hot pad
hot pad — noun
1. A small thick square of cloth that you put beneath hot pans or grip around hot h
A small thick square of cloth that you put beneath hot pans or grip around hot handles, so that heat does not burn your hands or damage a surface.
Uncle Ricardo grabbed a hot pad before lifting the cast-iron skillet off the stove.
collocation: grab a hot pad / lift [hot cookware]
The table got a burn mark because nobody set a hot pad under the dish.
use: put a hot pad under [hot dish] to protect a surface
Ms. Patel keeps a stack of quilted hot pads in the drawer beside the oven.
A good hot pad blocks the heat of a baking tray straight from the oven.
The camp cook dropped the pot because the thin hot pad let the steam through.
- oven mitt
A glove-shaped hot pad that covers the whole hand and wrist; more common in British English.
- trivet
A metal or ceramic stand placed under a hot dish, rather than a padded cloth; used mostly for table protection, not for handling cookware.
- potholder
A general term for any small thick pad used for holding hot cookware; often used interchangeably with 'hot pad' in American English.
文法句型
a + hot pad
hot pad + (for) + noun phrase
用法筆記
In British English the same object is usually called an 'oven glove' or 'oven mitt'. 'Hot pad' is the standard term in American English and often refers to a flat square or rectangle, whereas an oven mitt covers the hand like a glove.