Definition

1. Noun:
   • A kitchen appliance used for baking or roasting: An enclosed compartment, typically part of a stove or a standalone unit, that uses dry heat to cook food. It is used for baking bread, cakes, and pastries, or for roasting meats and vegetables.

Usage

• An oven is a common household appliance. It is used with the prepositions "in" or "into" (e.g., ). It is often modified by its type (e.g., , , ) or its function (e.g., ).

Examples

• Noun:
  • Preheat the oven to 180°C before baking the cake.
  • She took the roasted chicken out of the oven.
  • Modern kitchens often have a microwave and a conventional oven.

Advanced Usage

• "like an oven": used to describe an extremely hot place or environment.
  • With no air conditioning, the small room was like an oven.
• "out of the oven": freshly baked or cooked.
  • These cookies are straight out of the oven and still warm.

Variants and Related Words

• Ovenproof (adj): (of a dish or cookware) able to withstand the heat of an oven without breaking.
  • Use an ovenproof dish for this casserole.
• Ovenware (n): dishes or containers designed for use in an oven.
• Oven-bake (v): to cook something in an oven.
  • You can oven-bake the fish with herbs.

Synonyms

• Stove (though a stove often includes burners on top and an oven below).
• Kiln (a high-temperature oven for baking clay or drying materials, not typically for food).
• Furnace (an industrial heating device, much hotter than a kitchen oven).

Related Phrases

• To have a bun in the oven (idiom, informal): to be pregnant.
  • They just announced that they have a bun in the oven.
• Oven-ready (adj): (of food) prepared so that it is ready to be cooked in an oven.
  • We bought an oven-ready turkey for the holiday.

Noun

1. kitchen appliance used for baking or roasting