a localized area of diseased tissue or the focus of an infection

kitchen stove or cooking appliance

stovetop; rangetop

a mess hall or dining facility providing better food for high-ranking cadres or specific personnel

to start from scratch or return to square one after a previous attempt has failed or been abandoned

Zaoshen, the god of the kitchen

Zaoshen, the god of the kitchen

a cooking apparatus consisting of a pot or wok and the stove or burner beneath it

to receive preferential treatment or individualized instruction, often in an educational or professional context

to lose status, influence, or power; to be in decline

(dialect) kitchen

a room or area where food is prepared

(dialect) kitchen

to provide additional instruction or special attention to help someone catch up or excel, particularly in an academic context

old-style large kitchen stove

Zaoshen, the god of the kitchen

to start over from scratch (idiom)

A traditional rite of seeing off the Kitchen God (Zao Shen).

A dining facility or food standard specifically reserved for mid-level cadres, positioned between the general mess and the high-level mess.

the basic dining standard in PRC institutions, typically for regular employees or students, as opposed to those for higher-ranking cadres

to offer sacrifices to the Kitchen God

to surpass one's father

a kitchen (in a restaurant, school cafeteria etc) in which food preparation processes are made visible to customers (by means of transparent glass, live video etc) to promote hygiene and ensure accountability in food safety practices

literally 'meals prepared at separate stoves', a slogan for the program of fiscal decentralization that began in the 1980s in the PRC

(dialect) kitchen

Zaoshen, the god of the kitchen

stovetop burner

(medicine) focal

Vesta, an asteroid, second most massive object in the asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter, discovered in 1807 by H.W. Olbers

a household fireplace or stove