Meaning

(cooking) A vessel for boiling a liquid or cooking food, usually metal and equipped with a lid..

Definitions by Sense

1. (cooking) A vessel for boiling a liquid or cooking food, usually metal and equipped with a lid.
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.
4. (geology) A kettle hole, sometimes any pothole.
5. (ornithology, collective) A group of raptors riding a thermal, especially when migrating.
6. (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.

Example Sentences

To cook pasta, you first need to put the kettle on.

There's a hot kettle of soup on the stove.

Stick the kettle on and we'll have a nice cup of tea.

a kettle of hawks

Kettles can consist of thousands of birds migrating together.

Near-synonym: cauldron

Near-synonyms: cauldron, pickle; see also Thesaurus:difficult situation

Well, we're really in a kettle now, aren't we?

Word Forms

• kettles
• kettling
• kettled

Synonyms for kettle

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When Should You Use Kettle?

Use kettle when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.

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