Spatula vs. Turner

Spatulanoun

A kitchen utensil consisting of a flat surface attached to a long handle, used for turning, lifting, or stirring food.

Spatulanoun

(North America) A kitchen utensil consisting of a flexible surface attached to a long handle, used for scraping the sides of bowls.

Spatulanoun

(dated) A palette knife.

Spatulanoun

(chemistry) A thin hand tool, often made of nickel, for handling chemicals or other materials, when weighing, etc.

Spatulanoun

A croupier's tool for turning up cards in a casino.

Spatulanoun

An implement shaped like a knife, flat, thin, and somewhat flexible, used for spreading paints, fine plasters, drugs in compounding prescriptions, etc. Cf. Palette knife, under Palette.

Spatulanoun

a turner with a narrow flexible blade

Spatulanoun

a hand tool with a thin flexible blade used to mix or spread soft substances

Spatula

A spatula is a broad, flat, flexible blade used to mix, spread and lift material including foods, drugs, plaster and paints. In medical applications, may also be used synonymously with tongue depressor.The word spatula derives from the Latin word for a flat piece of wood or splint, a diminutive form of the Latin spatha, meaning 'broadsword', and hence can also refer to a tongue depressor.

Turnernoun

One who or that which turns.

Turnernoun

A person who turns and shapes wood etc. on a lathe

Turnernoun

A kitchen utensil used for turning food.

Turnernoun

(zoology) A variety of pigeon; a tumbler.

Turnernoun

(cricket) A very dry pitch on which the ball will turn with ease.

Turnernoun

An acrobat or gymnast especially (historical) a member of the German Turnvereine, German-American gymnastic clubs that also served as nationalist political groups.

Turnernoun

(sports) A person who practices athletic or gymnastic exercises.

Turnernoun

One who turns; especially, one whose occupation is to form articles with a lathe.

Turnernoun

A variety of pigeon; a tumbler.

Turnernoun

A person who practices athletic or gymnastic exercises.

Turnernoun

United States slave and insurrectionist who in 1831 led a rebellion of slaves in Virginia; he was captured and executed (1800-1831)

Turnernoun

United States endocrinologist (1892-1970)

Turnernoun

English landscape painter whose treatment of light and color influenced the French impressionists (1775-1851)

Turnernoun

United States historian who stressed the role of the western frontier in American history (1861-1951)

Turnernoun

a tumbler who is a member of a turnverein

Turnernoun

a lathe operator

Turnernoun

cooking utensil having a flat flexible part and a long handle; used for turning or serving food