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stove
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stove 1  (stv)
n.
1. An apparatus in which electricity or a fuel is used to furnish heat, as for cooking or warmth.
2. A device that produces heat for specialized, especially industrial, purposes.
3. A kiln.
4. Chiefly British A hothouse.

[Middle English, heated room, probably from Middle Low German or Middle Dutch, both probably from Vulgar Latin *extfa, from *extfre, to heat with steam; see stew.]
Word History: The word stove first referred not to a cooking or heating device but to a room for taking a hot-air or steam bath (first recorded in 1456). Around 1545 the word is recorded with reference to another room, such as a bedroom, heated with a furnace. The devices used to heat these rooms came to be called stoves as well, a use first found sometime between 1550 and 1625. Of course, heating devices that we would call stoves had long been in existence, going back to Roman times. However, the stove as the chief cooking device, taking the place of the fireplace, dates only to around the mid-19th century with the widespread use of wood-burning or coal-burning cooking stoves.

stove 2  (stv)
v.
A past tense and a past participle of stave.

stove1
n
1. (Cookery) another word for cooker [1]
2. (Engineering / General Engineering) any heating apparatus, such as a kiln
vb (tr)
1. (Engineering / General Engineering) to process (ceramics, metalwork, etc.) by heating in a stove
2. (Cookery) Scot to stew (meat, vegetables, etc.)
[Old English stofa bathroom; related to Old High German stuba steam room, Greek tuphos smoke]

stove2
vb
a past tense and past participle of stave
ThesaurusLegend:  Synonyms Related Words Antonyms
Noun1.stove - a kitchen appliance used for cooking foodstove - a kitchen appliance used for cooking food; "dinner was already on the stove"
charcoal burner - a stove that burns charcoal as fuel
cookstove - a stove for cooking (especially a wood- or coal-burning kitchen stove)
electric range - a kitchen range in which the heat for cooking is provided by electric power
gas cooker, gas range, gas stove - a range with gas rings and an oven for cooking with gas
grate, grating - a frame of iron bars to hold a fire
kitchen appliance - a home appliance used in preparing food
potbelly stove, potbelly - a bulbous stove in which wood or coal is burned
Primus stove, Primus - a portable paraffin cooking stove; used by campers
spirit stove - a stove that burns a volatile liquid fuel such as alcohol
2.stove - any heating apparatus
heater, warmer - device that heats water or supplies warmth to a room

stove
noun hob, range, cooker, burner, oven She put the kettle on the gas stove.
Translations
stove1 [stəʊv] N (for heating) → estufa f; (for cooking) → cocina f, horno m (LAm)

stove [ˈstəʊv] n
(= cooker) → cuisinière f
gas stove → cuisinière f à gaz
electric stove → cuisinière f électrique camping stove
(for heating)poêle m

stove
nOfen m; (for cooking) → Herd m; electric/gas stoveElektro-/Gasherd m

stove:
stove enamel
nEinbrennlack m
stovepipe
nOfenrohr nt
stovepipe hat
n (inf)Angströhre f (inf), → Zylinder m

stove1 [stəʊv] n
a. (for heating) → stufa
b. (for cooking) → cucina; (000, small) → fornelletto
gas/electric stove → cucina a gas/elettrica

stove
n stove [stəuv]
an apparatus using coal, gas, electricity or other fuel, used for cooking, or for heating a room a gas/electric (cooking) stove; Put the saucepan on the stove. stoof مَوْقِد، مِدْفأَه، وِجاق пещ kamna, sporák komfur; ovn; kakkelovn der Ofen θερμάστρα, σόμπα, εστία (μαγειρέματος) estufa, cocina, horno pliit, ahi اجاق خوراك پزي liesi, kamiina cuisinière, poêle תָנוּר स्टोव, चूल्हा, अंगीठी, गरमखाना, आतिशदान štednjak tűzhely; kályha kompor eldavél stufa, fornello レンジ 스토브, 난로 viryklė, krosnis plīts; krāsns dapur kachel, fornuis komfyr piec fogão maşină de gătit; sobă печь; (кухонная) плита pec, sporák peč peć spis, kamin เตาไฟ soba, ocak 爐(子) піч; кухонна плита چولہا bếp lò, lò sưởi

stove موقد, مَوْقِد sporák komfur, ovn Herd, Ofen κουζίνα, σόμπα estufa, hornilla liesi cuisinière, poêle štednjak fornello, stufa 料理用レンジ 스토브, 요리 기구 fornuis, kachel komfyr kuchenka, piecyk fogão кухонная плита spis เตาทำอาหาร, เตาหุงอาหาร ocak, soba bếp, cái bếp 炉子, 炊具


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