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oven

Definitions, parts of speech, synonyms, and sentence examples for oven.

Editorial note

No, humans are as likely to arrive at the truths as ants an understanding of a microwave oven.

Examples15
Definitions3
Parts of speech2

Quick take

A chamber used for baking or heating.

Meaning at a glance

The clearest senses and uses of oven gathered in one view.

noun

A chamber used for baking or heating.

verb

(transitive, colloquial, informal) To cook in an oven.

noun

(colloquial, figurative) A very hot place.

Definitions

Core meanings and parts of speech for oven.

noun

A chamber used for baking or heating.

verb

(transitive, colloquial, informal) To cook in an oven.

noun

(colloquial, figurative) A very hot place.

Example sentences

1

No, humans are as likely to arrive at the truths as ants an understanding of a microwave oven.

2

You could make a million dollars a year but you couldn't have a microwave oven before it was invented.

3

Comparing a grill to an oven is like comparing a passenger car to a panel truck: they are in the same broad class of thing but serve different purposes.

4

Is it preferable to accept a tiny slice of a large pie, or decide pre-emptively not to put the pie in the oven?

5

Oily fish like salmon or steelhead trout can be cooked easily with just a few minutes under the broiler, and while the oven is hot you can bake some root veggies or green beans.

6

What if I want an oven I can choose to grill with because I like grilling?

7

Microwave oven is over twenty as well, but as the internal light has failed I suppose it doesn't quite count.

8

Set a typical microwave oven to 90% and you will see the magnetron 100% on for perhaps 15 seconds and 0% on for 2 seconds.

9

It will just cook you like meat in a microwave oven.

10

And of course the microwave oven was conceived when a guy walked in front of an operating radar and it melted the chocolate bar in his pocket.

11

Yes, an oven and a grill both cook food.

12

When camping we use a simple water agitator to wash clothes, and we can bake bread in the noon day sun and a solar oven.

Quote examples

1

I think every microwave oven i've seen has settings like "high, low" or "600W, 750W"..

2

No, I'm not saying that this solar oven effect is the problem with the busses under discussion, but its a real and easily observable effect which is sufficient to refute your "only one way for that to happen" suggestion.

3

Our test campaign cannot confirm or refute the claims of the EMDrive..." Given that this is a 700W microwave oven putting out a tiny amount of thrust, and that a positive finding would invalidate a basic conservation law, my money is on those wires.

Frequently asked questions

Short answers drawn from the clearest meanings and examples for this word.

How do you use oven in a sentence?

No, humans are as likely to arrive at the truths as ants an understanding of a microwave oven.

What does oven mean?

A chamber used for baking or heating.

What part of speech is oven?

oven is commonly used as noun, verb.