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English

Etymology

Middle English, from Middle Dutch from Middle Low German from Old High German stuba

Pronunciation



Noun

  1. A heater, a closed apparatus to burn fuel for the warming of a room.
  2. A device for heating food, (UK) a cooker.


Translations

Verb

stove


Category:Dutch derivations

ar:stove et:stove fr:stove io:stove id:stove it:stove hu:stove ru:stove fi:stove ta:stove te:stove vi:stove zh:stove

GNU Project's publication of CIDE, the Collaborative International Dictionary of English Hydrocarbon \Hy`dro*car"bon\, n. [Hydro-, 2 + carbon.] (Chem.)
A compound containing only hydrogen and carbon, as methane,
benzene, etc.; also, by extension, any of their derivatives.
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Hydrocarbon burner, furnace, stove, a burner, furnace,
or stove with which liquid fuel, as petroleum, is used.
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GNU Project's publication of CIDE, the Collaborative International Dictionary of English Stave \Stave\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Staved (st[=a]vd) or
Stove (st[=o]v); p. pr. & vb. n. Staving.] [From Stave,
n., or Staff, n.]
1. To break in a stave or the staves of; to break a hole in;
to burst; -- often with in; as, to stave a cask; to stave
in a boat.
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2. To push, as with a staff; -- with off.
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The condition of a servant staves him off to a
distance. --South.
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3. To delay by force or craft; to drive away; -- usually with
off; as, to stave off the execution of a project.
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And answered with such craft as women use,
Guilty or guiltless, to stave off a chance
That breaks upon them perilously. --Tennyson.
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4. To suffer, or cause, to be lost by breaking the cask.
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All the wine in the city has been staved. --Sandys.
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5. To furnish with staves or rundles. --Knolles.
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6. To render impervious or solid by driving with a calking
iron; as, to stave lead, or the joints of pipes into which
lead has been run.
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To stave and tail, in bear baiting, (to stave) to interpose
with the staff, doubtless to stop the bear; (to tail) to
hold back the dog by the tail. --Nares.
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GNU Project's publication of CIDE, the Collaborative International Dictionary of English Stove \Stove\, n. [D. stoof a foot stove, originally, a heated
room, a room for a bath; akin to G. stube room, OHG. stuba a
heated room, AS. stofe, Icel. stofa a room, bathing room, Sw.
stufva, stuga, a room, Dan. stue; of unknown origin. Cf.
Estufa, Stew, Stufa.]
1. A house or room artificially warmed or heated; a forcing
house, or hothouse; a drying room; -- formerly,
designating an artificially warmed dwelling or room, a
parlor, or a bathroom, but now restricted, in this sense,
to heated houses or rooms used for horticultural purposes
or in the processes of the arts.
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When most of the waiters were commanded away to
their supper, the parlor or stove being nearly
emptied, in came a company of musketeers. --Earl of
Strafford.
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How tedious is it to them that live in stoves and
caves half a year together, as in Iceland, Muscovy,
or under the pole! --Burton.
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2. An apparatus, consisting essentially of a receptacle for
fuel, made of iron, brick, stone, or tiles, and variously
constructed, in which fire is made or kept for warming a
room or a house, or for culinary or other purposes.
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3. Hence, in modern dwellings: An appliance having a top
surface with fittings suitable for heating pots and pans
for cooking, frying, or boiling food, most commonly heated
by gas or electricity, and often combined with an oven in
a single unit; a cooking stove. Such units commonly have
two to six heating surfaces, called burners, even if they
are heated by electricity rather than a gas flame.
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Cooking stove, a stove with an oven, opening for pots,
kettles, and the like, -- used for cooking.

Dry stove. See under Dry.

Foot stove. See under Foot.

Franklin stove. See in the Vocabulary.

Stove plant (Bot.), a plant which requires artificial heat
to make it grow in cold or cold temperate climates.

Stove plate, thin iron castings for the parts of stoves.
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GNU Project's publication of CIDE, the Collaborative International Dictionary of English Stove \Stove\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Stoved; p. pr. & vb. n.
Stoving.]
1. To keep warm, in a house or room, by artificial heat; as,
to stove orange trees. --Bacon.
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2. To heat or dry, as in a stove; as, to stove feathers.
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GNU Project's publication of CIDE, the Collaborative International Dictionary of English Stove \Stove\ (st[=o]v),
imp. of Stave.
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WordNet stave
n 1: (music) the system of five horizontal lines on which the
musical notes are written [syn: staff]
2: one of several thin slats of wood forming the sides of a
barrel or bucket [syn: lag]
3: a crosspiece between the legs of a chair [syn: rung, round]
v 1: furnich with staves; "stave a ladder"
2: burst or force (a hole) into something [syn: stave in]
[also: stove]
WordNet stove
n 1: a kitchen appliance used for cooking food; "dinner was
already on the stove" [syn: kitchen stove, range, {kitchen
range}, cooking stove]
2: any heating apparatus
WordNet stove
See stave
Moby Dictionary
Seger cone , acid kiln , blast furnace , boiler , bottle-gas stove ,
brickkiln , burner , butane stove , calefactor , caliduct , cement kiln ,
coal furnace , coal stove , cook stove , cooker , cookery , element ,
enamel kiln , furnace , gas jet , gas stove , heater , heating duct ,
jet , kiln , kitchener , limekiln , muffle kiln , oven , pilot light ,
pyrometer , pyrometric cone , range , reverberatory ,
reverberatory kiln , salamander , salamander stove , smelter ,
steam pipe , tewel , tuyere , warmer


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