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I. (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:
"You'll find breakfast in the oven," she said hurriedly.
(Martin Eden, by Jack London)
The great oven is not so wide, by ten paces, as the cupola at St. Paul’s: for I measured the latter on purpose, after my return.
(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)
"Put him in the oven, and maybe he will get warm and revive," said Amy hopefully.
(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)
In addition, it regulates radiation-emitting electronic products (medical and non-medical) such as lasers, x-ray systems, ultrasound equipment, microwave ovens and color televisions.
(Center for Devices and Radiological Health, NCI Thesaurus)
But you shall have some breakfast! said I, with my hand on the bell-rope, and Mrs. Crupp shall make you some fresh coffee, and I'll toast you some bacon in a bachelor's Dutch-oven, that I have got here.
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
Like her sister she awoke in the beautiful meadow, and walked over it till she came to the oven.
(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)
Baker Street was like an oven, and the glare of the sunlight upon the yellow brickwork of the house across the road was painful to the eye.
(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
Diana, as she passed in and out, in the course of preparing tea, brought me a little cake, baked on the top of the oven.
(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)
He thawed some sour-dough biscuits in the oven, at the same time heating a pot of beans he had boiled the night before and that had ridden frozen on the sled all morning.
(Love of Life and Other Stories, by Jack London)
Sallie began to laugh, but Meg nodded and lifted her eyebrows as high as they would go, which caused the apparition to vanish and put the sour bread into the oven without further delay.
(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)
