Synonyms for microwave
ˈmaɪ kroʊˌweɪvmi·crowave

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1. microwaveverb

   Synonyms:
   nuke

2. microwaveverb

   To cook (something) in a microwave oven.

   Synonyms:
   nuke

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1. microwavenoun

   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

   Synonyms:
   microwave oven

2. microwave, microwave ovenverb

   kitchen appliance that cooks food by passing an electromagnetic wave through it; heat results from the absorption of energy by the water molecules in the food

   Synonyms:
   microwave oven

3. microwave, micro-cook, zap, nukeverb

   cook or heat in a microwave oven

   "You can microwave the leftovers"

   Synonyms:
   micro-cook, vaporize, atomize, zap, atom-bomb, nuke, atomise

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1. • Electromagnetic Radiation

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1. List of paraphrases for "microwave":

   radiometer

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1. Paul Steck:

   I want my onions grilled when I order them, and I want my pita warm from the oven, not the microwave. To me, that’s fresh. while most of the industry has gone to bagged lettuce product—there’s a whole wall of that stuff in the grocery store now—we take full heads of lettuce and chop them each day.

2. Johnny Wowk:

   Microwave Oven - When you zap, your food turns to crap. -Johnny The Walker

3. Erin Bromage:

   Things like temperature and sunlight have an effect, but you don't want to be throwing it in an oven or microwave, i used to stick mine on the dashboard of my car in summer, and that would do more than enough in regards to the heat and the direct light that it was getting. But in reality, there's nothing you can really do to extend its life through cleaning that is accessible to an average person.

4. The CIA Polymeropolous:

   There'sconventional wisdom that this is a portable weapon, a microwave weapon that we knew the Soviet Union and the Russians certainly developed and tested for a long time. And it's designed to incapacitate.I mean, it's pretty insidious because it also doesn't leave any kind of open scars or wounds, it's a terror weapon that I think the Russians, in my view, have employed. And they've done so to very good effect because it's caused a great deal of worry and fear among the US diplomatic community. CLICK HERE TO GET THE FOX NEWS APP The majority of senior US government officials, including the intelligence community, believe it's the Russians.

5. Carey Balaban:

   The energy may be acoustic, pressure waves, you've probably heard of LRAD devices (or long-range acoustic devices) -- devices they've discussed in the press -- so ultrasound is one mode that could be used for this. We also could have radiofrequency. We could have microwave. We could have light -- lasers are an example of it. I'm going through these just as examples, i want to make it eminently clear that we don't know what they were exposed to and certainly can't make any inferences as to whether it was deliberate or inadvertent.