different between foundry vs ladle

English

Alternative forms

• foundery (dated)

Etymology

From French fonderie.

Pronunciation

• enPR: foun'dr?, IPA^(key): /fa?nd?i/
• Rhymes: -a?nd?i

Noun

foundry (countable and uncountable, plural foundries)

1. A facility that melts metals in special furnaces and pours the molten metal into molds to make products. Foundries are usually specified according to the type of metal dealt with: iron foundry, brass foundry, etc.
2. The act, process, or art of casting metals; founding.
3. A semiconductor fabrication plant in the microelectronics industry.

Synonyms

• (semiconductor fabrication plant): fab

Derived terms

• type foundry

Translations

Further reading

• foundry on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• foundry (disambiguation) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

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.

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References

Anagrams

• Adell, Della