Saturday , 23 November 2024

Ladle meaning

Noun: ladle

Pronunciation: (ley-d(u)l)

Ladle meaning:

  • Spoon shaped vessels with a long handle; frequently used to transfer liquids from one container to another.

Verb: ladle

Pronunciation: (ley-d(u)l)

Ladle meaning:

  1. Put a liquid into a container by means of a ladle.
  2. Remove with or as if with a ladle. Synonyms: lade, laden

ladle meaning

Quotations: Robert Browning – Rats! They fought the dogs and killed the cats, and bit the babies in the cradles, and ate the cheeses out of the vats, and licked the soup from the cooks’ own ladles, split open the kegs of salted sprats, made nests inside men’s Sunday hats, and eve.

Richard Neutra – I am an eyewitness to the ways in which people relate to themselves and to each other, and my work is a way of scooping and ladling that experience.

Robert Rubin – Fiscal policy is the other ladle in the macroeconomic punch bowl, and consistency in use of the two ladles is powerful, and inconsistency can be injurious.

Jane Bryant Quinn – Everyone can get a little sloppy with cash and it’s smart to notice. But what’s squeezing you is the big stuff you ladle onto your credit cards.

Tom Robbins – Those who possess wisdom cannot just ladle it out to every want wit and jackanapes who comes along and asks for it. A person must be prepared to receive wisdom, or else it will do him more harm than good. Moreover, a lout thrashing about in the clear waters of wisdom will dirty those waters for everyone else.

Sample sentences:

  1. We need to kick up our production from a stovetop, ladle and funnel-filling bottles.
  2. As you can see, I’m a button-moulder. You must go into my casting ladle.
  3. Please ladle soup into the bowl.
  4. Ladle the water out of the bowl.
  5. If you can’t tell a spoon from a ladle, then you’re fat.
  6. My heart is a ladle of sweet water brimming over.
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