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# oven

«oven» in Mova's school dictionary: **a box in the kitchen that gets very hot for baking and…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 5 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

### 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 →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/O/oven/#m1)

2) Anything very hot can be called an oven: «It's like an oven in here!» [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/O/oven/#m2)

### 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 →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/O/oven/#x1)
- The cake bakes in the oven for 40 minutes. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/O/oven/#x2)
- Heat the oven to 180 degrees. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/O/oven/#x3)
- The bakery has 3 ovens. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/O/oven/#x4)
- Always use oven gloves to take out a hot tray. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/O/oven/#x5)
- Grandma bakes bread in a big brick oven. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/O/oven/#x6)
- The car was like an oven in the sun. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/O/oven/#x7)
- Ask an adult before you use the oven. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/O/oven/#x8)
- "Fetch out what there is in the oven; I'm hungry." [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/O/oven/#x9)

### 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".](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/chemistry/16-alkalis-and-soda/7/)
- [Soap is slightly alkaline and feels slippery; strong alkalis like oven cleaner can burn skin badly.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/chemistry/16-alkalis-and-soda/12/)
- [Flatbreads like pitta and tortilla are made without yeast; pitta gets its pocket because water inside turns to steam in a hot oven.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/chemistry/21-bread-rising-yeast-at-work/13/)
- [Bread goes stale as its starch slowly lines up and squeezes out water; warming it in the oven softens it for a while.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/chemistry/21-bread-rising-yeast-at-work/16/)
- [Cakes rise without yeast, using baking powder or whisked eggs to trap gas that expands in the oven heat.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/chemistry/21-bread-rising-yeast-at-work/18/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «oven» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/O/oven/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.