dictionary definitions for "stove"


From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  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.
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     Hydrocarbon burner, furnace, stove, a burner, furnace,
        or stove with which liquid fuel, as petroleum, is used.
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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  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.
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     2. To push, as with a staff; -- with off.
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              The condition of a servant staves him off to a
              distance.                             --South.
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     3. To delay by force or craft; to drive away; -- usually with
        off; as, to stave off the execution of a project.
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              And answered with such craft as women use,
              Guilty or guiltless, to stave off a chance
              That breaks upon them perilously.     --Tennyson.
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     4. To suffer, or cause, to be lost by breaking the cask.
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              All the wine in the city has been staved. --Sandys.
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     5. To furnish with staves or rundles. --Knolles.
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     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.
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     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.
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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [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.
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     2. To heat or dry, as in a stove; as, to stove feathers.
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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [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.
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              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.
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              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.
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     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.
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     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.
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     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.
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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Stove \Stove\ (st[=o]v),
     imp. of Stave.
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From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:

  stove
      n 1: a kitchen appliance used for cooking food; "dinner was
           already on the stove" [syn: stove, kitchen stove,
           range, kitchen range, cooking stove]
      2: any heating apparatus


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