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A ceramic dictator that decides exactly when your patience is ready to pour.
means A vessel, usually with a spout, handle, and lid, used for brewing and serving tea.
from A plain compound of "tea" + "pot." The "tea" half traveled far before it landed: it comes from the Min Chinese pronunciation "te" (heard in coastal Fujian), carried to Europe by Dutch traders by sea — which is why much of Western Europe says "tea," "thee," or "té," while places reached by the overland route say versions of "cha" (from Mandarin/Cantonese). "Pot" is an old, humble word for a rounded container, with cousins across Germanic and Romance languages. So the teapot is essentially "the pot for the leaf that came by ship."
- british law
- Boston rebels dumped 342 chests, not teapots, in 1773
- physics flaw
- The teapot effect makes spouts dribble down their own sides
- cosmic argument
- Russell imagined a teapot orbiting the sun, unprovable
- design rule
- Shorter spouts pour cleaner, fighting that infamous drip
- yixing clay
- Chinese pots absorb tea, seasoning over decades of use
wedgwood teapot — iconic english pottery design by josiah wedgwood, produced since 1759
yixing teapot — chinese purple clay teapots from yixing, jiangsu province, prized since ming dynasty
betty teapot — ceramic teapot designed by russel wright in 1950s, mass-produced american design classic