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Definition of cauldron in English: cauldron(also caldron) noun ˈkɔːldr(ə)nˈkɒldr(ə)nˈkɔldrən 1A large metal pot with a lid and handle, used for cooking over an open fire. (放在火堆上用来煮食物的有盖和带柄的)大锅 Example sentencesExamples - A unique aspect of this tomb was that it contained the largest group of fragmentary handmade tripod cauldrons in the Early Iron Age cemetery at Torone.
- Outside burned a fire over which hung an iron cauldron, ready simmering.
- A French table is likely to have on it a cauldron of vegetable soup, complete with carrots and chard and tiny pasta shapes such as macaroni.
- The ingredients were placed in a large cauldron and cooked over a slow fire for a whole afternoon until it turned into a pot of delicious soup.
- Curzon sat in his room, absently stirring a cauldron with a long metal spoon.
- Inside was a fire with a huge iron cauldron on it.
- One of the more remarkable pieces in the collection is a large urali or metal cauldron of over one metre in diameter.
- They've been flooded with supplies: pies and cakes, bottles of vodka, huge cauldrons of soup.
- In the days ahead we'll take turns stirring steaming cauldrons over the camp fire.
- They would mix strange and foul liquids producing gold using caldrons with fake bottoms, or chunks of minerals or charcoal containing small amounts of gold.
- On and around them are all sorts of spits, racks, trivets, pans, kettles, cauldrons and hot plates, all fashioned out of black cast iron.
- I set and lit our fire, and filled our small cauldron with water.
- A later warrior grave contained a bronze cauldron and a set of iron weapons.
- Standing before her bubbling cauldron, the Crone raised her ancient hands and summoned yet another lower-level demon.
- The famous Llyn Fawr hoard, found during reservoir construction in the Mid South Wales Valleys in 1911 and 1913, contained two complete bronze cauldrons.
- A large cauldron or cooking pot set or suspended above an open fire was in general use.
- A simmering stew sat in a large cauldron over an open fire; the smell alone made Jack's mouth water.
- Mother boiled cauldrons of red sugar water daily and filled a motley collection of feeders which were suspended at various locations around the yard.
- A man with a metal detector unearthed a cauldron thought to date back to 50BC.
Synonyms cooking utensil, container, receptacle, vessel 2A situation characterized by instability and strong emotions. 〈喻〉骚动,躁动;愤激之情 a cauldron of repressed anger 强压着的一腔怒火。 Example sentencesExamples - They continue to live together, she in the company of ephemeral lovers, and he in a simmering cauldron of internalized anger.
- And I think a lot of people have a real emotional cauldron going on within them.
- Leigh Centurions step into the cauldron of the new National League One with a tough double header awaiting them over the Easter holiday.
- Any parliament is always going to be a seething cauldron of ambition.
- Somehow, in the emotional cauldron of Parkhead, that quality is hugely reassuring.
- During her drive home, her emotions began to bubble and seethe in the cauldron that was her mind.
- Jud Dean of Felton, Delaware, is a 21-year-old cadet at the United States Coast Guard Academy, where he plays football and pursues physique perfection in the caldron of bodybuilding.
- Many inventions of modern warfare were born in the boiling cauldron of the American Civil War.
- This implies that I saw schools as ‘evil cauldrons of conservatism,’ which does not reflect my views and my experience with very dedicated teachers.
- I've never played anywhere like it - it was a septic cauldron of hatred.
- The Athens pool strikes you as the most unlikely emotional cauldron.
- What often emerges out of this seething cauldron is a mutually acceptable way forward.
- His wife Kerry's, on the other hand, was a cauldron of domestic violence and emotional instability.
- The feminist movement proper in France emerged from the cauldron of May 1968.
- The film's ending is both justified and satisfying, a moment of grace in a cauldron of anger and hopelessness.
- They remain seething cauldrons of anger, frustration and discontent that rest on an underlying current of tension and raw violence which can explode without warning at any time.
- Premiership grounds that used to be seething cauldrons of humanity now have less atmosphere than a county library.
- The continent appears to be a cauldron of corruption and superstition.
- Most pressure in the cauldron of the Olympics athletics extravaganza will be on Marion Jones.
- If Scotland's shinty players can keep their collective nerve in such a cauldron, then they will have truly earned the right to wear their blue jerseys.
OriginMiddle English: from Anglo-Norman French caudron, based on Latin caldarium, calidarium 'cooking-pot', from calidus 'hot'. Definition of cauldron in US English: cauldron(also caldron) nounˈkɔldrənˈkôldrən 1A large metal pot with a lid and handle, used for cooking over an open fire. (放在火堆上用来煮食物的有盖和带柄的)大锅 Example sentencesExamples - A man with a metal detector unearthed a cauldron thought to date back to 50BC.
- I set and lit our fire, and filled our small cauldron with water.
- Standing before her bubbling cauldron, the Crone raised her ancient hands and summoned yet another lower-level demon.
- Outside burned a fire over which hung an iron cauldron, ready simmering.
- A French table is likely to have on it a cauldron of vegetable soup, complete with carrots and chard and tiny pasta shapes such as macaroni.
- In the days ahead we'll take turns stirring steaming cauldrons over the camp fire.
- One of the more remarkable pieces in the collection is a large urali or metal cauldron of over one metre in diameter.
- A large cauldron or cooking pot set or suspended above an open fire was in general use.
- They would mix strange and foul liquids producing gold using caldrons with fake bottoms, or chunks of minerals or charcoal containing small amounts of gold.
- Inside was a fire with a huge iron cauldron on it.
- The famous Llyn Fawr hoard, found during reservoir construction in the Mid South Wales Valleys in 1911 and 1913, contained two complete bronze cauldrons.
- Mother boiled cauldrons of red sugar water daily and filled a motley collection of feeders which were suspended at various locations around the yard.
- On and around them are all sorts of spits, racks, trivets, pans, kettles, cauldrons and hot plates, all fashioned out of black cast iron.
- A simmering stew sat in a large cauldron over an open fire; the smell alone made Jack's mouth water.
- They've been flooded with supplies: pies and cakes, bottles of vodka, huge cauldrons of soup.
- A unique aspect of this tomb was that it contained the largest group of fragmentary handmade tripod cauldrons in the Early Iron Age cemetery at Torone.
- A later warrior grave contained a bronze cauldron and a set of iron weapons.
- Curzon sat in his room, absently stirring a cauldron with a long metal spoon.
- The ingredients were placed in a large cauldron and cooked over a slow fire for a whole afternoon until it turned into a pot of delicious soup.
Synonyms cooking utensil, container, receptacle, vessel - 1.1 A situation characterized by instability and strong emotions.
〈喻〉骚动,躁动;愤激之情 a cauldron of repressed anger 强压着的一腔怒火。 Example sentencesExamples - Leigh Centurions step into the cauldron of the new National League One with a tough double header awaiting them over the Easter holiday.
- The continent appears to be a cauldron of corruption and superstition.
- Premiership grounds that used to be seething cauldrons of humanity now have less atmosphere than a county library.
- And I think a lot of people have a real emotional cauldron going on within them.
- Jud Dean of Felton, Delaware, is a 21-year-old cadet at the United States Coast Guard Academy, where he plays football and pursues physique perfection in the caldron of bodybuilding.
- Any parliament is always going to be a seething cauldron of ambition.
- If Scotland's shinty players can keep their collective nerve in such a cauldron, then they will have truly earned the right to wear their blue jerseys.
- The feminist movement proper in France emerged from the cauldron of May 1968.
- I've never played anywhere like it - it was a septic cauldron of hatred.
- Most pressure in the cauldron of the Olympics athletics extravaganza will be on Marion Jones.
- Many inventions of modern warfare were born in the boiling cauldron of the American Civil War.
- They continue to live together, she in the company of ephemeral lovers, and he in a simmering cauldron of internalized anger.
- During her drive home, her emotions began to bubble and seethe in the cauldron that was her mind.
- The Athens pool strikes you as the most unlikely emotional cauldron.
- His wife Kerry's, on the other hand, was a cauldron of domestic violence and emotional instability.
- They remain seething cauldrons of anger, frustration and discontent that rest on an underlying current of tension and raw violence which can explode without warning at any time.
- Somehow, in the emotional cauldron of Parkhead, that quality is hugely reassuring.
- The film's ending is both justified and satisfying, a moment of grace in a cauldron of anger and hopelessness.
- This implies that I saw schools as ‘evil cauldrons of conservatism,’ which does not reflect my views and my experience with very dedicated teachers.
- What often emerges out of this seething cauldron is a mutually acceptable way forward.
OriginMiddle English: from Anglo-Norman French caudron, based on Latin caldarium, calidarium ‘cooking-pot’, from calidus ‘hot’. |