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 <[email protected]> wrote: > On Thu, Feb 19, 2009 at 08:34:17PM +0330, Nima Azarbayjany wrote: > >> From: Nima Azarbayjany <[email protected]> >> To: Frank Lin PIAT <[email protected]>, >> SmartList <[email protected]> >> 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 > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact > [email protected] > >
