- ket‧tle [countable]
- 1
a container with a lid, a handle, and a spout, used for boiling and pouring water [= teakettle American English] - She filled the kettle and switched it on.
- The kettle's boiling (=the water in it is boiling).
Put the kettle on (=start boiling water in a kettle) will you? - 2 American English
a large pot, used for making soup - 3
another/a different kettle of fish
- informal
used to say that a situation is very different from one that you have just mentioned : - She enjoys public speaking but being on TV is a different kettle of fish.
- Definition from the Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
- Advanced Learner's Dictionary.
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Friday, May 6, 2011
Essential daily English vocabulary with pictures. Kettle. 05/06/2011.(06-05-2011).
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