Kettle vs Boiler - What's the difference?
kettle | boiler |
A vessel for boiling a liquid or cooking food, usually metal and equipped with a lid.
The quantity held by a kettle.
(British) A vessel for boiling water for tea; a teakettle.
(geology) A kettle hole, sometimes any pothole.
(Raptors) (ornithology) A collective term for a group of raptors riding a thermal, especially when migrating.
* 2006 , Keith L. Bildstein, Migrating Raptors of the World: Their Ecology & Conservation - Page 76 :
* 2010 , Jean-Luc E. Cartron, Raptors of New Mexico :
(rail transport, slang) A steam locomotive
(musical instruments) A kettledrum.
(British, of the police) To contain demonstrators in a confined area.
* 2009 , John O'Connor, G20: The upside of kettling , Guardian, pages http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/libertycentral/2009/apr/02/police-g20-protest-kettling:
An apparatus that generates heat (usually by burning fuel) and uses it to heat circulating water (or sometimes another liquid) in a closed system that is then used for space heating, swimming pool heating, or domestic hot water or industrial processes.
Less commonly , a hot water heater.
(approximate definition'') A fuel burning apparatus in which water is boiled to produce steam for space heating, power generation, or industrial processes.
(''more precisely'') An apparatus in which a heat source other than a hot liquid or steam (most commonly burning fuel, exhaust gas from an internal combustion engine or gas turbine, waste heat from a process, solar energy or electricity) is used to boil water (or ''rarely another liquid), under pressure to provide steam (or other gas) for use as a heat source in calorifiers, heat exchangers or heat emitters, or for use directly for humidification, in an industrial process, or to power steam turbines.
A kitchen vessel for steaming or boiling food.
(UK, informal) A tough old chicken only suitable for cooking by boiling.
(rare, informal) Boilerplate.
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As nouns the difference between kettle and boiler
is that kettle is a vessel for boiling a liquid or cooking food, usually metal and equipped with a lid while boiler is an apparatus that generates heat (usually by burning fuel) and uses it to heat circulating water (or sometimes another liquid) in a closed system that is then used for space heating, swimming pool heating, or domestic hot water or industrial processes or boiler can be (rare|informal) boilerplate.As a verb kettle
is (british|of the police) to contain demonstrators in a confined area.kettle
English
(wikipedia kettle)Noun
(en noun)- To cook pasta, you first need to put the kettle on.
- There's a hot kettle of soup on the stove.
- Stick the kettle on and we'll have a nice cup of tea.
- The term kettle refers to a group of raptors wheeling or circling in a thermal.
- Kettles can consist of thousands of birds migrating together.
Usage notes
In most varieties of English outside the United States (UK, Irish, Australian, New Zealand, Canadian), if not specified otherwise, the kettle usually refers to a vessel for boiling the water for tea.Derived terms
* kettle of fish * teakettle or tea kettleSee also
*Verb
(kettl)- ... to contain demonstrators for hours in a confined spot. This tactic, known as kettling , is seen by some as an attempt to prevent people lawfully demonstrating.
References
boiler
English
Etymology 1
Noun
(en noun)(''more precisely'') An apparatus in which a heat source other than a hot liquid or steam (most commonly burning fuel, exhaust gas from an internal combustion engine or gas turbine, waste heat from a process, solar energy or electricity) is used to boil water (or ''rarely another liquid), under pressure to provide steam (or other gas) for use as a heat source in calorifiers, heat exchangers or heat emitters, or for use directly for humidification, in an industrial process, or to power steam turbines.
Derived terms
(terms derived from boiler) * boil * boiled * boilerplate * boiler room * boiling * boiling plate * donkey boiler * double boiler * steam boilerSee also
* steam generator * water heaterEtymology 2
Shortening ofNoun
Re: Forms4 boilerplate accessible?", in comp.databases.oracle, Usenet :
- While it appears the FRM40_TEXT table is the answer, saving a form with boiler text does not seem to insert into this table.
Re: Why don't more people hate Bush?", in alt.politics.democrats and other newsgroups, Usenet :
- Note that Stuart Grey makes the assertion: "I think rationally on all subjects.", and then proceeds to use the standard boiler tactics and phrases of the people WHO instigate conflict and war.
Re: NRA vs Bar Assoc over guns in cars", in tx.guns, Usenet :
- Nearly every employer in my field has similar terms (they all come out of a legal boiler mill somewhere).
Re: Mail merge to PDF", in microsoft.public.access, Usenet :
- Just aligning all the paragraphs of '
boiler text' is tedious but trying to insert values in alignment is impossible!