oven
part of speech
noun (oven, ovens)
meaning for a pupil
1) An oven is a box in the kitchen that gets very hot for baking and cooking. tree →
2) Anything very hot can be called an oven: «It's like an oven in here!» tree →
sense in the lessons
In maths: a place where things bake; trays per oven, baking time, temperature; batches in an oven. In everyday life and safety: baking bread and cakes, using oven gloves. In science: heat changes food, like dough rising and turning brown. In stories: the witch's oven in «Hansel and Gretel».
examples
- And when thou bringest a meal-offering baked in the oven, it shall be unleavened cakes of fine flour mingled with oil, or unleavened wafers spread with oil. (Torah LEV.2.4, JPS 1917) tree →
- And every meal-offering that is baked in the oven, and all that is dressed in the stewing-pan, and on the griddle, shall be the priest's that offereth it. (Torah LEV.7.9, JPS 1917) tree →
- When I break your staff of bread, ten women shall bake your bread in one oven, and they shall deliver your bread again by weight; and ye shall eat, and not be satisfied. (Torah LEV.26.26, JPS 1917) tree →
- Our skin is hot like an oven because of the burning heat of famine. (Writings LAM.5.10, JPS 1917) tree →
- They are all adulterers, as an oven heated by the baker, who ceaseth to stir from the kneading of the dough until it be leavened. (Prophets HOS.7.4, JPS 1917) tree →
- They are all hot as an oven, and devour their judges; all their kings are fallen, there is none among them that calleth unto Me. (Prophets HOS.7.7, JPS 1917) tree →
- The oven holds 2 trays of 12 cookies. tree →
- The cake bakes in the oven for 40 minutes. tree →
- Heat the oven to 180 degrees. tree →
- The bakery has 3 ovens. tree →
- Always use oven gloves to take out a hot tray. tree →
- Grandma bakes bread in a big brick oven. tree →
- The car was like an oven in the sun. tree →
- Ask an adult before you use the oven. tree →
- "Fetch out what there is in the oven; I'm hungry." tree →
note
A place or tool, not a count; trays per oven and time per batch give rates. Trap: the oven temperature is not part of the count of food. 180 °C is about 350 °F; recipes in the USA use Fahrenheit. Safety: never touch the inside of a hot oven; children should cook with an adult. A microwave oven heats food in a different way.
In the corpora
- Our skin is hot like an oven because of the burning heat of famine.
- Strong alkalis, like oven cleaner, can burn skin even worse than some acids, so they say "wear gloves".
- Soap is slightly alkaline and feels slippery; strong alkalis like oven cleaner can burn skin badly.
- Flatbreads like pitta and tortilla are made without yeast; pitta gets its pocket because water inside turns to steam in a hot oven.
- Bread goes stale as its starch slowly lines up and squeezes out water; warming it in the oven softens it for a while.
Trees and pragmatics
Every meaning and example of «oven» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.