spatula

名词 n. 动词 v.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A kitchen utensil consisting of a flat surface attached to a long handle, used for turning, lifting, or stirring food.
  2. A kitchen utensil consisting of a flexible surface attached to a long handle, used for scraping the sides of bowls. Canada,US
  3. A palette knife. dated
  4. A thin hand tool, often made of nickel, for handling chemicals or other materials, when weighing, etc.
  5. A tongue depressor. UK
  6. A croupier's tool for turning up cards in a casino.
    — The croupier delicately faced her other two cards with the tip of his spatula. A four! She had lost!
  7. A sclerotized, T-shaped plate in the prothorax of larvae of flies belonging to family Cecidomyiidae, the gall midges.
    — The third instars are similar to other members of the genus except for a three-pronged spatula (typically two-pronged) and five lateral papillae (typically four) and with a nonbristled first instar.
动词 v.
  1. To lift with or as if with a spatula. transitive
    — A book on Pastels referes [sic] to a rough Modeling paste to be spatulaed over cotton duck.
  2. To strike with a spatula. transitive
    — Or if you're a Ranma Character. I mean, they've been kicked/punched/thrown/hammered/spatulaed into the stratosphere enough times, you gotta figure they've developed a prretty high threshold of pain/injury.

词形变化

spatulas plural spatulae plural spatulæ plural spatulas present,singular,third-person spatulaing participle,present spatulaed participle,past spatulaed past

词汇关系

衍生词
cyclospatula microspatula scoopula spatulalike spatular spatulate spatulation spatuliform spatuloid spatulous spoonula

词源

词源 1
Borrowed from Latin spatula (“a flat piece”), the diminutive form of spatha (“broad or flat tool”), from Ancient Greek σπάθη (spáthē, “a broad wood or metal blade”). Doublet of spauld; compare spatha and spathe.
词源 2
Borrowed from Latin spatula (“a flat piece”), the diminutive form of spatha (“broad or flat tool”), from Ancient Greek σπάθη (spáthē, “a broad wood or metal blade”). Doublet of spauld; compare spatha and spathe.
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