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KITCHEN
kitchen
(noun) a room equipped for preparing meals
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Etymology
Noun
kitchen (plural kitchens)
A room or area for preparing food.
Cuisine.
(chiefly, African American Vernacular English) The nape of a person's hairline, often referring to its uncombed or "nappy" look.
(music) The percussion section of an orchestra.
(dated) A utensil for roasting meat.
(attributive) A domesticated or uneducated form of a language.
(slang) A public gaming room in a casino.
(obsolete) Anything eaten as a relish with bread, potatoes, etc.
Usage notes
• (area for preparing food): A kitchen fruit, kitchen apple, or the like, or one good for the kitchen, is one suitable for use in prepared foods.
Verb
kitchen (third-person singular simple present kitchens, present participle kitchening, simple past and past participle kitchened)
To do kitchen work; to prepare food.
To embellish a basic food; to season, add condiments, etc.
(by extension) To embellish; to dress up.
Anagrams
• Chetnik, chetnik, ethnick, thicken
Proper noun
Kitchen
A surname.
Anagrams
• Chetnik, chetnik, ethnick, thicken
Source: Wiktionary
Kitch"en, n. Etym: [OE. kichen, kichene, kuchene, AS. cycene, L. coquina, equiv. to culina a kitchen, fr. coquinus pertaining to cooking, fr. coquere to cook. See Cook to prepare food, and cf. Cuisine.]
1. A cookroom; the room of a house appropriated to cookery. Cool was his kitchen, though his brains were hot. Dryden. A fat kitchen makes a lean will. Franklin.
2. A utensil for roasting meat; as, a tin kitchen. Kitchen garden. See under Garden.
– Kitchen lee, dirty soapsuds. [Obs.] " A brazen tub of kitchen lee." Ford.
– Kitchen stuff, fat collected from pots and pans. Donne.
Kitch"en, v. t.
Definition: To furnish food to; to entertain with the fare of the kitchen. [Obs.] Shak.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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(noun) small asexual fruiting body resembling a cushion or blister consisting of a mat of hyphae that is produced on a host by some fungi
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