thớt

Người đầu bếp đặt củ cà rốt lên thớt để thái.

Definition

1. Noun:
   • A cutting board: A flat piece of wood (or other material) used as a base for chopping, slicing, or mincing food.
   • A millstone: The heavy, flat stone used in a mill for grinding grain (archaic or specific usage).

Usage Examples

• Noun (cutting board):

  • Đặt rau lên thớt rồi thái nhỏ. (Place the vegetables on the cutting board and chop them finely.)
  • Cô ấy rửa thớt sau khi băm thịt. (She washes the cutting board after mincing the meat.)

• Noun (millstone):

  • Thớt cối xay bằng đá rất nặng. (The mill's millstone is very heavy.)

Advanced Usage

• "mặt thớt": A colloquial, impolite phrase describing an ugly or unpleasant face.

  • Nó có khuôn mặt thớt. (He has a very ugly mug.)

• "thớt voi": An archaic term for an elephant. Historically used in contexts like military counts.

  • Đạo quân trăm thớt voi. (An army of one hundred elephants.)

Variants and Related Words

• Thớt gỗ (n): Wooden cutting board.
• Thớt nhựa (n): Plastic cutting board.

Synonyms

• Chopping block: A block for chopping.
• Cutting board: A board for cutting food.
• Millstone: A stone for grinding.

Related Idioms

• Cứng như thớt: (To be) as hard as a cutting board; describing something very tough or rigid.
• Nói như thớt: To talk incessantly or bluntly, like the sound of chopping on a board.