oven
oven (uv′ən)
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
n.
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
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.
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