spatula
(noun) a hand tool with a thin flexible blade used to mix or spread soft substances
spatula
(noun) a turner with a narrow flexible blade
Source: WordNet® 3.1
spatula (plural spatulas or spatulae or spatulæ)
A kitchen utensil consisting of a flat surface attached to a long handle, used for turning, lifting, or stirring food.
Synonyms: fish slice, fish trowel, turner, pancake turner, flipper
(North America) A kitchen utensil consisting of a flexible surface attached to a long handle, used for scraping the sides of bowls.
Synonyms: scraper, dough scraper
(dated) A palette knife.
(chemistry) A thin hand tool, often made of nickel, for handling chemicals or other materials, when weighing, etc.
A croupier's tool for turning up cards in a casino.
(entomology) A sclerotized, T-shaped plate in the prothorax of larvae of flies belonging to family Cecidomyiidae, the gall midges.
Source: Wiktionary
Spat"u*la, n. Etym: [L. spatula, spathula, dim. of spatha a spatula: F. spatule. See Spade for digging.]
Definition: 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.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
19 June 2025
(noun) the condition of belonging to a particular place or group by virtue of social or ethnic or cultural lineage; “his roots in Texas go back a long way”; “he went back to Sweden to search for his roots”; “his music has African roots”
According to Guinness World Records, on 25 September 2016, the Birla Institute of Management Technology (India) in Uttar Pradesh, India, constructed the largest coffee cups pyramid consisting of 23,821 cups. They used paper takeaway coffee cups to build the pyramid.
