Spatula vs. Turner — What's the Difference?
Difference Between Spatula and Turner
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Spatula
A spatula is a broad, flat, flexible blade used to mix, spread and lift material including foods, drugs, plaster and paints. In medical applications, "spatula" may also be used synonymously with tongue depressor.The word spatula derives from the Latin word for a flat piece of wood or splint, a diminutive form of the Latin spatha, meaning 'broadsword', and hence can also refer to a tongue depressor.
Turner
One that turns, especially a person who operates a lathe or similar device.
Spatula
A small implement having a straight handle and a broad, flexible blade that is used to mix or spread semiliquid substances
Used a spatula to apply the joint compound.
Turner
A gymnast or tumbler, especially a member of a turnverein.
Spatula
A small implement having an angled handle and a broad, flat blade that is used in cooking or serving food
Flipped the pancakes with a spatula.
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Turner
One who or that which turns.
Spatula
Chiefly British A tongue depressor.
Turner
A person who turns and shapes wood etc. on a lathe
Spatula
A kitchen utensil consisting of a flat surface attached to a long handle, used for turning, lifting, or stirring food.
Turner
A kitchen utensil used for turning food.
Spatula
(North America) A kitchen utensil consisting of a flexible surface attached to a long handle, used for scraping the sides of bowls.
Turner
(zoology) A variety of pigeon; a tumbler.
Spatula
(dated) A palette knife.
Turner
(cricket) A very dry pitch on which the ball will turn with ease.
Spatula
(chemistry) A thin hand tool, often made of nickel, for handling chemicals or other materials, when weighing, etc.
Turner
An acrobat or gymnast, especially (historical) a member of the German Turnvereine, German-American gymnastic clubs that also served as nationalist political groups.
Spatula
A croupier's tool for turning up cards in a casino.
Turner
(sports) A person who practices athletic or gymnastic exercises.
Spatula
(entomology) A sclerotized, T-shaped plate in the prothorax of larvae of flies belonging to family Cecidomyiidae, the gall midges.
Turner
One who turns; especially, one whose occupation is to form articles with a lathe.
Spatula
(transitive) To lift with or as if with a spatula.
Turner
A variety of pigeon; a tumbler.
Spatula
(transitive) To strike with a spatula.
Turner
A person who practices athletic or gymnastic exercises.
Spatula
An implement shaped like a knife, flat, thin, and somewhat flexible, used for spreading paints, fine plasters, drugs in compounding prescriptions, etc. Cf. Palette knife, under Palette.
Turner
United States slave and insurrectionist who in 1831 led a rebellion of slaves in Virginia; he was captured and executed (1800-1831)
Spatula
A turner with a narrow flexible blade
Turner
United States endocrinologist (1892-1970)
Spatula
A hand tool with a thin flexible blade used to mix or spread soft substances
Turner
English landscape painter whose treatment of light and color influenced the French impressionists (1775-1851)
Turner
United States historian who stressed the role of the western frontier in American history (1861-1951)
Turner
A tumbler who is a member of a turnverein
Turner
A lathe operator
Turner
Cooking utensil having a flat flexible part and a long handle; used for turning or serving food
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