Questions about example sentences with, and the definition and usage of "Hob"

A: the burner we use to heat the pot and cook the food. “You put the pot on the hob and wait until it boils.”

A: socialize, meet people

A: It is most used to mean the metal electrical or gas appliance used for cooking on using saucepans.

A: I think that the hob is the hot piece of metal at the top of the stove, whereas the stove is the box containing the fire, with a hob and perhaps an oven, and boiler attached too.

Put the pan on the hob for me will you.
Please put some wood in the stove before you go to bed to keep warm at night.

A: Same thing but hob is British. I would stick to cooker unless there’s a reason to use hob

A: they both mean the same thing, the first phrase sounds more natural

A: Both would be fine. Hob specifically refers to the surfaces.

A: no

A: the phrase "hump day" doesn't exist in the UK, or at least I've never heard it here, so to me it always sounds sexual, like "a day for humping" rather than "the day that is the hump of the week".

The slang meaning of "hump" is the only one I think of when I hear "hump day", and I honestly didn't know why Wednesday was called that until you just explained it! I just assumed there was some weird historical tradition to do with Wednesdays in America, but "getting over the hump of the week" makes a lot more sense than whatever I was imagining 😅

A: The most common meaning is the top of a stove, where you would put the pan on the heat.