печь — meaning in English
Pech
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English meaning
- bake verb To cook food using dry heat in an oven.
- cook noun A person who prepares food, especially as a job.
- fire noun The chemical reaction of burning, producing heat, light, and flame.
- furnace noun A heating device used to melt metal, fire ceramics, or heat a building.
- heater noun A device that produces warmth, used to heat a room, building, or object.
- oven noun An enclosed chamber used for baking, roasting, or heating food.
- stove noun An appliance used for cooking food, usually with hotplates or burners.
Senses
печь is used for these senses in English:
- Fornax (constellation) A winter constellation of the southern sky, said to resemble a furnace. It lies near the constellation Eridanus.
- Russian oven A kind of oven/furnace that first appeared in the 15th century, used for both cooking and domestic heating in traditional Russian, Ukrainian and Belarusian households, and designed to retain heat for long periods of time by channeling the smoke and hot air of combustion through a labyrinth of passages.
- bake (transitive, or, intransitive, or, ditransitive, with person as subject) To cook (something) in an oven (for someone).
- bake (intransitive, with baked thing as subject) To be cooked in an oven.
- cook (intransitive, figuratively) To be uncomfortably hot.
- fire (countable, British) A heater or stove used in place of a real fire (such as an electric fire).
- furnace (US, Canada) A device that provides heat for a building.
- furnace (colloquial, figurative) Any area that is excessively hot.
bake — full definition
- verb To cook food using dry heat in an oven.
- verb To harden or dry something using heat.
- noun A social event where food is baked or served, or a baked dish itself.
cook — full definition
- noun A person who prepares food, especially as a job.
- verb To prepare food by applying heat.
- verb (slang) To manufacture illegal drugs, especially methamphetamine.
- verb (informal) To tamper with or falsify records or figures.
- verb (informal) To be doing very well or proceeding successfully.