Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
- n. An apparatus in which electricity or a fuel is used to furnish heat, as for cooking or warmth.
- n. A device that produces heat for specialized, especially industrial, purposes.
- n. A kiln.
- n. Chiefly British A hothouse.
- v. A past tense and a past participle of stave.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
- n. A heater, a closed apparatus to burn fuel for the warming of a room.
- n. A device for heating food, (UK) a cooker.
- n. A hothouse (in which plants are kept).
- v. To heat or dry, as in a stove.
- v. To keep warm, in a house or room, by artificial heat.
- v. Simple past tense and past participle of stave.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
- imp. of stave.
- n.
- n. 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.
- n. 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.
- n. 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.
- transitive v. To keep warm, in a house or room, by artificial heat.
- transitive v. To heat or dry, as in a stove.
from The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- To heat in a stove or heated room; expose to moderate heat in a vessel.
- To heat in or as in a stove: as, to stove feathers; to stove printed fabrics (to fix the color); to stove ropes (to make them pliable); to stove timber.
- In vinegar-manuf., to expose (malt-wash, etc.) in casks to artificial heat in a close room, in order to induce acetous fermentation.
- In ceramics, to expose to a low heat. See pottery, porcelain, and kiln.
- To cook in a close vessel; stew.
- To shut up, as in a stove; inclose; confine.
- Preterit and past participle of stave.
- In wool-bleaching, to expose (woolen yarn or cloth) in a dampened condition to the fumes of burning sulphur, and hence to the action of sulphurous acid, in a closed, usually wooden, building. The same treatment is sometimes applied to silk.
- n. A room, chamber, or house artificially warmed. [Obsolete except in the specific uses , , below.]
- n. Specifically— In horticulture, a glazed and artificially heated building for the culture of tender plants: the same as a greenhouse or hot house, except that the stove maintains a higher temperature—not lower than 60° F. See greenhouse, hothouse, and dry-stove.
- n. A drying-chamber, as for plants, extracts, conserves, etc.; also, a highly heated drying-room, used in various manufactures.
- n. A place for taking either liquid or vapor baths; a bath-house or bath-room.
- n. A closed or partly closed vessel or receiver in which fuel is burned, the radiated heat being utilized for warming a room or for cooking.
- n. In coram., a pottery-kiln.
- n. In a furnace, the oven in which the blast is heated.
- n. In bookbinding, an apparatus with which the finisher heats his tools, formerly made to burn charcoal, but latterly gas.
- n. to a kind of fireplace with back and sides of ironwork and some arrangement for heating the air in chambers which communicate with the room.
- n. A chamber in which hides are dehaired.
- n. A stove having a tank or reservoir for hot water.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- n. any heating apparatus
- n. a kitchen appliance used for cooking food
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
Examples
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Add a not-too-thin film of oil and add the scallops one at a time; brown them well on the first side for as long as 5 minutes, adjusting the heat so they don't burn which on my stove translates as "leave the heat on high", then turn and brown lightly on the second.
The Scallops of Springtime (Mark’s Take) - Bitten Blog - NYTimes.com
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And now that we have proper jacket-and-scarf weather happening in New York City, spending a few hours at the stove is a welcome prospect.
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Boiling lemon wedges, nutmeg, or cinnamon sticks in hot water on the stove is a really nice scent treat.
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That was a large what they call a stove-type tornado.
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So that's what we call the stove pipe type of tornado.
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When one bed's moved out, the room will look bigger; and the stove is all right.
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For his comfort the fire in the stove is always kept burning, both winter and summer.
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A good multi-fuel compact stove is real nice to pack away.
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A quality air tight stove is a necessity and it goes without saying take a couple good handsaws to cut wood.
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The “thing” on the stove is either a ceramic or an induction stove …
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