saucepan
part of speech
noun (a saucepan, saucepans)
meaning for a pupil
A saucepan is a deep, round metal cooking pot with a long handle and often a lid, used on top of a cooker for boiling and heating food. tree →
sense in the lessons
In everyday life and cooking lessons saucepans are used to boil eggs, cook pasta or warm milk. In safety lessons children learn to turn saucepan handles inward so nobody knocks them over and gets burned. Phrases: «a pan of water», «bring to the boil in a saucepan», «turn the handle in».
examples
- Put the eggs in a saucepan of water. tree →
- Turn the saucepan handle away from the edge of the cooker. tree →
- Mum heated the soup in a small saucepan. tree →
- Don't touch the saucepan; it's very hot. tree →
- Put the lid on the saucepan so the water boils faster. tree →
- We washed the saucepans after dinner. tree →
- So she stayed there and washed the pots and scraped the saucepans and did all the dirty work. tree →
note
Countable: saucepan, saucepans; one word, «sauce» + «pan». Often just called a «pan» or «pot». A «frying pan» is flat and shallow; a saucepan is deep.
Trees and pragmatics
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