OVEN

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does oven mean? 

• OVEN (noun)
  The noun OVEN has 1 sense:

1. kitchen appliance used for baking or roasting

  Familiarity information: OVEN used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• OVEN (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Kitchen appliance used for baking or roasting

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Hypernyms ("oven" is a kind of...):

kitchen appliance (a home appliance used in preparing food)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "oven"):

broiler (an oven or part of a stove used for broiling)

Dutch oven (an oven consisting of a metal box for cooking in front of a fire)

gas oven (a domestic oven fueled by gas)

rotisserie (an oven or broiler equipped with a rotating spit on which meat cooks as it turns)

tandoor (a clay oven used in northern India and Pakistan)

 Context examples 

In spite of the warm weather he was crouching over a fire, and the little room was like an oven.

(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

“The door is big enough; just look, I can get in myself!” and she crept up and thrust her head into the oven.

(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)

The rock samples were analyzed by SAM, which uses an oven to heat the samples (in excess of 900 degrees Fahrenheit, or 500 degrees Celsius) to release organic molecules from the powdered rock.

(NASA Finds Ancient Organic Material, Mysterious Methane on Mars, NASA)

He put five sun-cured salmon into the oven to thaw out for the dogs, and from the water-hole filled his coffee-pot and cooking-pail.

(Love of Life and Other Stories, by Jack London)

Don't leave the stove or oven unattended when they are on.

(Fire Safety, NIH)

Everyday sources of EMFs include: • Power lines • Electrical wiring • Microwave ovens • Computers • Cell phones

(Electromagnetic Fields, NIH: National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences)

As he walked and munched the soft bread from his scrip, it seemed strange to him to feel that it was still warm from the ovens of Beaulieu.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

JPL scientists used a high-temperature "oven" to heat a mixture of hydrogen and carbon monoxide to more than 2,000 degrees Fahrenheit (1,100 Celsius), about the temperature of molten lava.

(Cooking up Alien Atmospheres on Earth, NASA)

Chronic exposure to coke oven emissions in humans results in conjunctivitis, severe dermatitis, and lesions in the respiratory and digestive-tract.

(Coke Oven Emission, NCI Thesaurus)

Turning to me, as she took some loaves from the oven, she asked bluntly—Did you ever go a-begging afore you came here?

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)