kettle

bouilloire

Récipient ou appareil électrique servant à faire bouillir de l’eau, notamment pour le thé ou le café.

En anglais simple : A container or electric appliance used to boil water, especially for making tea or coffee.

• Fill the kettle with water.
• I boiled the kettle to make tea.
• Has the kettle switched itself off?

Synonymes : teakettle

Expressions courantes : electric kettle, boil the kettle, fill the kettle

marmite, chaudron

Grand récipient, généralement en métal avec un couvercle, servant à faire bouillir des liquides ou à cuire des aliments.

En anglais simple : A large pot, usually made of metal and with a lid, for boiling liquids or cooking food.

• The soup bubbled in the kettle.
• He cooked beans in a large iron kettle.
• They lifted the heavy kettle off the fire.

Synonymes : pot, cauldron

Expressions courantes : soup kettle, iron kettle, kettle of soup

dépression glaciaire

Creux dans le sol, souvent formé par la fonte d’un bloc de glace enfoui.

En anglais simple : A hollow in the ground, often left when buried ice melts.

• Water collected in the kettle.
• A melting block of ice left this kettle.
• Several deep kettles formed across the glacial landscape.

Synonymes : kettle hole, pothole

Expressions courantes : kettle hole, kettle lake, glacial kettle

vol de rapaces

Groupe de rapaces qui tournent ensemble dans les courants d’air chaud ascendants.

En anglais simple : A group of hawks or similar birds circling together in rising warm air.

• A kettle of hawks circled overhead.
• We watched the kettle rise on warm air.
• Several kettles of migrating raptors passed above the valley.

Comment l'utiliser : kettle of hawks/raptors (A kettle of hawks rose above the hill.)

Expressions courantes : kettle of hawks, kettle of raptors, soaring kettle

locomotive à vapeur

Machine qui fonctionne à la vapeur et tire les wagons d’un train.

En anglais simple : A steam engine that pulls railway carriages.

• The old kettle pulled into the station.
• Railway fans photographed the kettle beside the platform.
• Two kettles hauled the train up the hill.

Synonymes : steam locomotive, steam engine

Expressions courantes : old kettle, steam kettle, railway kettle

timbale

Grand tambour au corps métallique arrondi, joué avec des baguettes dans un orchestre.

En anglais simple : A large drum with a rounded metal body, played with sticks in an orchestra.

• The player struck the kettle.
• Two kettles stood at the back of the orchestra.
• He tuned each kettle before the concert began.

Synonymes : kettledrum, timpani

Expressions courantes : orchestral kettle, strike a kettle, tune a kettle