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
- 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
- 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.
- Cakes rise without yeast, using baking powder or whisked eggs to trap gas that expands in the oven heat.
Trees and pragmatics
Every meaning and example of «oven» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.