Kettlename

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  A surname.

• 2

  An unincorporated community in Cumberland County, Kentucky, United States, named after a creek.

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  An unincorporated community in Roane County, West Virginia, United States, named after a summit.

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  Synonym of Kingskettle, Fife, Scotland.

kettlenoun詞源 1/ˈkɛ.təl/

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  cookingfoodlifestyleA 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.
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  The quantity held by a kettle.

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  A vessel or appliance used to boil water for the preparation of hot beverages and other foodstuffs.

  • Stick the kettle on and we'll have a nice cup of tea.
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  geographygeologynatural-sciencesA kettle hole, sometimes any pothole.

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  biologynatural-sciencesornithologyA group of raptors swirling and spiraling upward as they ride a thermal, especially when migrating.

  • a kettle of hawks
  • Kettles can consist of thousands of birds migrating together.
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  slangrail-transportrailwaystransportA steam locomotive.

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  entertainmentlifestylemusicA kettledrum.

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  An instance of kettling; a group of protesters or rioters confined in a limited area.

kettleverb詞源 1/ˈkɛ.təl/

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  To contain demonstrators in a confined area.

  • 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.
  • 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.
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  Of a boiler: to make a whistling sound like the boiling of a kettle, indicative of various types of fault.

這個拼法也被記錄為下列字的變化形：

• kettle of fish
• kiddle