gas oven
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- noun
- /ɡæs ˈoʊvən/
:
horno de gas
- But the apartment I'm living in uses a gas oven, and it may just be in my head, I swear, anything I cook uncovered has a funny taste to it.
Examples
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Lillian popped a loaf of bread into the gas oven.
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Aluminum siding glowed in the evening's dusk, and one house had a horizontal freezer on the front porch; another had an old-fashioned gas oven.
Fiction book (2000) -
"Do you have a gas oven, a fireplace?
Fiction book (2000) -
I've had gas ovens for a long time and have never noticed a funny taste on food from mine.
Blog text (5) -
One of my first Thanksgivings I hosted in my tiny NYC apartment, which had one of those similarly tiny gas ovens.
Blog text (17) -
I was helping a friend bake a cake in her gas oven.
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My gas oven heats up quickly, making it perfect for roasting meals.
Synonyms
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A heated space in a kitchen appliance for baking or roasting food
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A kitchen appliance with hot burners used to cook food
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A large kitchen stove with burners and an oven for cooking
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A cooker with burners and an oven that uses gas to cook food
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A cooking stove with gas burners and an oven
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A kitchen stove that uses gas to cook food
Antonyms
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Morphology
The phrase transparently combines 'gas' (fuel) and 'oven' (an enclosed heated chamber), so a B1 learner would readily infer 'an oven that uses gas.' However, the specific sense 'a cremation chamber for incinerating bodies' is a specialized, context-dependent extension (historical/forensic usage) that is not predictable from the constituents alone, so full comprehension requires extra world knowledge.
Etymology
Gas oven: The name gas oven comes from the two words gas and oven. Imagine a metal oven with a blue flame under the food; this quick, controllable heat is why people call a cooking stove a 'gas oven' today.