cutlery

«cutlery» in Mova's school dictionary: the knives, forks and spoons you use for eating and… — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 1 sentence of Mova's corpora that use it.

part of speech

noun (cutlery, uncountable)

meaning for a pupil

Cutlery is the knives, forks and spoons you use for eating and serving food. tree →

sense in the lessons

In everyday life children set the table with cutlery and learn table manners: fork in the left hand, knife in the right (in the UK), or cutting and then switching (in the USA). In safety, sharp knives are handled with care. Phrases: set the cutlery, plastic cutlery, cutlery drawer, a piece of cutlery.

examples

• Please put the cutlery on the table. tree →
• The cutlery is in the top drawer. tree →
• We used plastic cutlery at the picnic. tree →
• Wash the cutlery after dinner. tree →
• Knives, forks and spoons are all cutlery. tree →
• Hold your cutlery properly at the table. tree →
• A piece of cutlery fell on the floor. tree →

note

Uncountable: no «a», no plural (some cutlery, a piece of cutlery). Mostly British; Americans often say «silverware» or «flatware». Spelling: cut-ler-y.

In the corpora

• Pizza, sandwiches, chips and chicken drumsticks are finger foods, and most other foods are eaten with cutlery.

Trees and pragmatics

Every meaning and example of «cutlery» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.