OVEN

oven
    n 1: kitchen appliance used for baking or roasting
    

Oven \Ov"en\ ([u^]v"'n), n. [AS. ofen; akin to D. oven, OHG.
   ofan, ovan, G. ofen, Icel. ofn, Dan. ovn, Sw. ugn, Goth.
   a['u]hns, Gr. 'ipno`s, Skr. ukh[=a] pot.]
   A place arched over with brick or stonework, and used for
   baking, heating, or drying; hence, any structure, whether
   fixed or portable, which may be heated for baking, drying,
   etc.; esp., now, a chamber in a stove, used for baking or
   roasting.
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Appliance \Ap*pli"ance\, n.
   1. The act of applying; application.
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   2. subservience; compliance. [Obs.] --Shak.
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   3. A thing applied or used as a means to an end; an apparatus
      or device; as, to use various appliances; a mechanical
      appliance; a machine with its appliances.
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   4. Specifically: An apparatus or device, usually powered
      electrically, used in homes to perform domestic functions.
      An appliance is often categorized as a major appliance or
      a minor appliance by its cost. Common major appliances are
      the {refrigerator}, {washing machine}, {clothes drier},
      {oven}, and {dishwasher}. Some minor appliances are a
      {toaster}, {vacuum cleaner} or {microwave oven}.
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Oven
Heb. tannur, (Hos. 7:4). In towns there appear to have been
public ovens. There was a street in Jerusalem (Jer. 37:21)
called "bakers' street" (the only case in which the name of a
street in Jerusalem is preserved). The words "tower of the
furnaces" (Neh. 3:11; 12:38) is more properly "tower of the
ovens" (Heb. tannurim). These resemble the ovens in use among
ourselves.

  There were other private ovens of different kinds. Some were
like large jars made of earthenware or copper, which were heated
inside with wood (1 Kings 17:12; Isa. 44:15; Jer. 7:18) or grass
(Matt. 6:30), and when the fire had burned out, small pieces of
dough were placed inside or spread in thin layers on the
outside, and were thus baked. (See {FURNACE}.)

  Pits were also formed for the same purposes, and lined with
cement. These were used after the same manner.

  Heated stones, or sand heated by a fire heaped over it, and
also flat irons pans, all served as ovens for the preparation of
bread. (See Gen. 18:6; 1 Kings 19:6.)
    

21 Moby Thesaurus words for "oven":
      Seger cone, Torrid Zone, acid kiln, brickkiln, cement kiln,
      enamel kiln, equator, furnace, hell, inferno, kiln, limekiln,
      muffle kiln, pyrometer, pyrometric cone, reverberatory,
      reverberatory kiln, steam bath, stove, subtropics, tropics