Definition of Oven

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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

I have avoided becoming stale by putting a little water on the plate, lying on the plate, and having myself refreshed in a toaster oven for 23 minutes once every month.
Dean Koontz

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

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

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

I've got nine kids, nine dogs, three grandkids - and one in the oven. And three parrots!
Michael Landon

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

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

Orphans, dead parents, lonely children at Christmas, morose spoken word recordings, everything you love about the holidays. Move the turkey over so you can fit your head in the oven.
April Winchell

A cake is a very good test of an oven: if it browns too much on one side and not on the other, it's not your fault - you need to have your oven checked.
Delia Smith

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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