stove

[ stohv ]

/ stoʊv /

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noun

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.

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.

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

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Origin of stove

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; cf. bierstube), Old Norse stofa;early Germanic borrowing <Vulgar Latin *extupa,*extūpa (>French étuve sweat room of a bath; cf. stew¹), 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 (see typhus); alternatively explained as a native Germanic base, borrowed into Romance (cf. izba); (v.) late Middle English stoven to subject to hot-air bath, derivative of the noun

Words nearby stove

stoush, stout, stouten, stout-hearted, stoutish, stove, stove bolt, stove coal, stove enamel, stovepipe, stovepipe hat

Other definitions for stove (2 of 2)

stove²

[ stohv ]

/ stoʊv /

verb

a simple past tense and past participle of stave.

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How to use stove in a sentence

In electric stoves, the broiler is a coil of metal that gets hot as hell but never lets out flames.
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She did give us some instructions, like how to use the wood stove, but she didn’t charge us.
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While nothing can beat the satisfaction of consuming them at an actual diner, these pancakes are almost as good coming off your own stove.
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Given their varying cooking skills and some units not including full stoves, the players frequent Roaming Rooster, Chipotle and Negril, a Jamaican restaurant.
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In the annual grant application for extra state funding, Varahn secured a bigger clothing allowance — $200 per resident — and a double-oven stove for the communal kitchen.
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Upstairs, in the living room, splintered logs of hemlock cackled and spat from inside the wood stove.
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Putin, with his comments Friday, just moved it to the front of the stove.
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I was stuck between the sink and the stove, which I thought was fantastic!
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There is also a mysterious Moomin ancestor who lives permanently in the stove.
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He is, however, obedient about not turning on the stove burner without permission.
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Elmer Spiker, mine host of the inn, was huddled close to the stove, and was reading by the light of a lamp.
The Soldier of the Valley|Nelson Lloyd
Henry Holmes was standing with his back to the stove, one hand wagging up and down at the solemn line of figures on the bench.
The Soldier of the Valley|Nelson Lloyd
Improved stove pipings are now being manufactured in the States which in appearance exactly resemble cast-iron.
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Suddenly he took them in his arms and walked quickly over to the stove, his eye roving in search of a match-box.
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Elmer Spiker folded the county paper and came around to our side of the stove.
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British Dictionary definitions for stove (1 of 2)

stove¹

/ (stəʊv) /

noun

another word for cooker (def. 1)

any heating apparatus, such as a kiln

verb (tr)

to process (ceramics, metalwork, etc) by heating in a stove

Scot to stew (meat, vegetables, etc)

Word Origin for stove

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

British Dictionary definitions for stove (2 of 2)