stove


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stove 1

 (stōv)
n.
1. An apparatus in which electricity or a fuel is used to furnish heat, as for cooking or warmth.
2. A device that produces heat for specialized, especially industrial, purposes.
3. A kiln.
4. Chiefly British A hothouse.

[Middle English, heated room, probably from Middle Low German or Middle Dutch, both probably from Vulgar Latin *extūfa, from *extūfāre, to heat with steam; see stew.]

stove 2

 (stōv)
v.
A past tense and a past participle of stave.
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stove

(stəʊv)
n
1. (Cookery) another word for cooker1
2. (General Engineering) any heating apparatus, such as a kiln
vb (tr)
3. (General Engineering) to process (ceramics, metalwork, etc) by heating in a stove
4. (Cookery) Scot to stew (meat, vegetables, etc)
[Old English stofa bathroom; related to Old High German stuba steam room, Greek tuphos smoke]

stove

(stəʊv)
vb
a past tense and past participle of stave
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stove1

(stoʊv)

n.
1. a portable or fixed apparatus that furnishes heat for warmth or cooking and uses coal, oil, gas, wood, or electricity for fuel or power.
2. a heated chamber or box for some special purpose, as firing pottery.
[1425–75; (n.) late Middle English: sweat bath, heated room, probably < Middle Dutch, Middle Low German, c. Old English stofa, stofu heated room for bathing, Old High German stuba, Old Norse stofa; probably Germanic borrowing < Vulgar Latin *extupa,*extūpa, n. derivative of *extūpāre,*extūfāre to fill with vapor = Latin ex- ex-1 + Vulgar Latin *-tūfāre < Greek typhein to raise smoke, smoke]

stove2

(stoʊv)

v.
a pt. and pp. of stave.
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stove


Past participle: stoved
Gerund: stoving

Imperative
stove
stove
Present
I stove
you stove
he/she/it stoves
we stove
you stove
they stove
Preterite
I stoved
you stoved
he/she/it stoved
we stoved
you stoved
they stoved
Present Continuous
I am stoving
you are stoving
he/she/it is stoving
we are stoving
you are stoving
they are stoving
Present Perfect
I have stoved
you have stoved
he/she/it has stoved
we have stoved
you have stoved
they have stoved
Past Continuous
I was stoving
you were stoving
he/she/it was stoving
we were stoving
you were stoving
they were stoving
Past Perfect
I had stoved
you had stoved
he/she/it had stoved
we had stoved
you had stoved
they had stoved
Future
I will stove
you will stove
he/she/it will stove
we will stove
you will stove
they will stove
Future Perfect
I will have stoved
you will have stoved
he/she/it will have stoved
we will have stoved
you will have stoved
they will have stoved
Future Continuous
I will be stoving
you will be stoving
he/she/it will be stoving
we will be stoving
you will be stoving
they will be stoving
Present Perfect Continuous
I have been stoving
you have been stoving
he/she/it has been stoving
we have been stoving
you have been stoving
they have been stoving
Future Perfect Continuous
I will have been stoving
you will have been stoving
he/she/it will have been stoving
we will have been stoving
you will have been stoving
they will have been stoving
Past Perfect Continuous
I had been stoving
you had been stoving
he/she/it had been stoving
we had been stoving
you had been stoving
they had been stoving
Conditional
I would stove
you would stove
he/she/it would stove
we would stove
you would stove
they would stove
Past Conditional
I would have stoved
you would have stoved
he/she/it would have stoved
we would have stoved
you would have stoved
they would have stoved
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ThesaurusAntonymsRelated WordsSynonymsLegend:
Noun1.stove - a kitchen appliance used for cooking foodstove - a kitchen appliance used for cooking food; "dinner was already on the stove"
charcoal burner - a stove that burns charcoal as fuel
cookstove - a stove for cooking (especially a wood- or coal-burning kitchen stove)
electric range - a kitchen range in which the heat for cooking is provided by electric power
gas cooker, gas range, gas stove - a range with gas rings and an oven for cooking with gas
grate, grating - a frame of iron bars to hold a fire
kitchen appliance - a home appliance used in preparing food
potbelly stove, potbelly - a bulbous stove in which wood or coal is burned
Primus stove, Primus - a portable paraffin cooking stove; used by campers
spirit stove - a stove that burns a volatile liquid fuel such as alcohol
2.stove - any heating apparatus
heater, warmer - device that heats water or supplies warmth to a room
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stove

noun hob, range, cooker, burner, oven She put the kettle on the gas stove.
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Translations
مَوْقِدمَوْقِد، مِدْفأَه، وِجاق
kamnasporákpec
komfurovnkakkelovn
hellaliesiuuni
štednjakpeć
kályhatűzhely
eldavél
ストーブ料理用レンジ
스토브요리 기구
krāsnsplīts
sobă
kuhalnikpečštedilnik
пећ
spisugneldstadhärd
เตาทำอาหารเตาหุงอาหาร
bếp

stove

1 [stəʊv] N (for heating) → estufa f; (for cooking) → cocina f, horno m (LAm)
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stove

[ˈstəʊv] n
(= cooker) → cuisinière f
gas stove → cuisinière f à gaz
electric stove → cuisinière f électrique camping stove
(for heating)poêle m
Collins English/French Electronic Resource. © HarperCollins Publishers 2005

stove

nOfen m; (for cooking) → Herd m; electric/gas stoveElektro-/Gasherd m

stove

:
stove enamel
nEinbrennlack m
stovepipe
nOfenrohr nt
stovepipe hat
n (inf)Angströhre f (inf), → Zylinder m
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stove

1 [stəʊv] n
a. (for heating) → stufa
b. (for cooking) → cucina; (000, small) → fornelletto
gas/electric stove → cucina a gas/elettrica
Collins Italian Dictionary 1st Edition © HarperCollins Publishers 1995

stove

(stəuv) noun
an apparatus using coal, gas, electricity or other fuel, used for cooking, or for heating a room. a gas/electric (cooking) stove; Put the saucepan on the stove.
Kernerman English Multilingual Dictionary © 2006-2013 K Dictionaries Ltd.

stove

مَوْقِد sporák komfur, ovn Herd, Ofen κουζίνα, σόμπα cocina, estufa, hornilla liesi cuisinière, poêle štednjak fornello, stufa 料理用レンジ 스토브, 요리 기구 fornuis, kachel komfyr kuchenka, piecyk fogão кухонная плита spis เตาทำอาหาร, เตาหุงอาหาร ocak, soba bếp 炉子, 炊具
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He had some trouble in breaking the eggs - or rather not so much trouble in breaking them exactly as in getting them into the frying-pan when broken, and keeping them off his trousers, and preventing them from running up his sleeve; but he fixed some half-a-dozen into the pan at last, and then squatted down by the side of the stove and chivied them about with a fork.
`But first you come down to the kitchen with me, and have a nice warm bath behind the stove. Bring your things; there's nobody about.'
A great rolling sea, dashing high up against the reeling ship's high tetering side, stove in the boat's bottom at the stern, and left it again, all dripping through like a sieve.
Once upon a time when wishes came true there was a king's son who was enchanted by an old witch, so that he was obliged to sit in a large iron stove in a wood.
In his own room in the New Willard House he built a fire in the stove and lay down on top of the bed.
She stopped in a career from a seething stove to a pan-covered table.
Mademoiselle was poking at a rusty stove that smoked a little and warmed the room indifferently.
When he returned to the kitchen Mattie had pushed up his chair to the stove and seated herself near the lamp with a bit of sewing.
Delightful inducements to embark, fine chance for promotion, it seems -- aye, a stove boat will make me an immortal by brevet.
The roulette-ball was not even spinning, and the gamekeeper stood by the roaring, red-hot stove, talking with the young, dark-eyed woman, comely of face and figure, who was known from Juneau to Fort Yukon as the Virgin.
It seemed really to the little maiden as though she were sitting before a large iron stove, with burnished brass feet and a brass ornament at top.
Messner set up his light sheet-iron stove and starred a fire.