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Definition of Oven

Oven

  1. 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.

Oven Quotations

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

The radiation left over from the Big Bang is the same as that in your microwave oven but very much less powerful. It would heat your pizza only to minus 271.3*C - not much good for defrosting the pizza, let alone cooking it.
Stephen Hawking

I don't exactly know what it means to be ready. A cake when the oven timer goes off? Am I fully baked, or only half-baked?
Jessica Savitch

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

We've got a wood-burning pizza oven in the garden - a luxury, I know, but it's one of the best investments I've ever made.
Gwyneth Paltrow
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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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