单词 | gas oven |
释义 | gas ovenn. 1. a. An oven in which the combustion of gas is used as a source of heat; esp. one used for cooking. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > food > food manufacture and preparation > equipment for food preparation > stove or cooker > [noun] > oven > other types of oven broiling-iron1562 broil-iron1567 apple roaster1637 bread oven1745 pot-oven1750 Dutch oven1769 caboose1779 roaster1796 gas oven1810 kitchen1826 tandoor1840 water oven1848 ti-oven1896 roaster oven1940 1810 Belfast Monthly Mag. Dec. 457/2 The patentee after this recounts, what he considers the imperfections of the common methods of applying the heat to the gas-ovens. 1858 E. T. Freedley Philadelphia & its Manuf. 291 The Summer Range, or Gas Oven, which originated here, and is said to be unknown elsewhere. 1864 Mining & Smelting Mag. 5 92 Holes or perforations..allow the surplus heats to pass from the coke oven below into flues built around the gas oven or retort above. 1903 W. B. Yeats Let. 3 Jan. (1994) III. 295 For some time I have talked vaguely of getting a gass oven in my inner room. 1942 Life 4 May 18/2 (advt.) Roast meat at low temperature in your Gas oven to reduce shrinkage. 1986 B. Fussell I hear Amer. Cooking Introd. p. xxiv The batter I baked in a pan in a gas oven was really a dandified pone. 2003 Which? July 30/2 You can buy fan-assisted gas ovens, which distribute the heat more evenly. b. With reference to the taking of one's own life by asphyxiation or gas poisoning using a domestic gas oven.This form of suicide became much rarer when coal gas, which contained highly toxic carbon monoxide, was replaced by natural gas in household supplies in the 1940s–70s. ΘΚΠ the world > life > death > killing > suicide > [noun] > means of gas oven1919 1919 Solicitors' Jrnl. 23 Aug. 767/2 At a recent inquest on a man, who had committed suicide by placing his head in a gas oven with the taps turned on, the City Coroner..said such deaths were becoming increasingly common in England. 1939 G. Greene Confidential Agent i. ii. 77 You've got to choose some line of action and live by it. Otherwise nothing matters at all. You probably end with a gas oven. a1967 J. R. Ackerley My Father & Myself (1968) xv. 163 The kind of shock that people must receive when some old friend..goes home and puts his head in the gasoven. 1994 J. Kelman How Late it Was 29 If Helen chucked him now he really was fuckt, right out the game, he would be as well parking the head in a gas oven. 2. A gas chamber and associated crematory used by the Nazis during the Second World War (1939–45) for murdering large numbers of people. Now historical. ΘΚΠ society > authority > punishment > capital punishment > [noun] > place of > gas chamber lethal chamber1884 gas chamber1945 gas oven1945 gas van1946 1945 ‘G. Orwell’ in Polemic i. 40 Is it true about the German gas ovens in Poland? 1957 Life 12 Aug. 112/1 The death of six million Jews in German gas ovens. 1984 S. A. Gordon Hitler, Germans, & ‘Jewish Question’ ii. 65 One cannot assume that anti-Semitism among middle classes..was synonymous with their desire to build gas ovens to annihilate Jews. 1995 A. Shanks Civil Society, Civil Relig. 14 The gas ovens of the Nazi ‘final solution’ were not weapons, they were instruments of genocide. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2012; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1810 |
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