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Spatula
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- 1 A kitchen utensil consisting of a flat surface attached to a long handle, used for turning, lifting, or stirring food.
- 2 a hand tool with a thin flexible blade used to mix or spread soft substances wordnet
- 3 A kitchen utensil consisting of a flexible surface attached to a long handle, used for scraping the sides of bowls. Canada, US
- 4 a turner with a narrow flexible blade wordnet
- 5 A palette knife. dated
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- 6 A thin hand tool, often made of nickel, for handling chemicals or other materials, when weighing, etc.
- 7 A tongue depressor. UK
- 8 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!"
- 9 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."
- 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."
Etymology
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.
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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