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ovens

Pronunciation: [ˈʌvənz]

Word

Context: “kitchen appliance”

(noun) an oven is a big box that gets very hot inside. People use ovens to cook food or bake things like cookies, cakes, or bread.

Example

I baked a delicious cake in the oven yesterday.

Example

I forgot to preheat the oven, so my pizza didn't cook right.

Example

What temperature do you set the oven to for baking cookies?

Context: “furnace”

(noun) an oven can also mean a large, heated space used in factories to melt or heat materials, like metal or glass.

Example

The factory installed a new oven for melting glass.

Example

The old oven wasn't strong enough to heat the metal properly.

Example

How long does it take to heat up the oven for melting steel?

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