Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. An electrically heated plate for cooking or warming food.
- n. A tabletop cooking device with one or two burners.
Wiktionary
- n. Alternative form of hotplate.
WordNet 3.0
- n. a portable electric appliance for heating or cooking or keeping food warm
Examples
“As that old hen boiled merrily away on the hot plate and the kids were cuddled down asleep on their table-bed, we put toys under the branch—two cars, two trucks, a fire engine and a red and yellow train.”
“Sister Mona and her daughter, Cindy, had the smallest trailer, with just a double bed in the back corner and a countertop with a two-burner hot plate and a toaster oven.”
“Mother heated water on the hot plate and poured it into the number8tub that sat close to the fireplace.”
“While an iron plate placed over a good fire was getting hot, I mixed the meal with water and a little salt, kneaded it well, and forming a thickish cake, laid it on the hot plate when, one side presently becoming a nice yellow brown colour, it was turned and was quickly baked.”
“I had a picture in my mind of a spider-infested stairway leading to a dank room with a bare flashlight hanging down, a chamber pot in one corner and a hot plate with questionable wiring in the other.”
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In The Laboratory
List of laboratory glassware and apparatuses, machines, tools, etc., starting with burette.
Please feel free to help me populate this list, all you mad scientist Wordniks.burette, reagent bottle, Erlenmeyer flask, pipette, centrifuge, ultracentrifuge, beaker, spot plate, crucible, flask, mortar, pestle and 117 more...
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