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Kettleful vs. Kettle — What's the Difference?

Kettleful vs. Kettle — What's the Difference?

Difference Between Kettleful and Kettle

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Kettleful

An amount sufficient to fill a kettle, particularly of a kettle used for cooking.

Kettle

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.

Kettleful

The quantity a kettle will hold

Kettle

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

Kettle

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
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Kettle

(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

Kettle

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

Kettle

A teakettle.

Kettle

(Music) A kettledrum.

Kettle

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

Kettle

A pothole.

Kettle

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

Kettle

To fly on a rising current of warm air. Used of birds
Hawks kettling in the distance.

Kettle

Chiefly British To confine or corral (a group of people) to an enclosed area as a means of crowd control
Police kettled the protestors in a parking lot.

Kettle

A 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.

Kettle

The quantity held by a kettle.

Kettle

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.

Kettle

(geology) A kettle hole, sometimes any pothole.

Kettle

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

Kettle

A steam locomotive

Kettle

(musical instruments) A kettledrum.

Kettle

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

Kettle

To contain demonstrators in a confined area.

Kettle

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

Kettle

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

Kettle

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

Kettle

The quantity a kettle will hold

Kettle

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

Kettle

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

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