hob
hob — noun
1. The flat cooking area on top of a cooker, used for heating pans.
The flat cooking area on top of a cooker, used for heating pans.
Ritu placed the heavy pot on the hob and lit the gas.
place + on the hob
The hob stayed hot for a long time after Jack switched it off.
hob as subject: stay hot
There was a pan of soup already bubbling on the front hob.
Talia wiped the glass hob clean with a damp cloth after cooking.
A blue flame shot up from the hob as soon as Indra pressed the button.
用法筆記
In American English, this is called a stovetop or cooktop.
常見錯誤
2. A metal shelf built into the side of an old-fashioned fireplace, used for keepin
A metal shelf built into the side of an old-fashioned fireplace, used for keeping pans warm or heating them.
In the old cottage, a kettle sat on the hob beside the crackling fire.
collocation: on the hob (fireplace context)
Kian warmed his hands near the hob while the stew heated slowly.
near the hob
The iron hob by the fireplace was blackened from years of use.
Yuki kept a pot of tea warm on the hob all afternoon.
A small pan of milk sat on the hob, steaming gently in the firelight.
3. A hard steel engineering tool that shapes the teeth on gears and worm wheels.
A hard steel engineering tool that shapes the teeth on gears and worm wheels.
The engineer set up the hob on the machine before cutting the gear.
collocation: set up the hob
Caleb watched the hob cut precise teeth into the steel wheel.
hob cut + teeth into + object
A worn hob can ruin a gear and waste hours of work in the workshop.
Tunde ordered a new hob to replace the one that had gone blunt.
Each tooth of the gear was shaped by the rotating hob in a single pass.
- gear cutter
a broader category of tool; a hob is one specific type of gear cutter
4. A small supernatural creature from folklore, similar to a hobgoblin or elf, know
A small supernatural creature from folklore, similar to a hobgoblin or elf, known for playing tricks on people.
The old storyteller told a tale about a hob that moved the chairs while the family slept.
that-clause describing hob's actions
Farmers left out a bowl of milk for the hob to stop it from causing trouble.
leave out... for the hob
Sven read the children a story about a hob who hid keys and untied shoelaces.
In the legend, a hob lived behind the kitchen fire and guarded the house at night.
The villagers blamed the hob whenever tools went missing from the workshop.
hob — verb
- hobpresent simple I / you / we / they
- hobs3rd person singular
- hobbing-ing form
- hobbedpast simple
1. To cut gear teeth using a hob, the steel cutting tool.
To cut gear teeth using a hob, the steel cutting tool.
The machinist hobbed the gear blank in under three minutes.
hob + object (the gear blank)
The trainee learned how to hob teeth into a steel wheel at trade school.
hob + teeth into + object
Basma hobbed a replacement gear for the lathe, checking every tooth with a steel gauge.
The workshop hobs several hundred gears every week for the car factory.
文法句型
hob + object