Meaning & use
kitchen appliance
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Meaning
nouncountable
A machine or device used in a kitchen to help prepare or cook food.
Grammar: Countable: you can say 'a kitchen appliance' or 'kitchen appliances'. It is often used in the plural when talking about several items.
Patterns
- a kitchen appliance
- kitchen appliances
- buy a kitchen appliance
- repair kitchen appliances
A blender is a common kitchen appliance.
The store sells kitchen appliances like mixers and microwaves.
We need to replace several old kitchen appliances.
Word forms
| plural | kitchen appliances |
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Common combinations
- small kitchen appliance
- A hand mixer is a small kitchen appliance.
- kitchen appliance store
- She works at a kitchen appliance store.
- kitchen appliance repair
- He does kitchen appliance repair on weekends.
- major kitchen appliance
- A refrigerator is a major kitchen appliance.
Synonyms and how they differ
Word family
- appliance noun
- A machine for a particular household task, such as a washing machine.
Commonly confused: kitchen appliance or kitchenware?
kitchen appliance vs kitchenware
Kitchenware means pots, pans, and dishes, not machines; a kitchen appliance is usually electric or mechanical.
Practice
Which sentence uses 'kitchen appliance' correctly?
Choose one answer.
Option 0 uses the singular countable noun with the article 'a'. The others have wrong plural agreement or article use.
Make it your own
Write a sentence using “kitchen appliance”, then check it and compare it with the examples above.