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Kettle

A metallic vessel, with a wide mouth, often without a cover, used for heating and boiling water or other liguids.

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Broader term 3

Hole 76% connected

Whole.

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Hollow 76% connected

Having an empty space or cavity, natural or artificial, within a solid substance; not solid; excavated in the interior; as, a hollow tree; a hollow s…

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Pot 76% connected

A metallic or earthen vessel, appropriated to any of a great variety of uses, as for boiling meat or vegetables, for holding liquids, for plants, etc…

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Narrower term 1

Teakettle 76% connected

A kettle in which water is boiled for making tea, coffee, etc.

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Boil 74% connected

To be agitated, or tumultuously moved, as a liquid by the generation and rising of bubbles of steam (or vapor), or of currents produced by heating it…

oewn 2023 15% interchangeable

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Boil 74% connected

To be agitated, or tumultuously moved, as a liquid by the generation and rising of bubbles of steam (or vapor), or of currents produced by heating it…

oewn 2023 15% interchangeable

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Synonym 5

Boiler 92% connected

One who boils.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Kettledrum 92% connected

A drum made of thin copper in the form of a hemispherical kettle, with parchment stretched over the mouth of it.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Timpani 92% connected

of Timpano

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Tympani 92% connected

of Tympano

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Tympanum 92% connected

The ear drum, or middle ear. Sometimes applied incorrectly to the tympanic membrane. See Ear.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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