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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
oven
noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a gas cooker/oven/stove
▪ Gas cookers are more efficient than electric ones.
an oven gloveBrE:
▪ Paul used the oven glove to take the hot tray out of the oven.
combination oven
convection oven
Dutch oven
Preheat...oven
▪ Preheat the oven to 375 degrees.
the fridge/oven door
▪ Steam came out as I opened the oven door.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
conventional
▪ Our verdict: Ideal if you have a conventional oven.
▪ Purists argue against roasting in a conventional oven because the closed space traps moisture, adversely affecting the roasting process.
▪ Their measurements are less than those of standard ovens, although built-in models are the same width as built-in conventional ovens.
▪ Alternatively, to cook in a conventional oven, place the chicken and mushrooms in an ovenproof dish.
▪ Our verdict: Versatile, offering a high degree of control, with all the benefits of a well-built conventional oven.
▪ It can be baked in your conventional oven or, for speed and efficiency, in the microwave.
▪ Spoon into mould and level top. 4 Bake the cake Following chart above either bake in conventional oven or microwave.
▪ As a result, says Clark, TurboChef ovens cook up to 10 times faster than conventional ovens.
hot
▪ Just stick them in a hot oven.
▪ I ran inside to find the house as hot as an oven and Janir on the edge of tears.
▪ They are used on hot surfaces and are often marketed as hot oven cleaners.
▪ In summer it was as hot as an oven, you could roast to death.
▪ According to the packet, the chicken Kievs only took about twenty minutes in a hot oven.
▪ One time he put an aerosol can inside a hot oven.
▪ Putting puppies and kittens into hot ovens 3.
▪ If you observe this, immediately put the loaf back into the hot oven for about 10 minutes.
low
▪ Place on a baking tray lined with folded newspaper on the lowest shelf of oven.
▪ Dry them out overnight or in a low oven, toasting them until the moisture is gone.
▪ Put a few drops of natural vanilla essence into a pan of water and place in a low oven.
▪ Fries can be done ahead and reheated in a low oven.
▪ Remove the chicken pieces from the pan and keep warm, in a low oven, covered with foil.
▪ I put an almond croissant in a low oven for him.
▪ Trim crusts and leave bread at the bottom of a very low oven for several hours until crisp and pale brown.
▪ Place on a baking sheet and bake in a very low oven until crisp.
main
▪ This includes a minute minder facility and provides full automatic control of the main oven.
preheat
▪ The next day, preheat the oven to 350 degrees.
▪ Prepare a fire in a charcoal grill, preheat oven to 450 F. or preheat broiler.
▪ Season with salt. Preheat oven 450 F.. Season quail with salt and pepper and rub with butter.
preheated
▪ Bake in a preheated oven at 180C, 350F or Gas Mark 4 for 30 minutes.
▪ Place in preheated oven and bake for 2 hours.
▪ Bake in a preheated oven at 190C, 375F or Gas Mark 5 for 10 minutes or until light golden.
▪ Place in preheated oven and bake until silo is crisp and brown, about 30 minutes.
▪ Cover and cook in preheated oven for 45 minutes.
▪ Bake in a preheated oven at 200C, 400F or Gas Mark 6 for 10-12 minutes.
▪ Bake in preheated oven until juices run clear when top is pierced, about 1 hour.
warm
▪ Wipe dry and place in a warm oven for a few minutes to remove any remaining moisture.
▪ Remove and cover with foil or put in a warm oven.
▪ A croissant warm from the oven, a cup of good coffee and a tumbler of just-squeezed orange juice costs under £1.
▪ You can lightly toast the seeds in a warm oven.
■ NOUN
brick
▪ The baker, with his back to her, was shovelling more loaves from the brick oven.
▪ On a small scale it re-creates the effects of a brick oven on a loaf of bread.
▪ Building a brick oven is one way to tap into that worldview.
▪ I will admit, however, that brick ovens do make exceptional breads with great crust.
combination
▪ Microwave combination ovens can successfully prime cook fresh and frozen foods and regenerate ready cooked dishes from chilled and frozen.
▪ These qualities can be found in environment-friendly fridges and freezers, microwave or combination ovens, and energy saving washing machines.
▪ The combination oven is available in all sizes from the compact to the larger industrial models.
convection
▪ This process is much simpler and quicker than cleaning a convection oven.
▪ Roasting in a convection oven, which circulates hot air over the surface of the food, works beautifully.
▪ Care should be exercised with convection ovens to prevent solution ingress to the motor.
▪ It can be used as a forced air convection oven alone - forced air being faster than conventional static hot air.
door
▪ What chance has your soufflé got when you open the oven door?
▪ He bundles up his white uniform, throws it into the fire, slams the oven door.
▪ She heard the sound of Albert's footsteps approaching, heaved her bulk from the chair, and opened the oven door.
▪ Bake for 35 minutes without opening the oven door, as cake may fall.
▪ Pulling the oven door open, she chased away all thoughts of him.
▪ She opened the oven door and slid the pan of biscuits in.
▪ Now Gretel with a gleeful roar Slams shut the open oven door.
▪ Alice said, opening the oven door to check on the roast surrounded with potatoes, onions and carrots.
gas
▪ If you have a gas oven, you may use a special lighter wand to spark it off.
▪ Saturday night I always do the gas oven out.
▪ I knew that occasionally people put their heads in gas ovens, but there was no mention of that.
▪ His sister-in-law kills hers, along with its two small cousins, before swallowing poison herself sooner than surrender to the gas ovens.
▪ The blast - triggered when Alan lit his gas oven - had ripped off his clothes.
▪ Jimmy popped into the scullery then to turn the mutton chops in the pan in the gas oven.
▪ A month later she stuck her head into a gas oven.
▪ She even forgot about Rab, pondering between the river and the gas oven.
heat
▪ Pre-#heat oven to 375 degrees.
▪ For the egg wash: 1 egg 2 tablespoons water Heat oven to 375 degrees.
microwave
▪ The hearing continues today. Microwave oven danger list fails to satisfy critics.
▪ When and where did you buy your microwave oven, and how much did it cost?
▪ Our recipes were tested in the 850W Toshiba combination microwave oven.
▪ The suppliers were billed for 154 microwave ovens, the charges said, and Dawe and McGarr split the money.
▪ Redundant parts were extensively used to ensure reliability, yet the whole unit was little bigger than a large microwave oven.
▪ A microwave oven, Loretta guessed.
▪ They had microwave ovens where he was able to heat up a portion of hot food to eat in the car.
temperature
▪ Dry, crisp cakes are often the result of an oven temperature that is too hot.
▪ Reduce oven temperature to 325 degrees.
▪ Then reduce the oven temperature to 190°C, 375°F, Gas 5 and cook for a further 20 to 15 min.
▪ Reduce oven temperature to 350 degrees and bake 10 minutes more or until crust is golden brown.
■ VERB
bake
▪ Cover and bake in a preheated oven at 180C, 350F or Gas Mark 4 for 25-45 minutes.
▪ Spread the mixture over chocolate and bake in oven at 400F or Gas Mark 5 until golden brown and set.
▪ Place in 13-by-9-inch baking dish. Bake in 350-degree oven for 1 hour.&038;.
▪ Sprinkle the cheese on top. Bake in a preheated oven at 200C, 400F or Gas Mark 6 for 20 minutes.
▪ Large solar collectors would be deployed, probably on roving processing plants, to focus sunlight on to the baking ovens.
▪ On special events days up to 120 loaves are baked in the bread oven, thus demonstrating the soundness of its reconstruction.
▪ As the dough bakes in the oven, the moisture in the fat creates steam.
cook
▪ The food is then pushed out of its protective package and left in its serving dish to be cooked in a hot-air oven.
▪ Cover and cook in preheated oven for 45 minutes.
▪ Cover and cook in a preheated oven at 180C, 350F or Gas Mark 4 for 20-30 minutes.
▪ Alternatively, to cook in a conventional oven, place the chicken and mushrooms in an ovenproof dish.
▪ Cover and cook in the oven for twenty minutes or so. 4.
▪ Who would want to cook with an oven such as this?
▪ Four thick slices cooked slowly in the oven in a small covered pyrex casserole with salt and black pepper.
open
▪ What chance has your soufflé got when you open the oven door?
▪ Bake for 35 minutes without opening the oven door, as cake may fall.
▪ She opened the oven door and slid the pan of biscuits in.
▪ Alice said, opening the oven door to check on the roast surrounded with potatoes, onions and carrots.
▪ He got up and opened the oven door, checking the sweet rolls, which he apparently decided were not quite done.
▪ Avoid opening oven door when baking over a period of time.
▪ Stafford opened the oven, releasing a burst of delicious smells.
▪ When opening the oven door, avert your head to avoid the blast of steam.
place
▪ Firstly, it is placed into the oven on the steam mode for one-third of its cooking cycle.
▪ Fill pan with boiling water to come two-thirds up sides of terrine. Place in preheated oven and bake for 2 hours.
▪ Brush each bun with a little beaten egg, then place in the pre-heated oven.
▪ Spread out to a single layer. Place in oven and bake 12 minutes.
▪ Cover and place in a preheated oven at 180C, 350F or Gas Mark 4 for 10 minutes.
▪ Cover and place in preheated oven until tender, about 1 hour.
put
▪ Now some rolls I put in the oven for dinner have burned!
▪ Remove and cover with foil or put in a warm oven.
▪ Hold-warm puts the oven on a low power level to keep food warm for 15 minutes or more.
▪ She wrapped the turkey in the foil and put it in the oven.
▪ First, make the pies and put them in the oven.
▪ Transfer fillets to a baking sheet and put in oven.
▪ Turntable is recessed into oven floor, so it's less likely to be knocked as dishes are put into the oven.
▪ E 4. Put it in the oven and bake it for 30 minutes.
remove
▪ Cover the pie with foil and bake for a further 35 minutes. Remove from the oven and allow to cool.
▪ If liquid reduces too much, add more stock. Remove pan from oven and lift out rabbit pieces.
▪ Cook until golden brown and crisp. Remove from the oven and leave to cool completely.
▪ Cover and cook in preheated oven for 45 minutes. Remove from oven and let cool to room temperature.
▪ Remove the mixture from heat. Remove cooked cake from oven and leave the cake in the tin.
▪ After this, the bread is removed from the oven but it is still drying out.
▪ Bake until browned, about 30 minutes. Remove from oven and leave to cool in tin for 5 minutes.
▪ Remember that the temperature continues to rise after the bird is removed from the oven.
return
▪ Place chicken in the hot fat and baste thoroughly. Return to the oven for 40 minutes, basting occasionally.
▪ Sprinkle with caster sugar and return to the oven for about 5 minutes for a crunchy, sweet finish.
▪ Mix together applesauce, salt, and egg yolks and pour over apples. Return to oven for 5 minutes longer.
▪ Unwrap the turkey and return to the oven for a further 30min to brown, basting occasionally.
▪ Mix thoroughly and replace in potato skins. Return to the oven for ten minutes to heat through before serving.
▪ Place the orange quarters on top of the lamb and return to the oven for 15 minutes.
▪ Pour in the cornmeal mixture. Return pan to oven and increase heat to 220 °C gas mark 7.
roast
▪ He would float these across the kitchen to her while implacably she checked the meat roasting in the oven for lunch.
▪ Purists argue against roasting in a conventional oven because the closed space traps moisture, adversely affecting the roasting process.
▪ Alternatively, roast in preheated oven for 7 to 9 minutes or place under broiler for 3 to 4 minutes per side.
▪ She roasted wheat in the oven and ground it by hand in an old coffee grinder for our breakfast cereal.
▪ Place boar in a roasting pan and add water to pan. Roast in preheated oven for 40 minutes.
turn
▪ He turned the oven on to 250 and put the okra and the edenwort on to a low heat.
▪ Cover loosely with foil. Turn off the oven and place the platter in the oven, with the door open.
▪ She turned the oven off and went to call them.
▪ How you gon na cook biscuits with-out turning on the oven?
▪ You will be able to turn on your oven from your office computer: machine will talk to machine.&038;.
▪ Bake in 375-degree oven 35 minutes. Turn oven off, and leave in for one more hour.
use
▪ All three stores sell rotisserie-roasted chickens and you pay dearly for the luxury of using their ovens.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a slow oven
▪ Toast the slices in a slow oven until they are crisp.
have a bun in the oven
▪ Do I look like I have a bun in the oven?
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Bake in a preheated oven at 190C, 375F or Gas Mark 5 for 10 minutes or until light golden.
▪ Put a cookie sheet on the oven rack during preheating.
▪ Saturday night I always do the gas oven out.
▪ The blazing summer sun can turn their black-and-white Ford Broncos into wheeled ovens.
▪ There was a pot on the stove, a casserole in the oven, and a note on the counter.
▪ Top with the mashed potato and bake in a preheated oven at 190C, 375F or Gas Mark 5 for 30 minutes.
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The Collaborative International Dictionary
oven

Appliance \Ap*pli"ance\, n.

  1. The act of applying; application.

  2. subservience; compliance. [Obs.]
    --Shak.

  3. A thing applied or used as a means to an end; an apparatus or device; as, to use various appliances; a mechanical appliance; a machine with its appliances.

  4. Specifically: An apparatus or device, usually powered electrically, used in homes to perform domestic functions. An appliance is often categorized as a major appliance or a minor appliance by its cost. Common major appliances are the refrigerator, washing machine, clothes drier, oven, and dishwasher. Some minor appliances are a toaster, vacuum cleaner or microwave oven.

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Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
oven

Old English ofen "furnace, oven," from Proto-Germanic *ukhnaz (cognates: Old Frisian, Dutch oven, Old High German ovan, German Ofen, Old Norse ofn, Old Swedish oghn, Gothic auhns), from PIE *aukw- "cooking pot" (cognates: Sanskrit ukhah "pot, cooking pot," Latin aulla "pot," Greek ipnos), originally, perhaps, "something hollowed out." The oven-bird (1825) so called because of the shape of its nest. In slang, of a woman, to have (something) in the oven "to be pregnant" is attested from 1962.

Wiktionary
oven

n. A chamber used for baking or heating.

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WordNet
oven

n. kitchen appliance used for baking or roasting

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Wikipedia
Oven

An oven is a thermally insulated chamber used for the heating, baking or drying of a substance, and most commonly used for cooking. Kilns and furnaces are special-purpose ovens, used in pottery and metalworking, respectively.

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Usage examples of "oven".

Her father had given it to her as it came from the annealing oven, still warm after long hours of cooling with many others like it.

Take up one of the large flagstones behind the annealing oven, and dig a hole underneath it in the ground.

The sunlight streamed through a window high above the floor and fell upon the arched back of the annealing oven, the window being so placed that the sun could never shine upon the working end and dazzle the workmen.

Giovanni moved a step forward and spoke directly to one of the men who had just dropped a finished glass into the bed of soft wood ashes, to be taken to the annealing oven.

In a moment it would be finished and ready to go to the annealing oven, though he was even then reflecting that the workmen would certainly break it up as soon as the foreman turned his back.

In the meantime, fearing lest Giovanni might think of sending him out at any moment, he waited till Pasquale had brought him water in the morning, and then raised the stone, as he had done before, took the box out of the earth and hid it in the cool end of the annealing oven, while he replaced the slab.

When he judged that he had taken out more than half the contents, he took the iron box from the annealing oven.

He would have set it in the annealing oven, but he wished to try the weight of it, and he let it cool.

A marvellous dish with upturned edge and ornamented foot was the next thing he made, and he placed it at once in the annealing oven.

With a forked stick he took the beaker from the ashes and placed it in the annealing oven.

Zorzi had not put it into the annealing oven because it had been allowed to get quite cold, so that the annealing would have been imperfect.

I therefore offered to buy the beaker he was making and I put down a piece of money, and the said Zorzi, called the Ballarin, a liar, a thief and an assassin, took the said piece of money, and set the said beaker within the annealing oven of the said furnace, wherein I saw many other pieces of fine workmanship, and he said that I should have the said beaker when it was annealed.

In the morning, if he drew the iron tray further down the annealing oven, the glass would be ready to be taken out, and Giovanni could take it if he pleased, for he knew whose it was.

When he came to the laboratory, he saw that the window was now shut, as well as the door, and that Giovanni had set the lamp on the floor behind the further end of the annealing oven.

He glanced at the furnace next, and recollected that the precious pieces Zorzi had made were in the annealing oven.