stove1
[stohv]
- 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.
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- to treat with or subject to heat, as in a stove.
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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; 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
stove2
[stohv]
- a simple past tense and past participle of stave.
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stave
[steyv]
- one of the thin, narrow, shaped pieces of wood that form the sides of a cask, tub, or similar vessel.
- a stick, rod, pole, or the like.
- a rung of a ladder, chair, etc.
- Prosody.
- a verse or stanza of a poem or song.
- the alliterating sound in a line of verse, as the w-sound in wind in the willows.
- Music. staff1(def 10).
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- to break in a stave or staves of (a cask or barrel) so as to release the wine, liquor, or other contents.
- to release (wine, liquor, etc.) by breaking the cask or barrel.
- to break or crush (something) inward (often followed by in).
- to break (a hole) in, especially in the hull of a boat.
- to break to pieces; splinter; smash.
- to furnish with a stave or staves.
- to beat with a stave or staff.
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- to become staved in, as a boat; break in or up.
- to move along rapidly.
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- stave off,
- to put, ward, or keep off, as by force or evasion.
- to prevent in time; forestall: He wasn't able to stave off bankruptcy.
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Origin of stave
Synonyms
See more synonyms for stave on Thesaurus.com4. See verse.
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Examples from the Web for stove
Contemporary Examples
Putin, with his comments Friday, just moved it to the front of the stove.
I was stuck between the sink and the stove, which I thought was fantastic!
There is also a mysterious Moomin ancestor who lives permanently in the stove.
He is, however, obedient about not turning on the stove burner without permission.
It was almost as large as the front room, with a stove, a refrigerator, a good-sized table and, in one corner, another double bed.
Historical Examples
When it is cold, the dog finds a spot in front of the stove.
Ancient ManHendrik Willem van Loon
The daily newspaper lay by the stove, with the corner torn accusingly.
VivietteWilliam J. Locke
Remove from the stove, allow them to cool, and serve with cream.
Woman's Institute Library of Cookery, Vol. 5Woman's Institute of Domestic Arts and Sciences
(b) How should they be adjusted for cooking on top of the stove?
Woman's Institute Library of Cookery, Vol. 1Woman's Institute of Domestic Arts and Sciences
Why do you make such a deafening noise, you pussy cat, there behind the stove?
Rico and WiseliJohanna Spyri
stove1
- another word for cooker (def. 1)
- any heating apparatus, such as a kiln
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- to process (ceramics, metalwork, etc) by heating in a stove
- Scot to stew (meat, vegetables, etc)
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Word Origin
Old English stofa bathroom; related to Old High German stuba steam room, Greek tuphos smoke
stove2
- a past tense and past participle of stave
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stave
- any one of a number of long strips of wood joined together to form a barrel, bucket, boat hull, etc
- any of various bars, slats, or rods, usually of wood, such as a rung of a ladder or a crosspiece bracing the legs of a chair
- any stick, staff, etc
- a stanza or verse of a poem
- music
- Britishan individual group of five lines and four spaces used in staff notation
- another word for staff 1 (def. 9)
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- (often foll by in) to break or crush (the staves of a boat, barrel, etc) or (of the staves of a boat) to be broken or crushed
- (tr usually foll by in) to burst or force (a hole in something)
- (tr) to provide (a ladder, chair, etc) with a stave or staves
- (tr) Scot to sprain (a finger, toe, etc)
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Word Origin
C14: back formation from staves, plural of staff 1
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Word Origin and History for stove
n.
mid-15c., "heated room, bath-room," from Middle Low German or Middle Dutch stove, both meaning "heated room," which was the original sense in English; a general West Germanic word (cf. Old English stofa "bath-room," German Stube "sitting room") of uncertain relationship to similar words in Romance languages (cf. Italian stufa, French étuve "sweating-room;" see stew (v.)). One theory traces them all to Vulgar Latin *extufare "take a steam bath." The meaning "device for heating or cooking" is first recorded 1610s. Stove pipe is recorded from 1690s; as a type of tall cylindrical hat for men, from 1851.
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stave
n.
"piece of a barrel," 1750, back-formation from staves (late 14c.), plural of staff (cf. leaves/leaf), possibly from Old English, but not recorded there. The verb (to stave in, past tense stove) is 1590s, originally nautical, on notion of bashing in the staves of a cask and letting out the contents; stave off (1620s) is literally "keep off with a staff," as of dogs.
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