kitchen

«kitchen» in Mova's school dictionary: stored, prepared and cooked — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 5 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

part of speech

noun (a kitchen, kitchens)

meaning for a pupil

1) The room where food is stored, prepared and cooked. tree →

2) The people who cook in a restaurant: «The kitchen is busy». tree →

sense in the lessons

In safety lessons: the kitchen has many dangers — hot ovens, hobs and kettles, sharp knives, hot oil, electricity near water, cleaning products, a fridge door; turn pan handles in, never leave cooking alone, an adult helps with heat and knives. In hygiene: wash hands before cooking, keep raw meat apart, clean surfaces. In everyday life: helping with cooking and washing up. Phrases: kitchen table, kitchen sink, kitchen knife, kitchen roll, in the kitchen, kitchen garden, soup kitchen.

examples

• We eat breakfast in the kitchen. tree →
• Turn pan handles inward so they can't be knocked. tree →
• Wash your hands before you cook in the kitchen. tree →
• Ask an adult before using a sharp kitchen knife. tree →
• Dad is in the kitchen making pancakes. tree →
• Wipe up spills on the kitchen floor so no one slips. tree →
• Cleaning sprays are kept in a locked kitchen cupboard. tree →
• The school kitchen makes lunch for everyone. tree →
• The bird flew into the kitchen. tree →

note

Countable: kitchens. Spelling: «kit + chen» — the t is silent in speech: «KITCH-in». Do not confuse with «chicken». «Everything but the kitchen sink» means almost everything.

In the corpora

• A closed kitchen door and low voices mean grown-ups are discussing something they are not ready to share.
• Stories grow as they travel: one mouse in the kitchen becomes "the school's closing because of rats".
• Vivid example: in a kitchen in Manchester the six o'clock news shows smoke over a city and the word "missiles".
• Vivid example: in a kitchen in Cork, Mum watches the breakfast show while Oscar eats his cereal.
• Zoo kitchens prepare hundreds of meals a day, and nutritionists plan the right mix of food for each kind of animal.

Trees and pragmatics

Every meaning and example of «kitchen» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.