What's the difference between cutlery and utensil?

Cutlery


Definition:

  • (n.) The business of a cutler.
  • (n.) Edged or cutting instruments, collectively.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) We should welcome the change in the cutlery rule because it marginally improves the chances of sustaining public support for more serious security measures.
  • (2) The two of them were building towers with wooden blocks, but they got bored of that and decided to start introducing other objects – a camera, some cutlery, a glass of water – to the tower.
  • (3) Memorabilia - ranging from the mail sacks to some of the cutlery they used as they hid out - will be on display.
  • (4) If you were a man, and not incompetent, you would eventually be sent to see the editor, Max – Max Hastings, a frightening person who writes very well on war and rather less well on British Airways cutlery – to discuss a possible promotion to the news desk.
  • (5) He can just about feed himself with special cutlery, as long as the food is soft and cut up small.
  • (6) Silver-plated cutlery may also be a source of adventitious chromium in the diets of these post-menopausal subjects.
  • (7) The cases and means of homicidal cases were classified by cutlery and pointed weapons: 243 cases, strangulation and throttling: 104 cases, blunt or similar ones: 96 cases, fire arms (pistol or hunting gun): 35 cases, poisoning: 8 cases, murder by fire: 4 cases, and 6 other cases.
  • (8) From my father’s side the treasures included: a stuffed canary; a tiny stuffed crocodile (a gharial , taken from the Ganges); some crested china bought in seaside resorts; and a canteen of excellent cutlery given as a wedding present in 1899 and never taken from its box.
  • (9) The total bacterial count per item for crockery and cutlery exceeded the desired limit by five to 6400 times, whilst the count for utensils was also exceeded by over 100 times in both years.
  • (10) In John Lewis , union flag cutlery sales were up 22% and 30% of the bestselling cushions were emblazoned with the flag.
  • (11) Coins were found in 8 patients, toys in 3, pins and needles in 6, chicken bones and fish bones in 15, and toothpicks, shaving blades, cutlery, dentures, plastic bag containing cocaine, parts of a foam rubber mattress and other items in the remainder.
  • (12) This is the test to which, for a variety of reasons, the west has responded poorly in recent years, exemplified by the airline ban on the use of metal cutlery.
  • (13) Ninety-one percent knew there were no risks from touching and 80% no risks from sharing cutlery and crockery.
  • (14) While the two candidates jousted on television, cutlery clinked.
  • (15) On the ground, his influence can be seen in everything from compostable cutlery and crockery to hybrid campus shuttles and free staff commuter buses at the 39,000-employee global headquarters in Redmond, Washington .
  • (16) Efforts should also be made to teach people about the effectiveness of condoms as a precaution against serotransmission and to reassure people that HIV infection is unlikely to result from contacts with towels, cutlery, toilet seats, or from caring for AIDS victims.
  • (17) They arrive in a bustle with a crackle of paper bags and soon the meeting room table is festooned with salad boxes and plastic cutlery.
  • (18) We walk past a pond, at the centre of which stands a sculpture made up of bronze cutlery: a knife, a fork, a spoon.
  • (19) The chances of a terrorist successfully hijacking an aircraft by threatening passengers or crew with a table knife are now deemed negligible by the British government, which some weeks ago authorised airlines to resume using metal cutlery.
  • (20) His mother insisted that his death was accidental, part of an experiment to silver plate a spoon – he had previously gold plated another piece of cutlery by stripping the gold from a pocket watch – with the chemicals found in a pot on the stove.

Utensil


Definition:

  • (v. t.) That which is used; an instrument; an implement; especially, an instrument or vessel used in a kitchen, or in domestic and farming business.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The previous year, he claimed £1,415 for two new sofas, made two separate claims of £230 and £108 for new bed linen, charged £86 for a new kettle and kitchen utensils and made two separate claims, of £65 and £186, for replacement glasses and crockery.
  • (2) We’d handed out four or five platefuls and they demanded we put our utensils down and come with them,” he said.
  • (3) These errors include losses of food on cooking and eating utensils and dishware, losses of feces or urine on toilet paper or in collection containers, and losses through sweat, exfoliated skin, hair and nail growth, saliva, menses, blood sampling, toothbrushing, semen, and, for nitrogen, from flatus and respiration.
  • (4) The cup method is considered to have advantages because utensils and ingredients for this method are more readily available in these rural homes.
  • (5) The problems related to the release of toxicants from ceramic utensils are treated from the aspects of ceramics, test techniques, analytics, toxicology and food law, with special regard to the necessity for a well-balanced compromise between the justified hygienic demands of health protection and the actual technological possibilities.
  • (6) Utensil drying racks were found in 56.0% of the households.
  • (7) They are also known for space-saving devices such as utensils which pack neatly on top of each other in a stand, spatulas, palette knifes and ladles that use a weighted handle to avoid being placed on the countertop, thus saving cleaning.
  • (8) Additionally we carried out an investigation of kitchensurfaces and -utensils by means of "Rodac"-plates.
  • (9) The money is better now, and I can earn enough for food and clothes for the children – and I can buy clothes and kitchen utensils for myself,” she says.
  • (10) Home cookware was examined by atomic absorption spectroscopy: seven different stainless utensils as well as cast iron, mild steel, aluminum and enamelled steel.
  • (11) Specific behaviors taught, such as replacing utensils after each bite and eating slowly, showed significant changes in the expected directions with weight change.
  • (12) Mands for two of three utensils emerged following tact intervention.
  • (13) Most of them knew that promiscuity, blood transfusion and sharing injection needles and syringes are the major modes of transmission, but a number still incriminate toilet seats, eating utensils, hand-shaking and kissing.
  • (14) Correlations were found between the time a dog spent in a manyatta and whether dogs were allowed to clean children, scavenge from cooking utensils and defecate within the home area.
  • (15) At the end of the course participants had to: 1) recognize common illnesses in children; 2) identify children needing immediate referrals to the hospital; 3) take temperature, sponge a child with a fever, sterilize an infant's feeding utensils using hypochlorite solution, assess the nutritional status of children; 4) list the various components and prepare a weaning diet; and 5) discuss the nutritional needs for preschool and school-aged children.
  • (16) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Flatpack furniture and kitchen utensils Photograph: David Levene for the Guardian Some items were still in their boxes, flatpacks intact.
  • (17) Police believed two to three of the camps were only abandoned as recently as two weeks ago because they found rice, vegetables, recently cooked meals and cooking utensils.
  • (18) Watching, I began to shift my gaze from the bakers to the work surfaces, counting all the utensils.
  • (19) Ancillary hygienic measures included the use of disposable feeding and drinking utensils, frequent removal and destruction of faeces and scrubbing of sanitary trays and cages with hot 5% sodium carbonate solution.
  • (20) K. Schürer exhibited a complete equipment of a modern pharmacy with glass and porcelain drug jars and various pharmaceutical utensils.