Stove

from WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006)
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
    
from The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
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
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
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
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
Stove \Stove\ (st[=o]v),
   imp. of {Stave}.
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from Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
42 Moby Thesaurus words for "stove":
      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

    

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