What's the difference between ladle and ladleful?

Ladle


Definition:

  • (v. t.) A cuplike spoon, often of large size, with a long handle, used in lading or dipping.
  • (v. t.) A vessel to carry liquid metal from the furnace to the mold.
  • (v. t.) The float of a mill wheel; -- called also ladle board.
  • (v. t.) An instrument for drawing the charge of a cannon.
  • (v. t.) A ring, with a handle or handles fitted to it, for carrying shot.
  • (v. t.) To take up and convey in a ladle; to dip with, or as with, a ladle; as, to ladle out soup; to ladle oatmeal into a kettle.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) 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.
  • (2) My grandad used to deliver the milk and ladle it into people’s teapots.
  • (3) The highest dust exposures were found during furnace, cupola, and pouring ladle repair.
  • (4) The latest recovery has been robust, but it was always a fantasy to believe that the ECB could solve all the euro's problems with its long-term refinancing operations, ladling out ultra-cheap three-year money to European banks .
  • (5) Ladle a little of the pasta cooking water into the other pan.
  • (6) Pour in a small ladleful of batter and swirl around to cover the base of the pan.
  • (7) 7 Ladle the sauce into a warmed serving dish and arrange the koftas on top.
  • (8) There's some shared soup somewhere in my head from which these two things are ladling."
  • (9) When the first ladleful is absorbed add the trevisano and stir through (this will gradually soften throughout the cooking process).
  • (10) In the 1st part of the experiment, older and younger adults read a series of high-cloze sentence frames, each missing its final word (e.g., "She ladled the soup into her____.").
  • (11) A malacological survey was undertaken at three-monthly intervals by means of ten scoops with a perforated ladle each ten metres along the two banks of the ditches and streams of the region.
  • (12) She has ladled out countless bowls of her pork noodle soup, but the owner of a Hanoi streetside restaurant says she was stunned when Barack Obama strolled in, pulled up a plastic stool and slurped down Vietnam’s famed “bun cha” delicacy.
  • (13) Once the pan is really hot, reduce the heat to medium and add the pancake mix using a ladle – about 2tbsp of batter per crepe.
  • (14) When the butter starts to sizzle, give the batter a quick stir, then pour or ladle in enough to give a wafer-thin layer.
  • (15) Add the enoki mushrooms to the broth, simmer for a minute or two, then ladle over the cheeks.
  • (16) Use a ladle to apply a thin layer of pancake mixture to the pan, try to cook it with no colour - approximately two minutes, and then turn it.
  • (17) One of my happiest food memories is of eating a black dhal (made with the dark unskinned "urad" lentil) before sunrise in Pakistan during Ramadan – rich and spicy and thickened with heavy ladles of butter or "ghee" to fill you up for the day.
  • (18) It’s set to invade your mind all over again: those four trilling balalaika notes, like four great big tablespoons of treacle ladled into your mind.
  • (19) Keep checking the rice after about 20 minutes and when almost done add another ladleful of stock, the parmesan, a squeeze of lemon, the remaining butter and stir.
  • (20) On every street corner of this district, at around noon, a woman with a big tin pot ladles out thick gruel to a stream of small children carrying tin bowls.

Ladleful


Definition:

  • (n.) A quantity sufficient to fill a ladle.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) 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.
  • (2) My grandad used to deliver the milk and ladle it into people’s teapots.
  • (3) The highest dust exposures were found during furnace, cupola, and pouring ladle repair.
  • (4) The latest recovery has been robust, but it was always a fantasy to believe that the ECB could solve all the euro's problems with its long-term refinancing operations, ladling out ultra-cheap three-year money to European banks .
  • (5) Ladle a little of the pasta cooking water into the other pan.
  • (6) Pour in a small ladleful of batter and swirl around to cover the base of the pan.
  • (7) 7 Ladle the sauce into a warmed serving dish and arrange the koftas on top.
  • (8) There's some shared soup somewhere in my head from which these two things are ladling."
  • (9) When the first ladleful is absorbed add the trevisano and stir through (this will gradually soften throughout the cooking process).
  • (10) In the 1st part of the experiment, older and younger adults read a series of high-cloze sentence frames, each missing its final word (e.g., "She ladled the soup into her____.").
  • (11) A malacological survey was undertaken at three-monthly intervals by means of ten scoops with a perforated ladle each ten metres along the two banks of the ditches and streams of the region.
  • (12) She has ladled out countless bowls of her pork noodle soup, but the owner of a Hanoi streetside restaurant says she was stunned when Barack Obama strolled in, pulled up a plastic stool and slurped down Vietnam’s famed “bun cha” delicacy.
  • (13) Once the pan is really hot, reduce the heat to medium and add the pancake mix using a ladle – about 2tbsp of batter per crepe.
  • (14) When the butter starts to sizzle, give the batter a quick stir, then pour or ladle in enough to give a wafer-thin layer.
  • (15) Add the enoki mushrooms to the broth, simmer for a minute or two, then ladle over the cheeks.
  • (16) Use a ladle to apply a thin layer of pancake mixture to the pan, try to cook it with no colour - approximately two minutes, and then turn it.
  • (17) One of my happiest food memories is of eating a black dhal (made with the dark unskinned "urad" lentil) before sunrise in Pakistan during Ramadan – rich and spicy and thickened with heavy ladles of butter or "ghee" to fill you up for the day.
  • (18) It’s set to invade your mind all over again: those four trilling balalaika notes, like four great big tablespoons of treacle ladled into your mind.
  • (19) Keep checking the rice after about 20 minutes and when almost done add another ladleful of stock, the parmesan, a squeeze of lemon, the remaining butter and stir.
  • (20) On every street corner of this district, at around noon, a woman with a big tin pot ladles out thick gruel to a stream of small children carrying tin bowls.

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