hotplate
Britishnoun
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an electrically heated plate on a cooker
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a portable device, heated electrically or by spirit lamps, etc, on which food can be kept warm
Example Sentences
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Sizeka Rashamosa is standing in her restaurant, a stream of people swirling around her, some delivering crates of beer, another grilling meat on a hotplate.
From BBC • Aug. 6, 2024
Using a borrowed gas canister and a hotplate, only the outside of a building was scorched.
From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 4, 2023
The filthy kitchen had a hotplate and just a few pots and pans.
From Seattle Times • Sep. 23, 2020
For example, the animals did not jump or rear away from threats and did not try to escape when suspended by their tails, but responded normally to pain induced by a hotplate.
From Nature • Sep. 15, 2020
There were two bedrooms, the larger of which Dad claimed, and a room that tripled as a kitchen, dining room, and living room, meaning that it contained one table, one moth-eaten sofa, and one hotplate.
From "Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children" by Ransom Riggs
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