Kitchen vs Kitten - What's the difference?
kitchen | kitten |
A room or area for preparing food.
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(African American Vernacular English) The nape of a person's hairline, often referring to its uncombed or "nappy" look.
Cuisine.
(music) The percussion section of an orchestra.
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(dated) A utensil for roasting meat.
A young cat. Diminutive: kitty.
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A young rabbit, rat, hedgehog, squirrel, fox, beaver or badger.
As nouns the difference between kitchen and kitten
is that kitchen is a room or area for preparing food while kitten is a young cat. Diminutive: kitty.As a proper noun Kitchen
is {{surname|lang=en}.As a verb kitten is
to give birth to kittens.kitchen
English
(wikipedia kitchen) (Kitchens)Noun
(en noun)citation, passage=Everything a living animal could do to destroy and to desecrate bed and walls had been done. […] A canister of flour from the kitchen had been thrown at the looking-glass and lay like trampled snow over the remains of a decent blue suit with the lining ripped out which lay on top of the ruin of a plastic wardrobe.}}
- Sir Henry and Umbopo sat conversing in a mixture of broken English and kitchen Zulu, in low voices, but earnestly enough.
- For obvious reasons the percussion is normally arranged along the back of the platform, whether centrally or to one side, and sometimes also in two tiers, the heavy, noisier instruments behind, and the pitched, agile instruments such as vibraphone, marimba, etc. in front. An outstanding exception, however, exists in Roberto Gerhard's Epithalamion where the composer expressly desired that the all-important kitchen department be spread out in front of the strings and hence nearest the audience.
- a tin kitchen
Usage notes
* (area for preparing food) A (term), (term), or the like, or one (term), is one suitable for use in prepared foods.Derived terms
* back kitchen * everything but the kitchen sink * * kitchendom * kitchenette * kitchening * kitchenless * kitchen paper * kitchenry * kitchen supper * kitchen towel * kitchen table software * kitchen utensil * kitchenwareAnagrams
* 1000 English basic wordskitten
English
Noun
(en noun)citation, page= , passage=Jailing her on Wednesday, magistrate Liz Clyne told Robins: "You have shown little remorse either for the death of the kitten or the trauma to your former friend Sarah Knutton." She was also banned from keeping animals for 10 years.}}