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    • 1.3.1 Quotations
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English

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Etymology

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From Middle English utensyl, from Old French utensile, from Latin ūtēnsilis (“useful, usable”).

Pronunciation

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• (UK, US) IPA(key): /juˈtɛn.səl/

• Audio (US):

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• (Philippines) IPA(key): /ˈju.tɛn.sɪl/
• Rhymes: -ɛnsəl
• Hyphenation: u‧ten‧sil

Noun

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utensil (plural utensils)

1. An instrument or device for domestic use, especially in the kitchen. We have convenient storage for all the kitchen/eating utensils.
2. A useful small tool, implement, or vessel. He stocked up on old-style writing utensils.
   • 1954, Tom Lehrer, “A Christmas Carol”:Relations, sparing no expense'll/Send some useless old utensil,/Or a matching pen and pencil./"just the thing I need! how nice!"

Quotations

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• For quotations using this term, see Citations:utensil.

Synonyms

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• See also Thesaurus:instrument

Derived terms

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• cooking utensil

Translations

[edit] device for domestic use, in the kitchen, or in war

Bulgarian: при́бор (bg) m (príbor), съд (bg) m (sǎd) Catalan: utensili (ca) m Chinese: Mandarin: please add this translation if you can Danish: redskab (da) c Dutch: gereedschap (nl), gerei (nl) Finnish: tarvike (fi), tarvekalu (fi); kalusto (fi) (mass noun) French: ustensile (fr) German: Gerät (de) n Greek: σκεύος (el) n (skévos), σύνεργο (el) n (sýnergo), εργαλείο (el) n (ergaleío) Hebrew: כְּלִי (he) m (kli) Hindi: उपकरण (hi) m (upakraṇ) Ido: utensilo (io) Italian: utensile (it) m, stoviglia (it) f Latin: instrūmentum (la) n Norwegian: Bokmål: redskap (no) m or n Nynorsk: reiskap m Polish: sprzęt kuchenny m Portuguese: utensílio (pt) m Romanian: ustensilă (ro) f Russian: посу́да (ru) f (posúda), у́тварь (ru) f (útvarʹ) Slovak: riad m Spanish: utensilio (es) m Swedish: redskap (sv) n Tagalog: lalanghutan (kitchen), kakamangan (household) Tamil: ஏனம் (ta) (ēṉam) Telugu: గృహోపకరణము (te) (gr̥hōpakaraṇamu)

small implement specialized for certain types of processing

Catalan: utensili (ca) m Chinese: Mandarin: please add this translation if you can Dutch: benodigdheden (nl) m pl Finnish: työväline (fi), väline (fi) Galician: utensilio (gl) m German: Gerät (de) n Greek: σύνεργο (el) n (sýnergo), εργαλείο (el) n (ergaleío) Indonesian: perkakas (id) Latin: instrūmentum (la) n Russian: инструме́нт (ru) m (instrumént), ору́дие (ru) n (orúdije), (device) прибо́р (ru) m (pribór) Telugu: ఉపకరణము (te) (upakaraṇamu)

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French: (please verify) ustensile de cuisine (fr) German: (please verify) Utensil (de) n Tibetan: (please verify) ཉེར་སྤྱད (nyer spyad)

Further reading

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• utensil on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• “utensil”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.

Anagrams

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• Lunites, luteins, luniest, sultine, untiles

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