spatula

Tanımlar (İngilizce)

1. isim A kitchen utensil consisting of a flat surface attached to a long handle, used for turning, lifting, or stirring food.
2. isim A kitchen utensil consisting of a flexible surface attached to a long handle, used for scraping the sides of bowls.
3. isim A palette knife.
4. isim A thin hand tool, often made of nickel, for handling chemicals or other materials, when weighing, etc.
5. isim A tongue depressor.
6. isim 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. isim 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.”

8. fiil To lift with or as if with a spatula.

   “A book on Pastels referes [sic] to a rough Modeling paste to be spatulaed over cotton duck.”

9. fiil To strike with a spatula.

   “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.”