Meaning

1 senses

  1. (colloquial, informal)To cook in an oven.

    I'm gonna oven the pie for about 30 minutes, mate.

Examples

309 sentences

  1. I don't have a microwave oven.

    У мене немає мікрохвильової пічки. — deniko

    ruУ меня нет микроволновки. — marafon

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  2. Please put this in the microwave oven.

    Будь ласка, постав це до мікрохвильової печі. — deniko

    ruПожалуйста, поставьте это в микроволновку. — Balamax

    deStellen Sie das bitte in die Mikrowelle. — Fingerhut

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  3. I've got a cake in the oven.

    У мене в духовці пиріг. — deniko

    ruУ меня пирог в духовке. — marafon

    deIch habe einen Kuchen im Ofen. — Pfirsichbaeumchen

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  4. Tom put the turkey in the oven.

    Том поклав індика до духовки. — deniko

    ruТом положил индейку в духовку. — marafon

    deTom schob den Truthahn in den Ofen. — wolfgangth

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  5. Did you know your oven doesn't work?

    Ти знав, що твоя духовка не працює? — deniko

    ruТы знал, что у тебя духовка не работает? — marafon

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Origin

From Middle English oven, from Old English ofn (“oven”), from Proto-West Germanic *ofn (“o

From Middle English oven, from Old English ofn (“oven”), from Proto-West Germanic *ofn (“oven”), from Proto-Germanic *uhnaz, *uhwnaz (“oven”). Cognate with West Frisian ûne (“oven”), Dutch oven (“oven”), Low German Aven (“oven”), German Ofen (“oven”), Danish and Norwegian Bokmål ovn (“oven”), Faroese ovnur (“oven”), Icelandic ofn (“oven”), Norwegian Nynorsk omn (“oven”), Swedish ugn (“oven”), Finnish uuni (“oven”), Gothic 𐌰𐌿𐌷𐌽𐍃 (auhns, “oven”)), probably from a Proto-Indo-European *aukʷ- (“cooking pot”), *Hukʷ-, *ukʷnos (compare Sanskrit उखा (ukhā, “boiler, cauldron”), Albanian anë (“vessel, cooker”), Latin aulla, olla (“pot, jar”), Ancient Greek ἰπνός (ipnós, “oven, furnace”)).

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Forms

ovens, ovening, ovened, ovened
Base formoven · to oven
3rd person singularovens
Present participleovening
Past simpleovened
Past participleovened

regular · Lesson

Present simpleLesson

I, you, we, theyoven
he, she, itovens

Past simpleLesson

all personsovened

Present perfectLesson

I, you, we, theyhave ovened
he, she, ithas ovened

Future simple (will)Lesson

all personswill oven

Lessons for this word

3 lessons

Collocations

7 patterns
  • of the oven
  • in the oven
  • microwave oven
  • a microwave oven
  • oven mitt
  • an an oven
  • the oven too

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
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