utensil
pronunciation
How to pronounce utensil in British English:
UK [juːˈtensl]
How to pronounce utensil in American English:
US [juːˈtensl]
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- Noun:
- an implement for practical use (especially in a household)
Word Origin
- utensil
- utensil: [14] Latin ūtēnsilis meant ‘usable, useful’. It was derived from the verb ūtī ‘use’ (source also of English use, utility, utilize, etc). In the Middle Ages it was adapted into a noun, ūtēnsilia, meaning ‘things for use, implements’. This passed into English via Old French utensile as utensil, still a collective noun, but by the 15th century it was being used for an individual ‘implement’.=> use
- utensil (n.)
- late 14c., from Old French utensile "implement" (14c., Modern French ustensile), from Latin utensilia "materials, things for use," noun use of neuter plural of utensilis (adj.) "fit for use, of use, useful," from uti (see use (v.)).
Example
- 1. Each utensil is specifically designed to discourage people from eating meat .
- 2. This requires rationally designing the size and tolerance zone of calculative utensil .
- 3. Those who use one utensil often think people who don 't are uncivilized or even barbaric .
- 4. Tea chooser is utensil to take tea from the tea candy into the tea pot .
- 5. The spoon has the longest history as a dinner utensil .