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# 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 →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/K/kitchen/#m1)

2) The people who cook in a restaurant: «The kitchen is busy». [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/K/kitchen/#m2)

### 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 →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/K/kitchen/#x1)
- Turn pan handles inward so they can't be knocked. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/K/kitchen/#x2)
- Wash your hands before you cook in the kitchen. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/K/kitchen/#x3)
- Ask an adult before using a sharp kitchen knife. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/K/kitchen/#x4)
- Dad is in the kitchen making pancakes. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/K/kitchen/#x5)
- Wipe up spills on the kitchen floor so no one slips. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/K/kitchen/#x6)
- Cleaning sprays are kept in a locked kitchen cupboard. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/K/kitchen/#x7)
- The school kitchen makes lunch for everyone. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/K/kitchen/#x8)
- The bird flew into the kitchen. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/K/kitchen/#x9)

### 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.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/35-closed-doors-whispers-and-secrets/9/)
- [Stories grow as they travel: one mouse in the kitchen becomes "the school's closing because of rats".](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/50-rumours-about-classmates-and-secrets/16/)
- [Vivid example: in a kitchen in Manchester the six o'clock news shows smoke over a city and the word "missiles".](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/51-scary-news-wars-disasters-and-how-to-talk-about-them/3/)
- [Vivid example: in a kitchen in Cork, Mum watches the breakfast show while Oscar eats his cereal.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/53-breakfast-and-chat-shows-celebrity-gossip-on-the-sofa/3/)
- [Zoo kitchens prepare hundreds of meals a day, and nutritionists plan the right mix of food for each kind of animal.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/111-feeding-times-and-the-zoo-kitchen/4/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «kitchen» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/K/kitchen/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.