KITCHEN APPLIANCE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does kitchen appliance mean? 

• KITCHEN APPLIANCE (noun)
  The noun KITCHEN APPLIANCE has 1 sense:

1. a home appliance used in preparing food

  Familiarity information: KITCHEN APPLIANCE used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• KITCHEN APPLIANCE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A home appliance used in preparing food

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Hypernyms ("kitchen appliance" is a kind of...):

home appliance; household appliance (an appliance that does a particular job in the home)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "kitchen appliance"):

coffee maker (a kitchen appliance for brewing coffee automatically)

disposal; electric pig; garbage disposal (a kitchen appliance for disposing of garbage)

food processor (a kitchen appliance with interchangeable blades; used for shredding or blending or chopping or slicing food)

hot plate; hotplate (a portable electric appliance for heating or cooking or keeping food warm)

ice maker (an appliance included in some electric refrigerators for making ice cubes)

microwave; microwave oven (kitchen appliance that cooks food by passing an electromagnetic wave through it; heat results from the absorption of energy by the water molecules in the food)

oven (kitchen appliance used for baking or roasting)

cooking stove; kitchen range; kitchen stove; range; stove (a kitchen appliance used for cooking food)

toaster (a kitchen appliance (usually electric) for toasting bread)

toaster oven (kitchen appliance consisting of a small electric oven for toasting or warming food)

waffle iron (a kitchen appliance for baking waffles; the appliance usually consists of two indented metal pans hinged together so that they create a pattern on the waffle)

 Context examples 

Sign papers now, and in January buy your new computer, smartphone, kitchen appliance, or other electronics and machines (including a car).

(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)

Refrain from buying a car, computer, smartphone, kitchen appliance, or anything else with electronics or moving parts.

(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)

Instead, circle March 11 to sign papers or make a substantial purchase, for example, a car, kitchen appliance, smart phone, or computer—or any other product that is part of the digital age.

(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)

Hold off on buying a new car, computer, smart phone, kitchen appliance, or anything else you might need.

(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)

If you need a new kitchen appliance, computer, smart phone, earphones, car, or other electronic product, buy it in the first week of February, staying as far from Mercury retrograde (February 16) as possible.

(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)

Avoid buying or leasing a car, computer, kitchen appliance, vacuum cleaner, TV set, new headphones, or any other such item that you might need or want to send as a gift to another person.

(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)