MICROWAVE | Meaning, Definition In Cambridge English Dictionary

Meaning of microwave in English microwavenoun [ C ] uk /ˈmaɪ.krə.weɪv/ us /ˈmaɪ.kroʊ.weɪv/ Add to word list Add to word list (also microwave oven) an electric oven that uses waves of energy to cook or heat food quickly: in the microwave I like to cook vegetables in the microwave.put something in the microwave Put the fish in the microwave and it'll only take five minutes.   goir/iStock/Getty Images Plus/GettyImages a very short electromagnetic wave used for cooking food or for sending information by radio or radar Kitchen appliances

• Aga
• air fryer
• blender
• bread machine
• breadmaker
• food processor
• French press
• frier
• gas mark
• griddle
• liquidizer
• meat grinder
• mincer
• multicooker
• oven
• stove
• stove hood
• stovetop
• tandoor
• teakettle

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microwaveable microwavable microwaveverb [ T ] uk /ˈmaɪ.krə.weɪv/ us /ˈmaɪ.kroʊ.weɪv/ to cook something in a microwave: Shall I microwave something for dinner? I microwaved the sauce for 30 seconds so it was hot when poured over the fish.

• Most green vegetables have no snap to them when they’ve been steamed or microwaved.
• I microwaved a bowl of soup and had it for lunch.
• Instead of oven-roasting the garlic, we microwaved a dozen cloves with oil and sugar.

Preparing food using heat

• air fryer
• air-fry
• bain-marie
• bake something in phrasal verb
• baking
• cooked to a turn idiom
• cooking
• Crock-Pot
• deep fat fryer
• deep-fried
• overcook
• overdone
• pan-fry
• parboil
• poach
• undercook
• underdone
• warm (someone/something) up phrasal verb
• warmed-over
• wilt

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microwave | American Dictionary

microwavenoun [ C ] us /ˈmɑɪ·krəˌweɪv/ Add to word list Add to word list physics a very short, very fast wave of electromagnetic energy that causes heat in atoms of water and some other substances  microwave oven A microwave or microwave oven is a machine that cooks food quickly using microwaves: Heat up the leftover pizza in the microwave.

microwave

verb [ I/T ] us /ˈmɑɪ·krəˌweɪv/ [ I ] Microwave on high for 12 minutes. (Definition of microwave from the Cambridge Academic Content Dictionary © Cambridge University Press)

Examples of microwave

microwave Confining electrons in the nodes of standing microwaves. From the Cambridge English Corpus Advances in satellites, microwaves, and cellular radio are reducing the cost of reaching the remoter rural areas. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 We cannot have nuclear-powered microwaves—except in the sense that nuclear power can be fed into the electricity industry and used in microwaves. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 The fact that the systems should be mutually functional is the goal, not that they should work using microwaves or any other waves. From Europarl Parallel Corpus - English The inclusion of a general safety requirement, such as that in the amendments, would require manufacturers to label such products as unsuitable for microwaving. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Microwaving is simply one method of heating food. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 We accept modern technology in terms of cook-chill, refrigeration, microwaves and so on. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 The models to be tested were decided by the researchers on the basis of sales figures for both branded and own-brand microwaves. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 No warning was provided that the product was unsuitable for microwaving. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 To date, much research has been conducted on the thermal effects of microwaves as part of the electromagnetic spectrum. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 The ingredients may well have been organic, chemically sprayed, frozen, microwaved, pasteurised or even, in due course (depending on what happens later today), irradiated. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 I was speaking about the biological effects of microwaves, especially radio frequency waves at the very low frequencies used in mobile phones and transmissions from mobile telecommunications masts. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 There are no implications for food safety, in respect of microwaves, of this closure, as there are facilities elsewhere with the capability to carry out research in this area. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Invalid signals include microwaves made by sources separate from the transmitter, such as radar jamming and deception. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. His research interests include semiconductor designs, analog and digital signal processing circuits, microwave amplification systems, and clock synchronization schemes for high-speed digital systems. From the Cambridge English Corpus See all examples of microwave These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors. What is the pronunciation of microwave?

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