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kettle

გამოთქმა: /ˈkɛt(ə)l/

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Universal
  • 1a metal or plastic container with a lid, spout, and handle, used for boiling water. See also fish kettle.
  • 2a bowl- or saucer-shaped container in which operations are carried out on metals or other substances with a low melting point.
  • 3chiefly British a small area in which demonstrators or protesters are confined by police seeking to maintain order during a demonstration:activists in the kettle were protesting at being held and resisting arrest

ზმნა

Universal
  • (of the police) confine (a group of demonstrators or protesters) to a small area, as a method of crowd control during a demonstration:the plan was to get as close to the protest as possible without getting kettled (as noun kettling)police were criticized for their use of controversial tactics such as kettling

a different kettle of fish

informal a completely different type of person or thing from the one previously mentioned:he’s certainly a different kettle of fish from old Rowell

the pot calling the kettle black

see pot1.

a pretty (or fine) kettle of fish

informal an awkward state of affairs: when Carla was back in Rome, she found a pretty kettle of fish

kettleful

noun (plural kettlefuls)

სინონიმები

  • boiler
  • eardrum
  • kettle
  • kettle hole
  • kettledrum
  • kettleful
  • middle ear
  • myringa
  • steam boiler
  • timpani
  • tympani
  • tympanic cavity
  • tympanic membrane
  • tympanum