Stove

Quick meaning: Stove is a noun meaning A heater, a closed apparatus to burn fuel for the warming of a room.

Meaning

A heater, a closed apparatus to burn fuel for the warming of a room.

More Meanings

1. A device for heating food, (UK) a cooker.
2. A stovetop, with hotplates.
3. (transitive) To heat or dry, as in a stove.
4. (transitive) To keep warm, in a house or room, by artificial heat.
5. (transitive) To jam; to sprain.
6. (chiefly UK) A hothouse (heated greenhouse).
7. (dated) A house or room artificially warmed or heated.

Example Sentences

to stove feathers

How tedious is it to them that live in stoves and caves half a year together, as in Iceland, Muscovy, or under the pole!

The wide use of amine-cured epoxy paints is mostly due to their providing many of the properties of stoved epoxy films from an ambient temperature-cured system.

We toted in the wood and got the fire going nice and comfortable. Lord James still set in one of the chairs and Applegate had cabbaged the other and was hugging the stove.

Word Forms

• stoves
• stoving
• stoved

Synonyms for stove

Depending on context, synonyms include range.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include range, furnace, smelter, kiln, heater, heating.

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