oven
gb/ˈʌvən/ us/ˈʌvən/
A2
Inglese
~ 6300
Accezioni
0 accezioni
Sostantivo
A2
entity
1
Kitchen appliance for baking and roasting
A closed machine in the kitchen that gets very hot and is used to bake or roast food.
Schema d'uso:
an oven for [baking/roasting food]
Errore comune:
Learners often confuse 'oven' with 'stove'. In many varieties of English, 'stove' or 'cooker' means the whole cooking unit (burners plus oven), while 'oven' is only the closed, hot part used for baking or roasting. Some also confuse 'oven' with 'microwave'; a microwave oven cooks with microwave energy and is usually called just a 'microwave' in everyday speech.
Sinonimi
stove (In everyday speech, especially in North American English, this can refer to the whole cooking unit (burners plus oven), not only the oven part.)
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cooker (Mainly in British English for the whole kitchen unit; includes the oven and the hob, so it is broader than just 'oven'.)
Contrari
refrigerator (A kitchen appliance that keeps food cold, the opposite function of heating food in an oven.)
Collocazioni
preheat the oven
|put [something] in the oven
|take [something] out of the oven
|electric oven
|gas oven
|convection oven
Temi
daily life
|cooking
|home
|food_drink
|daily_life
Esempi
- She slid the cookies into the oven and set a timer for twelve minutes.
- The recipe says to bake the chicken in a hot oven for forty minutes.
- We bought a new electric oven because the old one stopped heating evenly.
- Be careful when you open the oven door; the steam can burn you.
- He forgot that the pizza was still in the oven and it got burned.
Esempi per chi studia
- I put the cake in the oven.
- Please turn off the oven when you are done.
- The bread smells good in the oven.
- My oven is small, so I can only bake one tray at a time.
Sostantivo
technical
B2
entity
2
Industrial chamber for heating materials
A big closed machine in a factory or lab that gets very hot and is used to heat or dry materials.
Schema d'uso:
an oven for [heating/drying materials]
Errore comune:
Learners may think 'oven' is only for cooking food. In technical and industrial contexts, it can also mean large machines that heat or dry materials. Words like 'kiln' or 'furnace' are related but used for more specific processes, so they are not always interchangeable with 'oven'.
Sinonimi
kiln (Often used for firing ceramics or bricks; similar idea of a high‑temperature enclosed chamber but associated more with pottery and building materials.)
Contrari
cooling chamber (A device or space used to cool materials down, which is the opposite function of an industrial oven that heats materials up.)
Collocazioni
industrial oven
|drying oven
|curing oven
|laboratory oven
Temi
industry
|technology
|science
|work
Esempi
- The paint must cure in the industrial oven for thirty minutes before the parts can be handled.
- Samples were dried overnight in a laboratory oven at 80°C.
- The company invested in a new curing oven to speed up the production of composite parts.
Esempi per chi studia
- The metal parts go into a big oven in the factory.
- In the lab, we dry the samples in an oven.
- This special oven heats the glass to a very high temperature.
Sostantivo
informal
B1
state
3
Place that feels extremely hot
A room or place that feels very, very hot, like the inside of an oven.
Schema d'uso:
[a place] is (like) an oven
Errore comune:
Learners sometimes use this figurative meaning in very formal writing, where it can sound too casual. It is also important not to confuse this with the literal kitchen appliance; you usually say a room, car, or place 'is like an oven' or 'is an oven' to show it feels very hot.
Sinonimi
sauna (Often used figuratively in a similar way to describe a very hot room, though literally it is a special room designed for hot steam or dry heat.)
Contrari
freezer (Used figuratively to describe a place that feels extremely cold, the opposite of a place that feels like an oven.)
Collocazioni
like an oven
|feels like an oven
|this room is an oven
Temi
daily life
|weather
|daily_life
|core_vocabulary
Esempi
- It was like an oven in the car after sitting in the sun all afternoon.
- Close the curtains; this apartment is an oven in the summer.
- The classroom was an oven, and everyone was sweating through the exam.
Esempi per chi studia
- The room is an oven today.
- This car feels like an oven in the sun.
- My small office gets hot; in August it is like an oven.
Grammatica
Forma base
oven
IPA
GB/ˈʌvən/
US/ˈʌvən/
Sillabe e accento
oven (1 sillaba)
Stress on 1st syllable (oven)
Forme flesse
Noun
- Base: oven
- Plural: ovens
Famiglia di parole
Espressioni
a bun in the oven
1/ə bˈʌn ˈɪn ðə ˈʌvən/
idiom
informal
Pregnant; expecting a baby
Used to say that a woman is pregnant (she is going to have a baby), usually in a light or humorous way.
Esempi
- I heard Sarah has a bun in the oven—they're expecting the baby in October.
- Once they had a bun in the oven, they decided to move to a bigger apartment.
- She joked that with a bun in the oven, she needed to start saving for diapers.
preheat the oven
1/pɹihət ðə ˈʌvən/
fixed phrase
Heat the oven before cooking
Turn the oven on before you cook so it reaches the right temperature first.
Esempi
- Preheat the oven to 180°C before you start mixing the cake batter.
- The recipe says to preheat the oven for ten minutes before putting the bread in.