Oven vs. Microwave — What's the Difference?
Difference Between Oven and Microwave
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Oven
An oven is a tool which is used to expose materials to a hot environment. Ovens contain a hollow chamber and provide a means of heating the chamber in a controlled way.
Microwave
Microwave is a form of electromagnetic radiation with wavelengths ranging from about one meter to one millimeter corresponding to frequencies between 300 MHz and 300 GHz respectively. Different sources define different frequency ranges as microwaves; the above broad definition includes both UHF and EHF (millimeter wave) bands.
Oven
A chamber or enclosed compartment for heating, baking, or roasting food, as in a stove, or for firing, baking, hardening, or drying objects, as in a kiln.
Microwave
An electromagnetic wave with a wavelength in the range 0.001–0.3 m, shorter than that of a normal radio wave but longer than those of infrared radiation. Microwaves are used in radar, in communications, and for heating in microwave ovens and in various industrial processes
Microwave radiation
Oven
A chamber used for baking or heating.
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Microwave
Cook (food) in a microwave oven
He microwaved some steak out of the freezer
Oven
(colloquial) A very hot place.
Microwave
Relating to or being electromagnetic radiation between radio waves and infrared waves in the electromagnetic spectrum, having frequencies between 300 megahertz and 300 gigahertz and wavelengths between 1 meter and 1 millimeter.
Oven
To cook in an oven
Microwave
A wave of microwave radiation.
Oven
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.
Microwave
A microwave oven.
Oven
Kitchen appliance used for baking or roasting
Microwave
To cook or heat (food) in a microwave oven.
Microwave
An electromagnetic wave with wavelength between that of infrared light and radio waves.
Radio band
Microwave
Ellipsis of microwave oven
Just put it in the microwave for 30 seconds and it's ready to eat.
Microwave
(transitive) To cook (something) in a microwave oven.
Microwave
To provide minimal preparation for implementation, deeming full or extensive preparation as unnecessary.
Microwave
A short electromagnetic wave (longer than infrared but shorter than radio waves); used for radar and microwave ovens and for transmitting telephone, facsimile, video and data
Microwave
Kitchen appliance that cooks food by passing an electromagnetic wave through it; heat is produced by the absorption of microwave energy by the water molecules in the food
Microwave
Cook or heat in a microwave oven;
You can microwave the left-overs
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