stove

Noun

Synonyms: kitchen stove range kitchen range cooking stove

WordNet 3.0

Noun (2)

a kitchen appliance used for cooking food“dinner was already on the stove”Synonyms: kitchen stove range kitchen range cooking stove
any heating apparatus

Webster's Dictionary (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. [1913 Webster]

Hydrocarbon burner, furnace, stove, a burner, furnace, or stove with which liquid fuel, as petroleum, is used. [1913 Webster]

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]

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

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]

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]