Stove
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English
Noun
Stove (plural Stoves)- A heater, a closed apparatus to burn fuel for the warming of a room.
- A device for heating food, (UK) a cooker.
Verb
stove
- Simple past tense and past participle of stave.
Adjectives for Stove
solemn; nameless; diminutive; roaring; hot; ancient; fiery; sputtering.
Verbs for Stove
bask by—; consign to—; dampen—; draft —; extinguish—; feed—; hover over— kindle—; quench—; replenish—; tend— —affords; —comforts; —diffuses; —dies ——fumes; —insures; reeks; —roars; smoulders; —thaws.
Thesaurus
Seger cone, acid kiln, blast furnace, boiler, bottle-gas stove, brickkiln, burner, butane stove, calefactor, caliduct, cement kiln, coal furnace, coal stove, cook stove, cooker, cookery, element, enamel kiln, furnace, gas jet, gas stove, heater, heating duct, jet, kiln, kitchener, limekiln, muffle kiln, oven, pilot light, pyrometer, pyrometric cone, range, reverberatory, reverberatory kiln, salamander, salamander stove, smelter, steam pipe, tewel, tuyere, warmer
Pronunciation
- Rhymes: -əʊv
Etymology 1
From Middle Dutch, from Middle Low German, from Old High German stubā, stupā (“heated room”), from Proto-Germanic *stubō (“room, living room, heated room”). Cognate with Old English stofa, stofu (“bathroom, bathhouse”), Old Norse stofa (whence Icelandic stofa (“living room”) and Danish and Norwegian stue).
Etymology 2
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