I surely know what a tea kettle is, I just do not know what Frank meant by
saying turn off the tea kettle is his email. It did not make sense to me.
I am really not fluent in idiomatic English. I am new in seeking help from
mailing lists, so I may make mistakes and may not follow the rules correctly
until I learn enough. Can you please be clear?
Thanks.
On Thu, Feb 19, 2009 at 11:18 PM, Gerard Robin <g.rob...@free.fr> wrote:
> On Thu, Feb 19, 2009 at 08:34:17PM +0330, Nima Azarbayjany wrote:
>
>> From: Nima Azarbayjany <my.informal.conversati...@gmail.com>
>> To: Frank Lin PIAT <fp...@klabs.be>,
>> SmartList <debian-laptop@lists.debian.org>
>> Subject: Re: hibernation with new kernels
>>
> I am sorry, I do not know what the tea kettle is.
>
>> Turn off the tea kettle.
>>>
>> dict kettle gives:
> From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:
>
> Kettle \Ket"tle\ (k[e^]t"t'l), n. [OE. ketel; cf. AS. cetel,
> cetil, cytel; akin to D. kjedel, G. kessel, OHG. chezzil,
> Icel. ketill, SW. kittel, Dan. kjedel, Goth. katils; all
> perh. fr. L. catillus, dim. of catinus a deep vessel, bowl;
> but cf. also OHG. chezz[imac] kettle, Icel. kati small ship.]
> A metallic vessel, with a wide mouth, often without a cover,
> used for heating and boiling water or other liguids.
> [1913 Webster]
> {Kettle pins}, ninepins; skittles. [Obs.] --Shelton.
> {Kettle stitch} (Bookbinding), the stitch made in sewing at
> the head and tail of a book. --Knight.
> [1913 Webster]
>
> From English-French Freedict dictionary [fd-eng-fra]:
>
> kettle [ketl]
> chaudron
> HTH.
> --
> Gérard
>
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