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Kettle vs Brick - What's the difference?

kettle | brick |

As a noun kettle

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

As a verb kettle

is (british|of the police) to contain demonstrators in a confined area.

As a proper noun brick is

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kettle

English

(wikipedia kettle)

Noun

(en noun)
  • 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.
  • The quantity held by a kettle.
  • (British) A vessel for boiling water for tea; a teakettle.
    • Stick the kettle on and we'll have a nice cup of tea.
  • (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 :
    • The term kettle refers to a group of raptors wheeling or circling in a thermal.
  • * 2010 , Jean-Luc E. Cartron, Raptors of New Mexico :
    • Kettles can consist of thousands of birds migrating together.
  • (rail transport, slang) A steam locomotive
  • (musical instruments) A kettledrum.

    • 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 kettle

    See also

    *

    Verb

    (kettl)
  • (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:
    • ... 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

    brick

    English

    Noun

  • (countable) A hardened rectangular block of mud, clay etc., used for building.
    • This wall is made of bricks .
  • (uncountable) Considered collectively, as a building material.
    • This house is made of brick .
  • (countable) Something shaped like a brick.
    • a plastic explosive brick
  • (dated) A helpful and reliable person.
    • Thanks for helping me wash the car. You're a brick .
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  • (basketball, slang) A shot which misses, particularly one which bounces directly out of the basket because of a too-flat trajectory, as if the ball were a heavier object.
    • We can't win if we keep throwing up bricks from three-point land.
  • (informal) A power brick; an external power supply consisting of a small box with an integral male power plug and an attached electric cord terminating in another power plug.
  • (technology, slang) An electronic device, especially a heavy box-shaped one, that has become non-functional or obsolete.
  • (firearms) a carton of 500 rimfire cartridges, which forms the approximate size and shape of a brick.
  • (poker slang) A community card (usually the turn or the river) which does not improve a player's hand.

    • Derived terms

    * brick in one's hat * brickie * bricklayer * bricks and mortar * bricks and clicks * brick shithouse * drop a brick * hit the bricks * like a cat on a hot brick * like a ton of bricks * make bricks without straw * make bricks without straws * run into a brick wall * shit a brick * shit bricks * take to the bricks * talk to a brick wall * thick as a brick

    Adjective

    (-)
  • Made of brick(s).
    • All that was left after the fire was the brick chimney .

    Derived terms

    * brick shithouse

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To build with bricks.
  • * 1904 , Thomas Hansom Cockin, An Elementary Class-Book of Practical Coal-Mining , C. Lockwood and Son, page 78
    • If the ground is strong right up to the surface, a few yards are usually sunk and bricked before the engines and pit top are erected
  • * 1914 , The Mining Engineer , Institution of Mining Engineers, page 349
    • The shaft was next bricked between the decks until the top scaffold was supported by the brickwork and [made] to share the weight with the prids.
  • To make into bricks.
  • * 1904 September 15, James C. Bennett, Walter Renton Ingalls (editor), Lead Smelting and Refining with Some Notes on Lead Mining (1906), The Engineering and Mining Journal, page 66
    • The plant, which is here described, for bricking fine ores and flue dust, was designed and the plans produced in the engineering department of the Selby smelter.
  • (slang) To hit someone or something with a brick.
  • To make an electronic device nonfunctional and usually beyond repair, essentially making it no more useful than a brick.
    • My VCR was bricked during the lightning storm .
  • * 2007 December 14, Joe Barr, “PacketProtector turns SOHO router into security powerhouse”, Linux.com
    • installing third-party firmware will void your warranty, and it is possible that you may brick your router.

    Antonyms

    * unbrick

    Derived terms

    * bricker * brick in * brick over * brick up * brick it

    See also

    * brickfielder

    External links

    * (wikipedia "brick") ----