stove

¹

[ stohv ]

noun

1. a portable or fixed apparatus that furnishes heat for warmth, cooking, etc., commonly using coal, oil, gas, wood, or electricity as a source of power.
2. a heated chamber or box for some special purpose, as a drying room or a kiln for firing pottery.

verb (used with object)

, stoved, stov·ing.

1. to treat with or subject to heat, as in a stove.

stove

²

[ stohv ]

verb

1. a simple past tense and past participle of stave.

stove

¹

/ stəʊv /

verb

1. a past tense and past participle of stave

stove

²

/ stəʊv /

noun

1. another word for cooker
2. any heating apparatus, such as a kiln

verb

1. to process (ceramics, metalwork, etc) by heating in a stove
2. to stew (meat, vegetables, etc)

Word History and Origins

Origin of stove¹

1425–75; (noun) late Middle English: sweat bath, heated room, probably < Middle Dutch, Middle Low German, cognate with Old English stofa, stofu heated room for bathing, Old High German stuba ( German Stube room; bierstube ), Old Norse stofa; early Germanic borrowing < Vulgar Latin *extupa, *extūpa (> French étuve sweat room of a bath; stew ¹ ), noun derivative of *extūpāre, *extūfāre to fill with vapor, equivalent to Latin ex- ex- ¹ + Vulgar Latin *-tūfāre < Greek tȳ́phein to raise smoke, smoke, akin to tŷphos fever ( typhus ); alternatively explained as a native Germanic base, borrowed into Romance ( izba ); (v.) late Middle English stoven to subject to hot-air bath, derivative of the noun

Word History and Origins

Origin of stove¹

Old English stofa bathroom; related to Old High German stuba steam room, Greek tuphos smoke

Example Sentences

"When gas comes out of a stove, you want to burn all the gas," Diallo said.

From Science Daily

And with the hot stove set to fully heat up over the rest of this month, here are a few takeaways on where the team stands.

From Los Angeles Times

Sunday, most clocks on phones and devices will automatically fall back an hour to 1 a.m., while clocks in cars and on stoves will probably need to be manually adjusted.

From Los Angeles Times

You had a glass syringe with a steel needle that you sent away to get sharpened and you had to boil them up on the stove, and keep them in a flask.

From BBC

It provides thousands of dollars in the form of rebates and tax credits for a consumer to get an EV and electrify their home with solar panels, a heat pump, and an induction stove.

From Salon

Related Words

• boiler
• cooker
• heater
• kiln
• microwave
• oven