noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
electric light/kettle/cooker etc
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the heat from a small electric fire
fish kettle
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
black
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In one corner stood a gas-stove on which a black kettle simmered gently.
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She filled the big, black kettle and set it over the burner.
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BDownstairs, at the neighboring La Colonial Market, an employee barbecues chicken in a black kettle on the sidewalk.
different
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It was soon clear that this was an entirely different kettle of fish.
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Tonally the Atlantis is a different kettle of fish from any Rick I've ever played before.
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The other envelope, however, was a different kettle of fish.
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Hamsters, on the other hand, are a different kettle of piranhas altogether.
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The Schaubu hne is a different kettle of fish.
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Miss Braithwaite was clearly a different kettle of fish from the other Deaconess he'd met, Miss Tilley.
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Whether or not he would ever admit it was a different kettle of fish entirely.
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But the wilful destruction of young lives was a different kettle of fish altogether.
electric
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Yawning freely, he filled the electric kettle with water and switched it on.
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You can buy a new electric tea kettle featuring easy-to-dismember recyclable parts.
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She had not noticed Amy filling and plugging in an electric kettle , but it was singing efficiently next to the cooker.
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Steven loved gadgets, and Jean had one of the latest square white plastic electric kettles .
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The black markets proffer Levis, pirated rave music and electric kettles .
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The prosecution alleges Hammond attacked the girl with his hands, fists, a ruler and the flex from an electric kettle .
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But no sooner had she switched on the electric kettle than the phone began to ring.
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That, and the electric kettle , given to me by a good friend, are a great blessing.
■ VERB
boil
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Nora objects, it's been nothing but ringing phones and boiling kettles , doorbells and toilets, since you began.
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While she was making the coffee, boiling her kettle , he glanced across at her Herald Tribune.
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Oh, to boil a kettle on red-hot rock.
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And I was impressed that a Harley Street gynaecologist was prepared to boil his own kettle .
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They boiled the kettle for coffee and cleared a space on the other end of Kenneth's desk.
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He boils a kettle and pours it in to make the water very hot.
fill
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She filled the kettle and set it to boil.
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Marion filled the kettle and plugged it in.
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Go and fill the kettle to celebrate.
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Quickly while the toilet was still flushing, Philip filled the kettle .
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My breath was like dragon smoke as I filled the kettle .
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Turning away from him, she filled the kettle and set it on the stove.
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Turning away he filled the kettle with water.
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She filled the kettle from the freshwater tap, then took a box of chilled orange juice from the well-stocked ice-box.
put
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Perhaps I'd better put the kettle on and crack open a packet of my finest custard creams.
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Rain again! he thought, as he put the tea kettle on.
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She smiled and went and put the kettle on, and listened as he wriggled like a worm on a hook.
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Calling to Lizzie to put the kettle oD, she hurried out to the hammock and spread herself there to wait.
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Wearily she put on the kettle for the tea.
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Two hours later, he put the kettle on to boil.
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She put on the kettle , craving her morning cup of coffee.
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They'd even gone to the trouble of putting the kettle on.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
(a case of) the pot calling the kettle black
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It was a bit like the pot calling the kettle black.