kettle

hervidor, tetera

Recipiente o aparato eléctrico para hervir agua, sobre todo para preparar té o café.

En inglés sencillo: 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?

Sinónimos: teakettle

Expresiones frecuentes: electric kettle, boil the kettle, fill the kettle

olla, caldero

Recipiente grande, normalmente de metal y con tapa, para hervir líquidos o cocinar alimentos.

En inglés sencillo: 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.

Sinónimos: pot, cauldron

Expresiones frecuentes: soup kettle, iron kettle, kettle of soup

depresión glaciar

Hueco en el terreno que suele formarse al derretirse un bloque de hielo enterrado.

En inglés sencillo: 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.

Sinónimos: kettle hole, pothole

Expresiones frecuentes: kettle hole, kettle lake, glacial kettle

bandada de rapaces

Grupo de halcones u otras aves parecidas que vuelan en círculos juntos aprovechando el aire caliente que asciende.

En inglés sencillo: 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.

Cómo se usa: kettle of hawks/raptors (A kettle of hawks rose above the hill.)

Expresiones frecuentes: kettle of hawks, kettle of raptors, soaring kettle

locomotora de vapor

Máquina que funciona con vapor y arrastra los vagones de un tren.

En inglés sencillo: 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.

Sinónimos: steam locomotive, steam engine

Expresiones frecuentes: old kettle, steam kettle, railway kettle

timbal

Tambor grande de cuerpo metálico redondeado, que se toca con baquetas en una orquesta.

En inglés sencillo: 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.

Sinónimos: kettledrum, timpani

Expresiones frecuentes: orchestral kettle, strike a kettle, tune a kettle