Noun
microwave (plural microwaves)
- An electromagnetic wave with wavelength between that of infrared light and radio waves.
- Synonym: SHF
- Hypernyms: radio wave, wave
- Hyponyms: K band, Ka band, Ku band, X band
- Holonym: radio band
- Coordinate terms: longwave, mediumwave, shortwave, UHF
1964 August, “The NER's microwave radio-telephone begins work”, in Modern Railways, page 129:Microwaves do not follow the curvature of the earth, but travel in a straight line. They must therefore have unobstructed "line of sight" and the dish aerials have to be sited on towers or high buildings, on high ground, or a combination of all three.
- Ellipsis of microwave oven.
Just put it in the microwave for 30 seconds and it's ready to eat.
Translations
electromagnetic wave
- Afrikaans: mikrogolf
- Albanian: mikrovalë f
- Arabic: مَوْجَة الْمَيْكْرُووِيف f (mawjat al-maykruwīv), مَوْجَة دَقِيقَة f (mawja daqīqa), مَوْجَة مَيْكْرُوِيَّة f (mawja maykruwiyya), مَوْجَة صِغْرِيَّة f (mawja ṣiḡriyya)
- Armenian: միկրոալիք (mikroalikʻ)
- Azerbaijani: mikrodalga
- Basque: mikrouhin
- Belarusian: мікрахва́ля f (mikraxválja)
- Bengali: অণুতরঙ্গ (bn) (onutoroṅgo), মাইক্রোওয়েভ (maikrōōẇebh)
- Bulgarian: микровълна́ (bg) f (mikrovǎlná)
- Burmese: မိုက်ခရိုဝေ့ (muikhka.ruiwe.)
- Catalan: microona f
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 微波 (zh) (wēibō)
- Cornish: korrdon f
- Czech: mikrovlna (cs) f
- Danish: mikrobølge c
- Dutch: microgolf (nl) m
- Esperanto: mikroondo
- Estonian: mikrolaine
- Finnish: mikroaalto (fi)
- French: micro-onde (fr) f
- Georgian: მიკროტალღა (miḳroṭalɣa)
- German: Mikrowelle (de) f
- Greek: μικροκύμα n (mikrokýma)
- Hebrew: מִיקְרוֹגַל (he) m (mikrogál)
- Hindi: माइक्रोवेव (māikrovev), सूक्ष्मतरंग (sūkṣmatraṅg)
- Hungarian: mikrohullám (hu)
- Icelandic: örbylgja f
- Ido: mikro-ondi
- Indonesian: gelombang mikro (id)
- Irish: micreathonn f
- Italian: microonda (it) f
- Japanese: マイクロ波 (ja) (マイクロは, maikuroha), マイクロウェーブ (maikuroweebu)
- Kazakh: микротолқын (mikrotolqyn)
- Khmer: រលកខ្លីហួសកំរិត (rɔlɔɔk khləy huəh kɑmrɨt)
- Korean: 마이크로파 (maikeuropa)
- Kyrgyz: микротолкун (mikrotolkun)
- Lao: ຈຸນລະຄື້ນ (chun la khư̄n)
- Latvian: mikrovilnis m
- Lithuanian: mikrobanga f
- Macedonian: ми́кробран m (míkrobran)
- Malay: gelombang mikro, mikrogelombang
- Manx: meegra-honn f
- Mongolian:
- Cyrillic: бичил долгион (bičil dolgion)
- Norman: micro-onde f, micro-louême f
- Norwegian:
- Bokmål: mikrobølge m or f
- Nynorsk: mikrobylgje f, mikrobølgje f
- Occitan: microonda (oc) f
- Persian: مایکروویو (mâykrovêv), کهموج (fa), ریزموج (fa) (rizmowj)
- Polish: mikrofala f
- Portuguese: micro-onda f
- Romanian: microundă (ro) f
- Russian: микроволна́ (ru) f (mikrovolná)
- Scottish Gaelic: meanbh-thonn
- Serbo-Croatian:
- Cyrillic: микроталас m, микровал m
- Roman: mikrotalas m, mikroval m
- Slovak: mikrovlna f
- Slovene: mikroval m
- Spanish: microonda (es) f
- Sundanese: ᮌᮨᮜᮧᮙ᮪ᮘᮀ ᮙᮤᮊᮢᮧ (gelombang mikro)
- Swedish: mikrovåg (sv) c
- Tagalog: mikliboy
- Tajik: майкровейв (tg) (maykroveyv), микромавҷ (mikromavj)
- Tatar: микродулкын (mikrodulkın)
- Telugu: సూక్ష్మతరంగము (sūkṣmataraṅgamu)
- Thai: ไมโครเวฟ (th) (mai-kroo-wéep)
- Turkish: mikrodalga (tr)
- Turkmen: mikrotolkun
- Ukrainian: мікрохви́ля f (mikroxvýlja)
- Uyghur: مىكرو دولقۇن (mikro dolqun)
- Uzbek: mikrodalga (uz)
- Vietnamese: vi ba (vi) (微波), vi sóng (微㳥)
- Welsh: microdon (cy) f
- Yiddish: מיקראָכוואַליע f (mikrokhvalye)
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Verb
microwave (third-person singular simple present microwaves, present participle microwaving, simple past and past participle microwaved)
- (transitive) To cook (something) in a microwave oven.
- Synonyms: (colloquial) nuke, microcook, zap
2011 December 14, Steven Morris, “Devon woman jailed for 168 days for killing kitten in microwave”, in Guardian:A vengeful mother-of-three has been jailed for 168 days after being convicted of killing a neighbour's kitten by microwaving the 10-week-old pet.
- (transitive, slang) To provide minimal preparation for implementation, deeming full or extensive preparation as unnecessary.
