap m

• Polish: sprzęt kuchenny m
• Portuguese: utensílio (pt) m
• Romanian: ustensilă (ro) f
• Russian: посу́да (ru) f (posúda), у́тварь (ru) f (útvarʹ)
• Slovak: riad m
• Spanish: utensilio (es) m
• Tagalog: lalanghutan (kitchen), kakamangan (household)
• Tamil: ஏனம் (ta) (ēṉam)
• Telugu: గృహోపకరణము (te) (gr̥hōpakaraṇamu)

small implement specialized for certain types of processing

• Catalan: utensili (ca) m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: please add this translation if you can

• Dutch: benodigdheden (nl) m pl
• Finnish: työväline (fi), väline (fi)
• Galician: utensilio (gl) m
• German: Gerät (de) n
• Greek: σύνεργο (el) n (sýnergo), εργαλείο (el) n (ergaleío)
• Indonesian: perkakas (id)
• Latin: instrūmentum (la) n
• Russian: инструме́нт (ru) m (instrumént), ору́дие (ru) n (orúdije), (device) прибо́р (ru) m (pribór)
• Telugu: ఉపకరణము (te) (upakaraṇamu)

The translations below need to be checked and inserted above into the appropriate translation tables. See instructions at Wiktionary:Entry layout § Translations.

Translations to be checked

• French: ^{(please verify)} ustensile de cuisine (fr)
• German: ^{(please verify)} Utensil (de) n
• Tibetan: ^{(please verify)} ཉེར་སྤྱད (nyer spyad)

Further reading

• utensil on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• utensil at OneLook Dictionary Search

Anagrams

• luniest, luteins, sultine, untiles