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Definition of Oven
Oven

A place arched over with brick or stonework, and used for baking, heating, or drying; hence, any structure, whether fixed or portable, which may be heated for baking, drying, etc.; esp., now, a chamber in a stove, used for baking or roasting.

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Oven Quotations

I put instant coffee in a microwave oven and almost went back in time.
Steven Wright

We light the oven so that everyone may bake bread in it.
Jose Marti

If I survive, I will spend my whole life at the oven door seeing that no one is denied bread and, so as to give a lesson of charity, especially those who did not bring flour.
Jose Marti

I read The Bell Jar, and then I read her memoir and her diaries, and a third book, an outside opinion. Just the way she made the pillows so neat on the oven door. It just seems to be the opposite of, if you're going to take your life, in a horrible rage it happens.
Paul Westerberg

With optimism, you look upon the sunny side of things. People say, 'Studs, you're an optimist.' I never said I was an optimist. I have hope because what's the alternative to hope? Despair? If you have despair, you might as well put your head in the oven.
Studs Terkel

Oven Translations

oven in Danish is ovn
oven in Dutch is kachel, oven
oven in Finnish is uuni
oven in German is Ofen, Backofen {m}, Ofen {m}
oven in Italian is stufa
oven in Latin is fornax, clibanus
oven in Norwegian is ovn
oven in Portuguese is forno
oven in Spanish is horno, estufa
oven in Swedish is ugn


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