英语词汇“kettle”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组-英语词典

ket·tle

(kĕtl)

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

2. A teakettle.

3. Music A kettledrum.

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

5. A pothole.

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

v. ket·tled, ket·tling, ket·tles

v.intr.

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

v.tr.

Chiefly BritishTo 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.

[Middle English ketel, from Old Norse ketill and Old English cetel, both from Latin catīllus, diminutive of catīnus, large bowl.]

单词	kettle
释义	ket·tle (kĕtl) n. 1. A metal pot, usually with a lid, for boiling or stewing. 2. A teakettle. 3. Music A kettledrum. 4. Geology A depression left in a mass of glacial drift, formed by the melting of an isolated block of glacial ice. 5. A pothole. 6. A group of flying raptors, especially when ascending in a rising current of warm air. v. ket·tled, ket·tling, ket·tles v.intr. To fly on a rising current of warm air. Used of birds: hawks kettling in the distance. v.tr. Chiefly BritishTo 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. [Middle English ketel, from Old Norse ketill and Old English cetel, both from Latin catīllus, diminutive of catīnus, large bowl.]
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