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Definition: Ladle |
LadleNoun1. A spoon-shaped vessel with a long handle; used to transfer liquids. Verb1. Put (a liquid) into a container by means of a ladle; "ladle soup into the bowl". 2. Remove with or as if with a ladle; of liquids. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "ladle" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1350. (references) |
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Dream Interpretation | To see a ladle in your dreams, denotes you will be fortunate in the selection of a companion. Children will prove sources of happiness. If the ladle is broken or uncleanly, you will have a grievous loss. Source: Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted .... |
Metallurgy | A refractory lined steel vessel for receiving the molten steel from the furnace(or converter)and from which it is also(bottom-)poured. Source: European Union. (references) |
| A refractory-lined bucket for receiving and transporting molten metal. Source: European Union. (references) | |
Mining | A. In a smelter or foundry, a steel-holding vessel used in the transfer and transport of molten metal, matte, or slag b. A long-handled, cup-shaped tool for ladling glass out or from one spotto another. Also used for filling open pots. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Synonyms: LadleSynonyms: lade (v), laden (v). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Adversity | Planet-struck, devoted; born under an evil star, born with a wooden ladle in one's mouth; ill-fated, ill-starred, ill-omened. |
Receptacle | Shovel, trowel, spoon, spatula, ladle, dipper, tablespoon, watch glass, thimble. |
Transference | Shovel, ladle, decant, draft off, transfuse, infuse, siphon. |
Vehicle | Shovel, spool, spatula, ladle, hod, hoe; spade, spaddle, loy; spud; pitchfork; post hole digger. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Ladle |
| English words defined with "ladle": dipper, Dipping ♦ lade, laden, Ladled, Ladleful, Ladling ♦ punch bowl ♦ scoop, slop, soup ladle, Sullage. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "ladle": bottom-pour ladle, bull ladle ♦ ladle addition, ladle cleaner, ladle furnace, LADLE LINER, ladle lip, ladle patcher, LADLE POURER ♦ tea pot ladle, teapot ladle, teapot spout ladle. (references) |
| Etymologies containing "ladle": trowel. (references) |
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 | A typed manuscript lies open on a purple tablecloth. Various types of grain, either loose or in a bowl and a ladle, are on top. There is also a basket with a round loaf of brown bread cut in half. See also AV-3906. Credit: Unknown photographer/artist. |  | A dark grey collander sits on a grey marble table surrounded by a red and white checkered napkin. Inside the collander are broccoli and carrots. To the side of the napkin are several beans and more broccoli. In front of the collander entwined in the napkin is a wooden spoon with some broccoli in the ladle. See also AV-3905. Credit: Unknown photographer/artist. |
 | A wooden table containing: a ladle full of beans, a sliced loaf of brown bread, a bunch of bananas, muffins, small potatoes, a head of cabbage, an ear of corn, a pile of cereal, yams, apples, a nectarine and some spaghetti. See also AV-3905 and AV-3906. Credit: Unknown photographer/artist. |  | Fling a ladle at cupola. Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | Asian(?) baby seated holding spoon or ladle, World's Columbian Exposition, Chicago, Illinois. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | Steel production. Iron forgery scene. Molten metal running into a ladle from the tapping hole of a blast furnace at a big Eastern steel plant. Republic, Youngstown. Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | Empty collapsible tubes: a tin mine for war industry. A ladle of almost pure tin, reclaimed from old tooth paste and other metal tubes, is removed from a heating pot for pouring into molds at the Newark, New Jersey, plant of the Tin Salvage Institute. Thi. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | Emptying a ladle of molten steel at the foundry of the Farrell-Birmingham Corporation. Ansonia, Connecticut. Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | Filling molds from a ladle in the foundry of the Farrell-Birmingham Corporation. Ansonia, Connecticut. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | Ladle of molten iron is poured into an open hearth furnace for conversion into steel, Allegheny Ludlum Steel[e] Corp., Brackenridge, Pa. Credit: Library of Congress. |
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Les Miserables | Hugo, Victor | He had noticed the six silver plates and the large ladle that Madame Magloire had put on the table |
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Economic History | El Salvador | For solid bulk goods, it has a telescopic unloader and clam ladle. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| "Ladle" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 83.64% of the time. "Ladle" is used about 55 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 83.64% | 46 | 50,285 |
| Lexical Verb (infinitive) | 12.73% | 7 | 133,076 |
| Lexical Verb (base form) | 3.64% | 2 | 245,945 |
| Total | 100.00% | 55 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expressions using "ladle": casting ladle ♦ Foundry ladle ♦ ladle board ♦ ladle out ♦ ladle sleeve ♦ Ladle wood ♦ perforated ladle ♦ skimming ladle ♦ soup ladle ♦ steel ladle ♦ stirring ladle ♦ tea pot ladle ♦ teapot ladle ♦ teapot spout ladle ♦ teeming ladle ♦ wooden ladle. Additional references. | |
| Hyphenated Usage | |
Beginning with "ladle": ladle-full, ladle-handle, ladle-out honors. | |
Ending with "ladle": soup-ladle. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
hut ladle rat rotten | 174 |
ladle | 79 |
furnace ladle | 21 |
furnace ladle steelmaking | 18 |
ladle tapping | 4 |
pouring ladle | 4 |
punch ladle | 4 |
soup ladle | 4 |
buttercup gorham ladle | 3 |
ladle wooden | 3 |
ladle powder | 3 |
foundry ladle | 2 |
ladle slag | 2 |
glass and ladle | 2 |
acrylic ladle | 2 |
copper ladle | 2 |
ladle punch silver | 2 |
punch bowl ladle | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "ladle"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | luhare (scoop), zbraz me qepshe, shpërndaj (allocate, allot, apportion, bestrew, broadcast, clear, deal, deliver, deploy, diffuse, disband, disembody, dish, dish out, dispel, dispense, disperse, disseminate, dissolve, distribute, diversify, give out, give rise to, hand out, intersperse, lay, lay out, mete, part, put out, scatter, share, shed, whiffle, wipe), qepshe (dipper, scoop), nxjerr para, garuzhdë (dipper, scoop). (various references) | |
Arabic | مغرفة (dipper, scoop, shovel, soup ladle, stirring ladle), مسرف (extravagant, improvident, intemperate, lavish, loud, prodigal, profligate, profuse, thriftless, towering, ultra, wanton, wasteful), وزع (allocate, allot, apportion, cast, circulation, deal, deal out, deliver, diffuse, disburse, dispense, distribute, divide, dole out, hand out, issue, parcel, part, portion, seed, serve out), خدم (act, attend, be in service, dish out, further, serve out, tend, wait, wait on), أسرف (flirt, hand out, overindulgence, strain a point). (various references) | |
Blackfoot | iihtáóttakio'p. (various references) | |
Bulgarian | черпак (bailer, dipper, scoop), греба (dip, dredge, oar, pull, pull an oar, rake, row, scoop, shovel). (various references) | |
Chinese | " (dipper), 匕 (an ancient type of spoon, dagger), 柶 (spoon), "子, " , 勺子 (scoop). (various references) | |
Czech | sbìraèka (skimmer), nabìraèka (dipper, scoop, soup ladle). (various references) | |
Danish | stoebeske (casting ladle, steel ladle, teeming ladle), støbeske, sjoebske, sjoebeske, potageske, digel (assay furnace, capsule, crucible, crucible for crystal growing, dish, evaporating dish, platen). (various references) | |
Dutch | lading (burden, cargo, charge, load), staalpan (casting ladle, steel ladle, teeming ladle), scheplepel, pollepel (large spoon, spoon), pan (casserole, cooking pot, frying pan, frying-pan, jug, Pan, pot, saucepan), inzet in oven, glaspot (crucible), gietpan (casting ladle, steel ladle, teeming ladle), gietlepel. (various references) | |
Farsi | ملاقه (Dipper, Scoop, Spurtle), باملاقه کشیدن , باملاقه برداشتن . (various references) | |
Finnish | kauha (lifting bucket). (various references) | |
French | louche (lading). (various references) | |
German | suppenkelle (soup ladle), schöpflöffel (dipper), schöpfkelle (scoop), kelle (dipper, ladleful, scoop, strainer, trowel). (various references) | |
Greek | κουτάλα (dipper, scoop). (various references) | |
Hebrew | מבחש (paddle), מצקת (scoop), ל"לות (draw water, heave up, raise, retrieve), תרו" (kitchen spoon, muddler, stirring ladle), קיתון (ewer, jug, pitcher), את "חפור (dipper, scoop), בחש" (kitchen spoon, muddler). (various references) | |
Hungarian | merőkanál (dipper). (various references) | |
Indonesian | serok, sendok (spoon), pencedok (dipper, scoop). (various references) | |
Italian | mestolo (dipper). (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | 蝌蚪 (musical note, tadpole), お玉"子 (musical note, tadpole), 柄" (dipper, scoop), "文字 (rice scoop, wooden spoon), " (dipper), 御玉"子 (musical note, tadpole), 御玉 (egg), 勺 (dip, one-tenth of a go). (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | おたまじゃくし (musical note, tadpole), おたま (egg), しゃもじ (rice scoop, wooden spoon), しゃく (a measure, a peeve, a rule, a scale, an annoyance, borrowing, cause of offense, convulsions, dip, dipper, length, one-tenth of a go, spasms), ひしゃく (dipper, scoop), かと (changing old to new, crossing, ferry, musical note, tadpole, tame rabbit). (various references) | |
Korean | 국자 (scoop, SCOOPS). (various references) | |
Manx | lheegh. (various references) | |
Norwegian | sleiv, øse. (various references) | |
Pig Latin | adlelay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | concha (bail, cockleboat, conch, scoop, seashell, shell), colher de fundição (scoop). (various references) | |
Romanian | lingurã mare (ladleful), lingurã de turnare, scoate cu polonicul, scoate cu lingura mare, polonic (dipper), oalã de turnare, cupã (beaker, bowl, cup, goblet, heart, hearts, pot, trophy, tumbler), canciog (dipper, scoop), benã (dipper, pail). (various references) | |
Russian | разливать....разливательная ложка, черпак (scoop), ковш (bail, bucket, dipper, grab, scoop, shovel, trough). (various references) | |
Scottish | ladar (a ladle). (various references) | |
Sepedi | leho (spoon). (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | kutlača (dipper, kitchen spoon). (various references) | |
Shona | mukombe. (various references) | |
Spanish | cucharon (dipper), cucharón (dipper, scoop, soup ladle), cazo (billy can, dipper, saucepan). (various references) | |
Swazi | ín-gcwémbe. (various references) | |
Swedish | slev, skopa (bailer, bucket, dipper, scoop), ösa (bail, bale out, lade, pour, scoop, spoon). (various references) | |
Thai | ทัพพี (scoop). (various references) | |
Turkish | kepçe ile vermek, kepçe ile boşaltmak (scoop, scoop out), kepçe ile almak, kepçe (digger, dipper, dipper dredger, scoop, shovel, skimmer, soup ladle, spoon). (various references) | |
Turkmen | susak, зolpy. (various references) | |
Ukrainian | розливати (ladle out, slop), черпати (bucket, scoop), черпак (bucket, dipper, grab, scoop), ківш (bail, bailer, basket, scoop). (various references) | |
Welsh | llwyo (spoon), llwy (spoon), ymotbren (stirrer). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | trulla, trullam, trullas. (various references) |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "ladle": ladled, ladleful, ladlefuls, ladler, ladlers, ladles. (additional references) | |
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"Ladle" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Dladla, Elsdale, hadle, lable, Lacle, laddle, ladel, ladil, ladly, ladze, Lagle, lala, lale, lalu, Landl, larl, ldpe, ledal, Ledler, leld, lele, Leule, liddle, Lidl, lidle, ljacli, ljacll, ljadl, Lodoli, Oaldle, tadle, Ulladale. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "ladle" (pronounced lā"dul) |
| 4 | -ā" d u l | cradle. |
| 3 | -d u l | addle, alkaloidal, antipodal, astraddle, backpedal, beadle, Bedell, befuddle, bindle, Boodle, bridal, bridle, Brindle, bundle, caboodle, candle, caudal, caudle, Coddle, colloidal, cuddle, dawdle, Doodle, dwindle, feudal, fiddle, fondle, genocidal, girdle, handle, homicidal, huddle, hurdle, idle, idol, idyll, spindle, straddle, suicidal, supermodel, swindle, intermodal, intertidal, kindle, manhandle, medal, meddle, middle, minoxidil, mishandle, modal, model, mollycoddle, muddle, needle, noodle, paddle, panhandle, pedal, peddle, Piddle, poodle, puddle, pyramidal, rekindle, remodel, rhizoidal, riddle, Ruddle, Rundle, saddle, sandal, scandal, Seidel, sidle, tidal, toddle, trundle, twaddle, Tweedle, twiddle, unbundle, vandal, Waddle, Wedel, widdle, Windle, yodel. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-d-e-l-l" | |
-1 letter: dale, deal, dell, lade, lead, leal. | |
-2 letters: ale, all, dal, del, eld, ell, lad, lea, led. | |
-3 letters: ad, ae, al, de, ed, el, la. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-d-e-l-l" | |
+1 letter: allied, allude, aludel, balled, called, dalles, galled, ladled, ladler, ladles, lalled, malled, palled, walled. | |
+2 letters: alcalde, allayed, alleged, allowed, alloyed, allseed, alluded, alludes, allured, aludels, ballade, cadelle, cedilla, dallied, dallier, dallies, dewfall, dialled, diallel, dialler, flailed, gallied, halloed, hollaed, ideally, labeled, ladlers, landler, lapeled, medulla, rallied, sallied, spalled, stalled, tallied, ullaged, vialled. | |
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