'Stove' definitions:

Definition of 'stove'

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noun
A kitchen appliance used for cooking food; "dinner was already on the stove" [syn: stove, kitchen stove, range, kitchen range, cooking stove]
noun
Any heating apparatus

Definition of 'Stove'

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  • Stove \Stove\ (st[=o]v), imp. of Stave. [1913 Webster]

Definition of 'Stove'

From: GCIDE
  • Stove \Stove\, n. [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.]
  • 1. 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. [1913 Webster]
  • When most of the waiters were commanded away to their supper, the parlor or stove being nearly emptied, in came a company of musketeers. --Earl of Strafford. [1913 Webster]
  • How tedious is it to them that live in stoves and caves half a year together, as in Iceland, Muscovy, or under the pole! --Burton. [1913 Webster]
  • 2. 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. [1913 Webster]
  • 3. 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. [PJC]
  • Cooking stove, a stove with an oven, opening for pots, kettles, and the like, -- used for cooking.
  • Dry stove. See under Dry.
  • Foot stove. See under Foot.
  • Franklin stove. See in the Vocabulary.
  • Stove plant (Bot.), a plant which requires artificial heat to make it grow in cold or cold temperate climates.
  • Stove plate, thin iron castings for the parts of stoves. [1913 Webster]

Definition of 'Stove'

From: GCIDE
  • Stove \Stove\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Stoved; p. pr. & vb. n. Stoving.]
  • 1. To keep warm, in a house or room, by artificial heat; as, to stove orange trees. --Bacon. [1913 Webster]
  • 2. To heat or dry, as in a stove; as, to stove feathers. [1913 Webster]

Definition of 'Stove'

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  • Stave \Stave\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Staved (st[=a]vd) or Stove (st[=o]v); p. pr. & vb. n. Staving.] [From Stave, n., or Staff, n.]
  • 1. To break in a stave or the staves of; to break a hole in; to burst; -- often with in; as, to stave a cask; to stave in a boat. [1913 Webster]
  • 2. To push, as with a staff; -- with off. [1913 Webster]
  • The condition of a servant staves him off to a distance. --South. [1913 Webster]
  • 3. To delay by force or craft; to drive away; -- usually with off; as, to stave off the execution of a project. [1913 Webster]
  • And answered with such craft as women use, Guilty or guiltless, to stave off a chance That breaks upon them perilously. --Tennyson. [1913 Webster]
  • 4. To suffer, or cause, to be lost by breaking the cask. [1913 Webster]
  • All the wine in the city has been staved. --Sandys. [1913 Webster]
  • 5. To furnish with staves or rundles. --Knolles. [1913 Webster]
  • 6. To render impervious or solid by driving with a calking iron; as, to stave lead, or the joints of pipes into which lead has been run. [1913 Webster]
  • To stave and tail, in bear baiting, (to stave) to interpose with the staff, doubtless to stop the bear; (to tail) to hold back the dog by the tail. --Nares. [1913 Webster]

Definition of 'stove'

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  • Hydrocarbon \Hy`dro*car"bon\, n. [Hydro-, 2 + carbon.] (Chem.) A compound containing only hydrogen and carbon, as methane, benzene, etc.; also, by extension, any of their derivatives. [1913 Webster]
  • Hydrocarbon burner, furnace, stove, a burner, furnace, or stove with which liquid fuel, as petroleum, is used. [1913 Webster]

Synonyms of 'stove'

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