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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
stove
noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a gas cooker/oven/stove
▪ Gas cookers are more efficient than electric ones.
potbellied stove
slave (away) over a hot stove (=cook – used humorously)
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
hot
▪ A man who touches a hot stove does not need to believe in pain.
▪ Mavis spread her fingers, about to press, then lifted them quickly, as though off a hot stove.
▪ While Sarah travels, Richard slaves over a hot stove, lovingly preparing a meal.
▪ This is clearly illustrated by the example of a person touching a hot stove.
▪ Coventry was in the kitchen, the kettle boiled and keeping hot on the stove.
small
▪ She sat on the small stove for some while gradually becoming more agitated.
▪ My small upstairs stove throws out a lot of heat and is probably fuel efficient.
▪ Each room had a small stove and sink.
▪ I would strongly recommend, where club rules allow, that you take a small stove and tea-brewing equipment.
■ NOUN
gas
▪ The gas stove was commonplace enough, although very old, standing on four straight legs.
▪ Leila cooks on a tiny gas stove nestled into the hold of one of the boats.
▪ A is the armchair and E the gas stove.
▪ And where was her gas stove and the red rose bush from the yard?
▪ Then we boiled it dutifully and heated our tins on the Calor gas stove in the kitchen.
▪ She lights the gas stove, and makes herself a breakfast of muesli, wholemeal toast and decaffeinated coffee.
▪ To fight dirt costs more it you have only a gas stove on which to heat water.
▪ For many years I huddled over a calor gas stove in the winter and ate beans on toast.
kitchen
▪ Like the fire in the best room, the kitchen stove was kept burning day and night, winter and summer.
▪ The cord of wood for the kitchen stove was cut too short.
▪ The fire in the living-room had gone out, and the kitchen stove was burning low.
wood
▪ In the pub were twenty or so other walkers, similarly soaked, all crowding round a massive wood stove.
▪ To heat it, they chopped kindling to fire their wood stoves.
▪ He's got a wood stove in there, hasn't he?
▪ An old wood stove decorates the center of the dimly lit hall.
▪ Nenna made the tea and lit the wood stove.
■ VERB
light
▪ The first few times I lit the stove, up popped yellow flames and I turned it off.
▪ Hassan has to buy gas cylinders to light the stove and the two small lamps that light his apartment.
▪ She lights the gas stove, and makes herself a breakfast of muesli, wholemeal toast and decaffeinated coffee.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ a camp stove
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Ingeniously designed, the main cabin contained a stove, a curtained bed and cupboards whose painted doors let down into tables.
▪ One old petrol stove clogged up and failed to work at all.
▪ Put a small skillet on the stove.
▪ Several kettles were on the stove, simmering.
▪ Some stoves are now designed to run on unleaded petrol.
▪ Then I put in a little water on the bottom, and put it back on the stove to soften.
▪ This is clearly illustrated by the example of a person touching a hot stove.
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The Collaborative International Dictionary
stove

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.

Hydrocarbon burner, furnace, stove, a burner, furnace, or stove with which liquid fuel, as petroleum, is used.

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Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
stove

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 (Old English stofa "bath-room," Old High German stuba, German Stube "sitting room").\n

\nOf uncertain relationship to similar words in Romance languages (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.

Wiktionary
stove

Etymology 1 n. A heater, a closed apparatus to burn fuel for the warming of a room. vb. 1 (context transitive English) To heat or dry, as in a stove. 2 (context transitive English) To keep warm, in a house or room, by artificial heat. Etymology 2

vb. (en-past of: stave)

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WordNet
stave

  1. v. furnich with staves; "stave a ladder"

  2. burst or force (a hole) into something [syn: stave in]

  3. [also: stove]

stave

  1. n. (music) the system of five horizontal lines on which the musical notes are written [syn: staff]

  2. one of several thin slats of wood forming the sides of a barrel or bucket [syn: lag]

  3. a crosspiece between the legs of a chair [syn: rung, round]

  4. [also: stove]

stove

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

  2. any heating apparatus

stove

See stave

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Wikipedia
Stove (disambiguation)

A stove is an appliance that heats or cooks or both.

Stove

A stove is an enclosed space in which fuel is burned to provide heating, either to heat the space in which the stove is situated, or to heat the stove itself and items placed on it. This article is principally concerned with enclosed stoves burning solid fuels for room heating. A kitchen stove is used to cook food. A wood-burning stove or a coal stove is typically used for heating a dwelling. Enclosed stoves are more efficient and prevents air from being sucked from the room into the chimney.

Due to concerns about air pollution, efforts have been made to improve stove design. Pellet stoves, for example are a type of clean-burning stove. Air-tight stoves more completely combust wood and eliminate polluting combustion products. In the U.S. since 1992, all wood stoves being manufactured must limit particulate emission.

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Usage examples of "stove".

It was filled not quite to the brim with a mass of what looked like thick red slime and it bubbled continuously as if aboil on some gigantic stove.

An innocent-looking piece of firewood set off a bundle of aerolite cartridges if anyone picked it up to put it in the stove.

Well, he killed that shoat right there, an' he got Ma to light up the stove.

There was always deer sausage on the stove, and a gumbo full of oysters, shrimp, crabmeat, chicken, Andouille sausage would brim green bubbling.

He would slump in his chair as Aunty Em threw pots about the stove, spilling, burning, humming hymns to herself.

Thus we should profit by the heat of the stove, which was to cook our food and warm the cavern during the long days, or rather the long nights of the austral winter.

On the large stove of porcelain inlaid with copper baguettes the statue of a woman, draped to the chin, gazed motionless on the room full of life.

She loved her oversized, fire engine red stove imported from France, her Cuisinart, espresso machine, Belgian waffler, pasta maker, her Magnalite pots and pans, Henckels knives, cast-iron bakeware, microwave, and even her electric wok.

Sarah finished washing Biffin the sink and, wrapping him in a towel, gave him to Olivia to hold while she fetched his pyjamas from the stove.

So a box was placed by the stove with an old jacket in it to keep Blinky warm.

He bolted the door shut as quiet as he could and crawled into the blankets laid out on his pallet by the stove.

When Bubber was done with the plate he glanced toward the kitchen again, at the rest of the cookies on the stove.

Mother and son ate in the kitchen, with Madame Chabot jumping up from her chair every other minute and moving to and fro between the table and the stove.

I required some kind of heat in my room, and could not bear a charcoal brazier, so I incited an ingenious tin-smith to make me a stove with a pipe going out of the window.

Presently we passengers had debarked, and stood stamping and chafing our hands about the stove in the station-house.