different between dipper vs ladle

English

Etymology

dip +? -er

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /?d?p?/
• (US) IPA^(key): /?d?p?/
• Rhymes: -?p?(r)

Noun

dipper (plural dippers)

1. One who, or that which, dips (immerses something, or itself, into a liquid).
   • 1903, Twelfth Census of the United States, 1900, page 1189:

     A chocolate dipper dips the cream centers into warm chocolate by hand; when taken out the creams are shaped [...]

   • 2001, Thermal Engineering (Tata McGraw-Hill Education, ?ISBN), page 472:

     When the engine runs the dipper dips in the oil once in every revolution of the crankshaft and the oil is splashed on the cylinder walls.

2. Any of various small passerine birds of the genus Cinclus that live near fast-flowing streams and feed along the bottom.
3. A cup-shaped vessel with a long handle, for dipping into and ladling out liquids; a ladle or scoop.
4. (Britain, India) The control in a vehicle that switches between high-beam and low-beam (i.e. dips the lights), especially when used to signal other vehicles.
5. Any snack food intended to be dipped in sauce.

   chicken dippers

6. (slang) A pickpocket.
   • 1976, Michael Harrison, Beyond Baker Street: A Sherlockian Anthology (page 117)

     It is doubtful if the Victorian Londoner needed any warning, for the artful mobsmen, toolers, whizzers and dippers, together with their stickman accomplices, were everywhere in the crowds, in the underground, on railway trains […]

7. (historical) A person employed in a tin plate works to coat steel plates in molten tin by dipping them.
8. (historical) A person employed to assist a bather in and out of the sea.
9. (historical, informal, Christianity) A Baptist or Dunker.

Synonyms

• (pickpocket): see Thesaurus:pickpocket

Hyponyms

• (Cinclus): Cinclus cinclus (water ouzel)

Derived terms

birds of the genus Cinclus

• white-throated dipper or European dipper (Cinclus cinclus)
• brown dipper, Cinclus pallasii
• American dipper, Cinclus mexicanus
• white-capped dipper, Cinclus leucocephalus
• rufous-throated dipper, Cinclus schulzii

cup-shaped vessel with a handle

• Big Dipper
• Little Dipper

Translations

Anagrams

• ripped

English

Etymology

From Middle English ladel, from Old English hlædel, derived from Proto-Germanic *hlaþan? (“to load”), from Proto-Indo-European *kleh?- (“to put, lay out”), same source as Lithuanian kloti (“to spread”), equivalent to lade +? -le (“agent suffix”).

Pronunciation

• (UK, US) IPA^(key): /?le?.d?l/
• Rhymes: -e?d?l

Noun

ladle (plural ladles)

1. A deep-bowled spoon with a long, usually curved, handle.
   • 1680, Robert Boyle, Experiments and Notes about the Producibleness of Chemical Principles

     When the materials of glass have been kept long in fusion, the mixture casts up the superfluous salt, which the workmen afterwards take off with ladles.

2. (metallurgy) A container used in a foundry to transport and pour out molten metal.
3. The float of a mill wheel; a ladle board.
4. An instrument for drawing the charge of a cannon.
5. A ring, with a handle or handles fitted to it, for carrying shot.

Synonyms

• (deep-bowled spoon): dipper

Derived terms

• frying ladle

Translations

Verb

ladle (third-person singular simple present ladles, present participle ladling, simple past and past participle ladled)

1. (transitive) To pour or serve something with a ladle.

Translations

References

Anagrams

• Adell, Della