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Ladle vs Conch - What's the difference?

ladle | conch |

As nouns the difference between ladle and conch

is that ladle is a deep-bowled spoon with a long, usually curved, handle while conch is a marine gastropod of the family which lives in its own spiral shell.

As verbs the difference between ladle and conch

is that ladle is to serve something with a ladle while conch is to refine the flavour and texture of chocolate by warming and grinding, either in a traditional concher, or between rollers.

ladle

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • A deep-bowled spoon with a long, usually curved, handle.
  • * Boyle
  • When the materials of glass have been kept long in fusion, the mixture casts up the superfluous salt, which the workmen take off with ladles .
  • A container used in a foundry to transport and pour out molten metal.
  • The float of a mill wheel; a ladle board.
  • An instrument for drawing the charge of a cannon.
  • A ring, with a handle or handles fitted to it, for carrying shot.
  • Synonyms

    * (deep-bowled spoon) dipper

    Derived terms

    * frying ladle

    Verb

  • to serve something with a ladle
  • Anagrams

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    conch

    English

    Alternative forms

    * conk

    Noun

    (en-noun)
  • A marine gastropod of the family which lives in its own spiral shell.
  • The shell of this sea animal.
  • A musical instrument made from a large spiral seashell.
  • A machine (rather like a rotating pestle and mortar) used to develop the flavour and texture of chocolate by warming and grinding; a concher or concher machine.
  • Verb

  • To refine the flavour and texture of chocolate by warming and grinding, either in a traditional concher, or between rollers.
  • To play a conch seashell as a musical instrument, by blowing through a hole made close to the origin of the spiral.