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HOT PLATE
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Dictionary entry overview: What does hot plate mean?
• HOT PLATE (noun)
The noun HOT PLATE has 1 sense:
1. a portable electric appliance for heating or cooking or keeping food warm
Familiarity information: HOT PLATE used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
A portable electric appliance for heating or cooking or keeping food warm
Classified under:
Nouns denoting man-made objects
Synonyms:
hot plate; hotplate
Hypernyms ("hot plate" is a kind of...):
kitchen appliance (a home appliance used in preparing food)
Context examples
How, as that somebody slowly settled down into myself, did I begin to parch, and feel as if my outer covering of skin were a hard board; my tongue the bottom of an empty kettle, furred with long service, and burning up over a slow fire; the palms of my hands, hot plates of metal which no ice could cool!
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
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