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oven Definition

oven (uvən)

noun

a compartment or receptacle for baking or roasting food or for heating or drying things

Etymology: ME < OE ofen, akin to Ger < IE base *auqw-, cooking vessel > L aulla, olla

oven Synonyms

oven

n.

stove, toaster oven, rotisserie, hot-air chamber, oil burner, broiler; see also furnace, stove.

Types of ovens include: baking, coke, annealing, pottery, metallurgical, Aladdin's, charcoal, electric, gas, Egyptian, firing, bush, Dutch, beehive, drying; kiln, leer, hot-air sterilizer.

oven Usage Examples

Converse of object

  • preheat: Preheat the oven to 200 °C / 400 °F / Gas 6. Bake for about 20 minutes.
  • pre-heat: For the soufflé : Pre-heat the oven to 180C.

Preposition: at

  • c: Bake in a hot oven at 220 °C / 425 °F / Gas 7 for 15-20 minutes.

Adjective modifier

  • preheated: Place in a preheated oven at 220 C / Gas Mark 7 for 45 minutes turning a couple of times.
  • electric: Some cookers use a mixture of fuels - for example, an electric oven with gas rings on the hob.
  • pre-heated: Put the cake cases on a tray and place in the middle of the pre-heated oven for half an hour.
  • preheat: Preheat oven to Gas 7 or equivalent ( hot ).
  • wood-fired: The pizzas, cooked in a wood-fired oven, are out of this world.
  • built-in: Outside: Covered terrace around two sides of the property with built-in pizza oven.

Modifies a noun

  • fridge/freezer: Amenities/Facilities provided hob oven fridge/freezer microwave dishwasher washing machine iron/ironing board tv room fans barbecue shared pool Outside The apartment has 3 terraces.
  • dishwasher: Amenities/Facilities provided hob oven fridge/freezer microwave dishwasher washing machine iron/ironing board tv room fans barbecue shared pool Outside The apartment has 3 terraces.
  • microwave: Amenities/Facilities provided oven fridge microwave washing machine iron/ironing board cable tv tv barbecue Outside Private parking space.

Noun used with modifier

  • microwave: Simply heat in a microwave oven for two minutes or leave to warm on a radiator or water heater.
  • preheat: Method Preheat oven to 180ºC, gas mark 4. Grease a baking tray.
  • coke: He blew the whistle and Meegan moved onto the side next to the coke ovens.
  • hob: Amenities/Facilities provided hob oven fridge/freezer microwave dishwasher washing machine iron/ironing board tv room fans barbecue shared pool Outside The apartment has 3 terraces.
  • convection: He cites a method of baking the tapes in a convection oven for eight hours at 130 degrees Fahrenheit.
  • pizza: Outside: Covered terrace around two sides of the property with built-in pizza oven.

Preposition: with

  • hob: The kitchen is fully fitted and contains an electric fan assisted oven with gas hob, fridge, freezer, microwave.
  • grill: Built-in electric fan assisted double oven with a grill, four plate electric hob and an extractor hood.
oven Quotes

For, behold, the day cometh, that shall burn as an oven; Daniel and all the proud, yea, and all that do wickedly, shall be stubble: and the day that cometh shall burn them up, saith the L of hosts, that it shall leave them neither root nor branch.But untoyou that fear my nameshall the Sun of righteousness arise with healing in his wings; and ye shall go forth, and grow up as calves of the stall.

—Bible (Old Testament)

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