Oven
['ʌv(ə)n] or ['ʌvn]
Definition
(n.) 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.
Editor: Robert
Definition
n. an arched cavity over a fire for baking heating or drying: any apparatus used as an oven.—ns. Ov′en-bird a South American tree-creeper which builds an oven-shaped nest; Ov′en-tit the willow-warbler; Ov′en-wood brushwood.—Dutch oven a baking-pot heated by heaping coals round it.
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Unserious Contents or Definition
To see coke ovens burning, foretells some unexpected good fortune will result from failure in some enterprise.
For a woman to dream that her baking oven is red hot, denotes that she will be loved by her own family and friends, for her sweet and unselfish nature. If she is baking, temporary disappointments await her. If the oven is broken, she will undergo many vexations from children and servants.
Typist: Waldo
Unserious Contents or Definition
The only sport who enjoys an equally hot time with or without the dough.
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Examples
- Just inside the open end of the oven the floor was scooped out so as to make a hole that would hold a bucket or two of water. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- The oven filled with calcium carbide is then electrically heated with a carbon rod running through the center. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- I was shown a little kitchen with a little stove and oven, with few but bright brasses, two chairs and a table. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
- ELECTRIC LAMP-SOCKET OVEN] Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- ELECTRIC STANDARD OVEN] Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- The rails were insulated from the ties by giving them two coats of japan, baking them in the oven, and then placing them on pads of tar-impregnated muslin laid on the ties. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- This is a large oven containing shelves. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- There was room there for a dozen persons, with a little crowding, and it was as close and hot as an oven. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- Something like a bake-oven was built, large enough to admit a man lying down. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- Turning to me, as she took some loaves from the oven, she asked bluntly-- Did you ever go a-begging afore you came here? Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
- Put him in the oven, and maybe he will get warm and revive, said Amy hopefully. Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
- The same element of safety where inflammable substances are employed has produced the electric japan oven and similar apparatus. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- The axles are continually moving through this oven, and at the expiration of about forty-five minutes emerge from the far end completely baked. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- It is then placed in an incubator oven and is subjected to a gentle heat. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
- The ghastly, treeless, grassless, breathless canons smothered us as if we had been in an oven. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- The pure nitrogen then can be pumped into the fixation ovens. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- The ovens and some deep holes had been equipped as dressing stations. Ernest Hemingway. A Farewell To Arms.
- The shoes are then covered with a coat of rubber varnish, and are put into cars and run into the vulcanizing ovens, where they remain from six to seven hours at a temperature of about 275°. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
- These ovens were always built on the banks of a stream, a big spring, or pool of water. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- From the varnishing department the shoes are taken to the vulcanizers, which are large ovens heated by innumerable steam pipes. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- The ovens are highly insulated with a thick packing of best grade mineral wool, which reduces air leakage to a minimum and retains the heat generated for a long period. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- The cooking is done in great vats and in enormous electric ovens. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- From her coke ovens she indeed could derive some nitrogen, but this actually furnished only about one-fifth of her total requirements. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- We have already mentioned how an electrical engineer, shortly after placing irons in the homes of his customers, followed them with a number of small stoves and ovens. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- About one hundred electric cooking sets were manufactured, consisting of ovens and crude round stoves. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- Many cooking operations which are performed in ordinary ovens with the burners on, can be prepared in this particular style of oven by using stored heat for the last half of the operation. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
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