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Oven Definition & Meaning

1. An enclosed compartment used for cooking or baking food by applying heat from gas, electricity, or wood.

Example: I baked a cake in the oven for my friend's birthday.

2. A heating device used for industrial or laboratory purposes, such as drying or curing materials.

Example: The laboratory technician used the oven to dry the chemical samples.

3. A piece of equipment used for heating or drying objects, such as pottery or glassware, in a kiln.

Example: The pottery maker fired the clay pots in the oven to harden them.

4. A container used for heating or warming food, such as a dutch oven or a roasting pan.

Example: I cooked a pot roast in the dutch oven on the stove.

5. A slang term for a prison or jail.

Example: The criminal was sentenced to ten years in the oven.

Examples of the word oven used in sentences.

  • I will warm up the bread in the oven.
  • The roast chicken smelled delicious in the oven.
  • I baked cookies in the oven.
  • The pizza is cooking in the oven.
  • Don't touch the oven, it's very hot.
  • I need to clean the oven because there's a lot of grease and grime inside.
  • I always preheat the oven to 180 degrees Celsius when I bake cookies.
  • I burned my hand on the oven door when I was taking out the lasagna.
  • My mom uses the oven to roast the turkey for Thanksgiving every year.
  • My apartment doesn't have a microwave, so I cook my frozen meals in the oven.
  • My favorite way to cook salmon is by baking it in the oven with some lemon and herbs.
  • We need to clean the oven before using it again, it's covered in grease and dirt.
  • Please don't touch the hot oven without oven mitts, it can burn you badly.
  • I preheated the oven to 180 degrees Celsius before baking the cake.
  • Do you have any leftover pizza that I can reheat in the oven?
  • When I moved into my apartment, the landlord gave me an old oven that doesn't heat up evenly, and it's been a bit of a challenge to cook with.
  • The holiday season calls for lots of baking, and my oven is working overtime.
  • I'm planning to bake a chocolate cake for my friend's birthday in my new oven.
  • I'm considering buying a countertop oven for my small kitchen, so I don't have to rely on my conventional oven all the time.
  • After work, I like to prep meals in advance and pop them in the oven for easy weeknight dinners.
  • When my friend heard that I had never made homemade bread before, she invited me over to her house and walked me through the entire process, from mixing the dough to letting it rise in the heated oven.
  • As someone who loves baking, I invested in a professional-grade oven that can handle multiple trays of pastries at once.
  • Cleaning the oven is one of my least favorite household chores because it always seems to take forever to scrub away all the grease and grime.
  • Whenever I'm feeling lazy and want a quick meal, I just pop a frozen pizza in the oven and wait for it to cook through.
  • It's always a bit of a challenge to figure out how to cook a turkey in a small oven, but a little creativity and some aluminum foil usually does the trick.
  • A malfunctioning oven can be a real nightmare for a professional chef, especially if they're trying to prepare for a large catering event.
  • My grandmother's recipe for lasagna requires several hours of baking time in the oven, but the result is well worth the wait.
  • After years of using a traditional oven, the switch to a convection oven has made a tremendous difference in my baking results.
  • One of the downsides of living in a small apartment is that our oven is too tiny to fit anything but the most miniature of baking dishes.
  • The aroma of freshly baked bread wafting from the oven is one of the most comforting and homely scents.
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