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oven — ovenlike, adj. /uv euhn/, n. a chamber or compartment, as in a stove, for baking, roasting, heating, drying, etc. [bef. 900; ME; OE ofen; c. G Ofen, ON ofn] * * * … Universalium
Siege of Calcutta — Infobox Military Conflict conflict=Siege of Calcutta partof= date=June of 1796 place=Calcutta, Bengal result=Capture of Calcutta combatant1= Nawab of Bengal combatant2= Honourable East India Company commander1= Siraj ud Daula commander2= John… … Wikipedia
crisper — /kris peuhr/, n. 1. a person or thing that crisps, corrugates, or curls. 2. a drawer or compartment in a refrigerator for keeping lettuce, celery, and other vegetables crisp. 3. an ovenlike appliance for restoring the crispness of crackers,… … Universalium
ovenbird — /uv euhn berrd /, n. 1. an American warbler, Seiurus aurocapillus, that builds an oven shaped nest of leaves, twigs, etc., on the forest floor. 2. any of several South American passerine birds of the genus Furnarius of the family Furnariidae,… … Universalium
hot — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) adj. heated (see heat); peppery, biting. See taste, excitability, pungency. II (Roget s IV) modif. 1. [Having a high temperature] Syn. torrid, burning, fiery, flaming, blazing, very warm, feverish,… … English dictionary for students
firing — A process of applying heat to make hard pottery in either an oven or an ovenlike enclosure called a kiln. Also the means of fixing colors to ceramic surfaces. Also see glaze, polymer clay, pyrometric cones, and temperature … Glossary of Art Terms
hot — adj 1. heated, warm, calescent; fiery, piping hot, red hot; burning, flaming, blazing, scorching, roasting, searing; toasting, baking, ovenlike; scalding, boiling, sizzling, simmering, steaming; torrid, sultry, parching, sweltry, sweltering,… … A Note on the Style of the synonym finder
torrid — adj 1. tropical, hot, sultry, humid, steamy, steaming, muggy; sweltry, sweltering, blistering, parching, arid; boiling, sizzling, blazing, scorching; stifling, ovenlike, baking, burning, roasting; fiery, calescent, piping hot, red hot. 2. ardent … A Note on the Style of the synonym finder
hot — [adj1] very high in temperature baking, blazing, blistering, boiling, broiling, burning, calescent, close, decalescent, febrile, fevered, feverish, feverous, fiery, flaming, heated, humid, igneous, incandescent, like an oven*, on fire, ovenlike,… … New thesaurus
ovenbird — [uv′ən bʉrd΄] n. 1. any of a large family (Furnariidae) of Neotropical passerine birds; esp., any of a genus (Furnarius) that builds a two chambered, dome shaped, ovenlike nest from clay and dried leaves ☆ 2. any of various other birds that build … English World dictionary
