| 单词 | air-oven |
| 释义 | > as lemmasair-oven 3. A small furnace, kiln, or other enclosed and heated compartment used for heating non-food items, as for the baking of pottery or other ceramics, for the heating or drying of substances in metallurgical, scientific, or manufacturing processes, for disinfection, etc. Often with distinguishing word, as air-oven, annealing oven, drying-oven, heating-oven.ash, assay, beehive, biscuit, china, coke, melting, porcelain, tile-oven, etc.: see the first element. ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > equipment > furnace or kiln > [noun] > small oven1753 a1225 (c1200) Vices & Virtues (1888) 73 (MED) Ðu scalt bien ȝefonded on ða hali liue al swo is þe pott ðe is idon on ðe barnende ofne. a1398 J. Trevisa tr. Bartholomaeus Anglicus De Proprietatibus Rerum (BL Add.) f. 310v Þough cerusa y-tosted in an ouene torne in to sandaricha. 1535 Bible (Coverdale) 2 Sam. xii. 31 He broughte them forth..and burned them in tyle ouens. 1576 G. Pettie Petite Pallace 68 Like as the potters clay beeing once hardened in the Ouen, will not bee made soft again. 1632 W. Lithgow Totall Disc. Trav. ix. 380 Two sundry Ouens drawne, beeing full of young Chickens,..not hatched by their mothers, but in the Fernace. 1670 Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 5 1197 It comes to a thick granulated whitish substance, which is afterwards reduced to a calx in an Oven. 1753 Chambers's Cycl. Suppl. Oven, or Assaying Oven, in metallurgy, is the particular sort of furnace, used by the assayers in their operations on metals. 1822 J. K. Paulding Sketch Old Eng. vii. 45 An oven to fumigate clothes, which are taken from the prisoners. 1858 A. S. Piggot Chem. & Metall. Copper 102 For this purpose, I am in the habit of employing an air oven, attached to my stove. 1875 Guide Royal Porcelain Wks. 17 A china oven..is built of fire bricks. 1936 Jrnl. Rom. Stud. 26 259 Two small oval pottery-kilns of updraught type, traces of another and a drying-oven were excavated. 1988 Q. N. Myrvik & R. S. Weiser Fund. Med. Bacteriol. & Mycol. (ed. 2) v. 82 In many instances, surgical instruments could be sterilized with either the autoclave, the hot air oven, the gas sterilizer, or by gamma radiation. 1991 Stained Glass Spring 26 Even the annealing oven, which cools and flattens the glass is manually operated. < as lemmas |
| 随便看 |
英语词典包含1132095条英英释义在线翻译词条，基本涵盖了全部常用单词的英英翻译及用法，是英语学习的有利工具。