Meaning of oven | Babel Free

Definitions

1. A chamber used for baking or heating.
2. A very hot place.
   colloquial, figuratively
3. furnace
4. A chamber or enclosed compartment for heating, baking, or roasting food, as in a stove, or for firing, baking, hardening, or drying objects, as in a kiln.
5. a very hot place
6. a chamber, as in a stove, for baking, roasting, heating, or drying.
7. a closed box-like space, usually part of a cooker, which is heated for cooking food. She put the cake into the oven. oond فُرْن фурна forno pec der Ofen ovn φούρνοςhorno ahi فر uuni fourתנור भट्टी pećnica sütő pemanggangan ofn forno オーブン 오븐 krosnis, orkaitė krāsns; cepeškrāsns ketuhar ovenovnpiekarnik منقل، نغرى forno cuptor духовка rúra pečica rerna ugn เตาอบ fırın 烤箱，烤爐，灶 піч; духовка تنور، بھٹي lò nướng 烤箱，烤炉，灶
   usually
8. (Cookery) an enclosed heated compartment or receptacle for baking or roasting food
9. a similar device, usually lined with a refractory material, used for drying substances, firing ceramics, heat-treating, etc
10. (tr) to cook in an oven
    tr
11. A. N → horno mit's like an oven in there → aquello es un horno
    N
12. B. CPD oven glove N → guante m para el horno, manopla f para el hornooven tray N → bandeja f para horno
    CPD
13. n (Cook) → (Back)ofen m; (Tech) (for drying) → (Trocken)ofen m; (for baking pottery etc) → (Brenn)ofen m; to put something in the oven → etw in den Ofen tun or stecken; put it in the oven for two hours → backen Sie es zwei Stunden; pottery → brennen Sie es zwei Stunden; to cook in a hot or quick/moderate/slow oven → bei starker/mittlerer/schwacher Hitze backen; it’s like an oven in here → hier ist ja der reinste Backofen
    n
14. adj dish → ofenfertig
    adj dish

Equivalents

Examples

“Baby I'm hot just like an oven / I need some lovin'”

“The ballroom that evening was an absolute oven. I probably perspired more dancing then during the afternoon ballgame.”

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