Noun
A relatively low-powered kitchen appliance used in lieu of a proper stove.
You can try boiling water for that spaghetti on the hot stove, but it might take a few hours.
A hotplate.
A stove with a hot element.
(figuratively, by extension) Any potentially harmful situation.
(baseball, attributive) The baseball off-season where trades take place and teams look to sign free agents.
the hot stove report
When you sit with a nice girl for two hours, you think it's only a minute. But when you sit on a hot stove for a minute, you think it's two hours. Albert Einstein
Like a piece of ice on a hot stove the poem must ride on its own melting.... Read it a hundred times it will forever keep its freshness as a metal keeps its fragrance. It can never lose its sense of a meaning that once unfolded by surprise as it went. Robert Frost
Like a piece of ice on a hot stove the poem must ride on its own melting. Robert Frost
Put your hand on a hot stove for a minute, and it seems like an hour. Sit with a pretty girl for an hour, and it seems like a minute. That's relativity. Albert Einstein
Any person of any philosophic persuasion who sits on a hot stove will verify without any intellectual argument whatsoever that he is in an undeniably low-quality situation: that the value of his predicament is negative. Robert M. Pirsig
If a cat sits on a hot stove, that cat won't sit on a hot stove again. That cat won't sit on a cold stove either. That cat just don't like stoves. Mark Twain