oven

A closed space in a kitchen that gets hot inside and is used to cook food.

• Put the bread in the oven.
• Our oven takes ten minutes to heat up.
• Did you turn the oven off?

Common phrases: hot oven, oven door, preheat the oven, in the oven

An enclosed space where materials are baked, heated, or dried.

• The samples dried in an oven.
• Workers loaded the industrial oven with metal parts.
• This oven maintains a constant temperature during testing.

Common phrases: drying oven, industrial oven, laboratory oven

To cook food inside a heated kitchen appliance.

• We can oven the potatoes.
• He ovened the pie until it turned golden.
• Shall I oven these rolls for dinner?

Similar words: bake

Common phrases: oven a pie, oven the potatoes