Kettle vs. Jug — What's the Difference?

A kettle, sometimes called a tea kettle or teakettle, is a type of pot specialized for boiling water, with a lid, spout, and handle, or a small kitchen appliance of similar shape that functions in a self-contained manner. Kettles can be heated either by placing on a stove, or by their own internal electric heating element in the appliance versions.

A jug is a type of container commonly used to hold liquids. It has an opening, sometimes narrow, from which to pour or drink, and has a handle, and often a pouring lip.

A container or device in which water is boiled, having a lid, spout, and handle.

A large, often rounded vessel of earthenware, glass, or metal with a small mouth, a handle, and usually a stopper or cap.

A small area in which demonstrators or protesters are confined by police seeking to maintain order during a demonstration

The amount that a jug can hold.

(of the police) confine (a group of demonstrators or protesters) to a small area, as a method of crowd control during a demonstration

A small pitcher.

A metal pot, usually with a lid, for boiling or stewing.

(Slang) A jail.

A teakettle.

Jugs Vulgar Slang A woman's breasts.

(Music) A kettledrum.

To stew (a hare, for example) in an earthenware jug or jar.

(Geology) A depression left in a mass of glacial drift, formed by the melting of an isolated block of glacial ice.

(Slang) To put into jail.

A pothole.

A serving vessel or container, typically circular in cross-section and typically higher than it is wide, with a relatively small mouth or spout, an ear handle and often a stopper or top.

A group of flying raptors, especially when ascending in a rising current of warm air.

The amount that a jug can hold.

To fly on a rising current of warm air. Used of birds

(slang) Jail.

Chiefly British To confine or corral (a group of people) to an enclosed area as a means of crowd control

A woman's breasts.

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

(New Zealand) An upright electric kettle.

The quantity held by a kettle.

A kind of large, high-powered vacuum tube.

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

(climbing) A hold large enough for both hands

(geology) A kettle hole, sometimes any pothole.

A small mixed breed of dog created by mating a Jack Russell terrier and a pug.

A group of raptors riding a thermal, especially when migrating.

After-school student punishment

A steam locomotive

(transitive) To stew in an earthenware jug etc.

(musical instruments) A kettledrum.

To put into jail.

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

(intransitive) To utter a sound like "jug", as certain birds do, especially the nightingale.

To contain demonstrators in a confined area.

To nestle or collect together in a covey.

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

To issue a detention (to a student)

A metallic vessel, with a wide mouth, often without a cover, used for heating and boiling water or other liguids.

A vessel, usually of coarse earthenware, with a swelling belly and narrow mouth, and having a handle on one side.

A metal pot for stewing or boiling; usually has a lid

A pitcher; a ewer.

The quantity a kettle will hold

A prison; a jail; a lockup.

(geology) a hollow (typically filled by a lake) that results from the melting of a mass of ice trapped in glacial deposits

A woman's breasts; as, nice jugs.

A large hemispherical brass or copper percussion instrument with a drumhead that can be tuned by adjusting the tension on it

To seethe or stew, as in a jug or jar placed in boiling water; as, to jug a hare.

To commit to jail; to imprison.

To utter a sound resembling this word, as certain birds do, especially the nightingale.

To nestle or collect together in a covey; - said of quails and partridges.

A large bottle with a narrow mouth

The quantity contained in a jug

Lock up or confine, in or as in a jail;

Stew in an earthenware jug;