XII. Plate and Cutlery

1. biscuit dish

2. bottle

· uncork (open) a bottle

e. g. We use a corkscrew to uncork a bottle.

3. bowl

· salad bowl

4. bread-board

5. bread-plate

6. bread basket

7. butter-dish (bowl)

8. candelabra (chandelier)

9. carving set (serving cutlery)

10. cheese-board

11. china

12. coffee-pot

13. cork (stopper)

· to draw the cork

14. corkscrew

15. cream-ewer

16. crockery

17. crown cork bottle-opener (bottle-opener)

18. cruet (-stand)

19. cup

· coffee cup

· tea cup

20. cutlery

21. decanter

22. dinner set (things, service)

23. dinner table

24. dish

(The Russian word блюдо may be translated into English as dish or course, depending on its meaning. Dish may mean: 1) a large plate — блюдо (часть сервиза ), or 2) a particular kind of food, e. g. A vegetable dish — овощное блюдо. Course — блюдо means each of the successive divisions of a meal, e. g. A dinner of three courses — обед из трех блюд ).

· to wash (up) the dishes

25. egg-cup

26. fork

· cocktail fork

· fish fork

· handle of a fork

· prong (tang, tine) of a fork

· salad fork

· serving fork

27. glass

· to fill the glass

· to pour into a glass

· to raise one’s glass (to)

· stem of the glass

· beer glass

· brandy (cognac glass

· champagne glass

· crystal glass

· liqueur glass

· spirit glass

· tapered glass

· wine glass

28. goblet

29. jug

· water-jug

30. knife (pl. Knives)

· blade of a knife

· butter knife

· carving knife

· cheese knife

· edge (cutting edge) of a knife

· fish knife

· fruit knife

· handle of a knife

31. knife rest

32. ladle

· soup ladle

· sauce ladle (gravy ladle)

33. milk-jug

34. mug

35. mustard-pot

36. napkin (table napkin, serviette)

· napkin ring

37. nutcracker

38. pepper-box

39. place (place setting, cover)

40. plate

(The word plate has many meanings, among them: 1) a circular dish from which food is eaten — тарелка; 2) table cutlery and other domestic utensils such as cups, bowls, jugs, etc., made of silver or other metal – столовое серебро. The word combination table silver is also used in this meaning.

· bottom-plate

· deep plate (soup plate)

· dessert-plate (dessert bowl)

· dinner-plate

· meat plate (AmE: meat platter)

· plateful

(When added to noun stems denoting vessels or other objects having a capacity to hold, the suffix -ful forms nouns with the sense of amount required to fill: plateful – the amount required to fill a plate; what a plate can hold. The suffix –f ul is a living suffix and is freely added to nouns, e. g. houseful, handful, etc.)

41. plate-basket

42. place card

43. serving trolley

44. salad servers

45. salt-cellar (saltshaker)

46. salver

47. sauce/gravy-boat

48. saucer

49. slop-basin

50. soup-tureen

51. spoon

· bowl of a spoon

· dessert spoon (fruit spoon)

· handle of a spoon

· salad spoon

· tea-spoon

52. sugar-basin (bowl)

53. sugar-tongs

54. tablecloth

55. table decoration

56. tea-caddy

57. tea-kettle

58. tea-pot

59. tea-set (things, service)

60. tray

(Salver – поднос is a big metal plate on which refreshments are handed around; a tray – поднос is any flat-bottomed vessel of wood or metal for placing things on or carrying them.)