What does stove mean?
Definitions for stove
stoʊvstove
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Princeton's WordNet
stove, kitchen stove, range, kitchen range, cooking stovenoun
a kitchen appliance used for cooking food
"dinner was already on the stove"
stovenoun
any heating apparatus
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Stovenoun
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.
Webster Dictionary
Stove
of Stave
Stove
imp. of Stave
Stovenoun
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
Stovenoun
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
Stoveverb
to keep warm, in a house or room, by artificial heat; as, to stove orange trees
Stoveverb
to heat or dry, as in a stove; as, to stove feathers
Etymology: [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.]
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Stove
A stove is an enclosed heated space. The term is commonly taken to mean an enclosed space in which fuel is burned to provide heating, either to heat the space in which the stove is situated, or to heat the stove itself and items placed on it. This article is principally concerned with enclosed stoves burning solid fuels for room heating.
Chambers 20th Century Dictionary
Stove
stōv, n. an apparatus with a fire for warming a room, cooking, &c.: a pottery-kiln: an oven for heating the blast of a blast-furnace: a drying-room.—v.t. to heat or keep warm.—ns. Stove′-pipe, a metal pipe for carrying smoke from a stove to a chimney-flue; Stove′pipe-hat, a high silk hat; Stove′-plant, a plant cultivated in a stove; Stove′-plate, a lid or plate covering one of the holes in a cooking-stove. [A.S. stofa; Ger. stube.]
Stove
stōv, pa.t. and pa.p. of stave.
Dictionary of Nautical Terms
stove
Broken in; thus, when violent damage is done to the upper part of a ship's hull, she is said to be stove; when on any portion of her bottom, she is bilged.--A stove, is a kind of kiln for warping timber in.--Hanging stoves are also used on board ship for airing the 'tween decks.
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The numerical value of stove in Chaldean Numerology is: 7
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The numerical value of stove in Pythagorean Numerology is: 9
Examples of stove in a Sentence
When we burned wood for fuel, the smoke from the stove would spread throughout our home and we would cough and feel pain in our eyes, now cooking food and doing other chores in the kitchen has become considerably easier and stress-free. We use an electric stove as electricity is much cheaper and readily available.
We have tested the stove for emissions and have seen that it has very low emissions, making it ideal to use in the home.
The stove is down.
His customers see something new and that it is working well. The tea-seller markets it and gets a commission for each stove.
Put your hand on a hot stove for a minute, and it seems like an hour. Sit with a pretty girl for an hour, and it seems like a minute. THAT'S relativity.
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- verwarmer, stoofAfrikaans
- موقدArabic
- soba, peçAzerbaijani
- пе́чка, печBelarusian
- пе́чкаBulgarian
- cuina, estufaCatalan, Valencian
- kamna, pecCzech
- Herd, Ofen, KochherdGerman
- θερμάστρα, σόμπα, κουζίναGreek
- hornillo, calentador, cocina, estufaSpanish
- estufa, estufarenBasque
- اجاق, بخاریPersian
- hella, liesi, uuniFinnish
- poêle, four, fourneauFrench
- stòbhScottish Gaelic
- cociñaGalician
- תנורHebrew
- स्टोवHindi
- tűzhely, kályhaHungarian
- kompor, tungkuIndonesian
- furneloIdo
- stufa, fornelloItalian
- ストーブ, 暖炉Japanese
- ღუმელიGeorgian
- 스토브, 난로Korean
- plīts, krāsnsLatvian
- шпо́рет, пе́чкаMacedonian
- stufiMaltese
- ovnNorwegian
- fornuis, oven, kachelDutch
- piecyk, kuchenkaPolish
- aquecedor, fogãoPortuguese
- sobă, reșou, aragazRomanian
- пли́тка, плита́, буржу́йка, плита, пе́чка, печьRussian
- peć, штедњак, štednjak, шпорет, šporet, пећSerbo-Croatian
- sporák, pecSlovak
- pečSlovene
- sobëAlbanian
- spis, kaminSwedish
- jikoSwahili
- சுபாலிகைTamil
- పొయ్యిTelugu
- tuluan, katan, kalanTagalog
- soba, ocakTurkish
- пі́чка, піч, плита́, пли́ткаUkrainian
- چولہاUrdu
- pech, pechkaUzbek
- cái lò, bếp, bếp lòVietnamese
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