Stove
[stəʊv] or [stov]
Definition
(noun.) any heating apparatus.
(noun.) a kitchen appliance used for cooking food; 'dinner was already on the stove'.
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Definition
(-) of Stave
(-) imp. of Stave.
(n.) 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.
(n.) 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.
(v. t.) To keep warm, in a house or room, by artificial heat; as, to stove orange trees.
(v. t.) To heat or dry, as in a stove; as, to stove feathers.
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Definition
n. an apparatus with a fire for warming a room cooking &c.: a pottery-kiln: an oven for heating the blast of a blast-furnace: a drying-room.—v.t. to heat or keep warm.—ns. Stove′-pipe a metal pipe for carrying smoke from a stove to a chimney-flue; Stove′pipe-hat a high silk hat; Stove′-plant a plant cultivated in a stove; Stove′-plate a lid or plate covering one of the holes in a cooking-stove.
pa.t. and pa.p. of stave.
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Unserious Contents or Definition
To see a cooking stove in a dream, denotes that much unpleasantness will be modified by your timely interference. For a young woman to dream of using a cooking stove, foretells she will be too hasty in showing her appreciation of the attention of some person and thereby lose a closer friendship.
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Examples
- The stove-pipe fell, dislocated at every joint. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- Douglas Galton of the English army for use in barracks, but this stove is also admirably adapted for houses. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
- We see that the source of carbon dioxide is practically inexhaustible, coming as it does from every stove, furnace, and candle, and further with every breath of a living organism. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
- Without noticing either of us he went up to the stove and kicked it over. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- I was shown a little kitchen with a little stove and oven, with few but bright brasses, two chairs and a table. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
- I remember, after having witnessed the destructive effects of a fire, I could not even behold a small one in a stove, without a sensation of fear. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
- This improvised stove will burn without attention for twenty-four hours, and it is amazing what a great amount of heat is given off from so small a surface. William K. David. Secrets of Wise Men, Chemists and Great Physicians.
- He entered the van, where there was a fire in a stove. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
- Every day, uncontrolled fire wipes out human lives and destroys vast amounts of property; every day, fire, controlled and regulated in stove and furnace, cooks our food and warms our houses. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
- The stove stood near my desk, he attacked it; the little iron door was nearly dashed from its hinges, the fuel was made to fly. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
- Inured now for so long a time to rooms with bare boards, black benchesdesks, and stoves, the blue saloon seemed to me gorgeous. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
- Stoves of this character are as efficient and economical as coal stoves, and are in great demand, especially where coal and wood are scarce and high-priced. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
- He dwells upon the pleasure of an open fire, and the destruction of this pleasure by the use of the closed stoves. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
- Oil, Vapour, and Gas Stoves, their Construction and Operation. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
- Of course stoves, generically speaking, are not a production of the nineteenth century. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
- In heating appliances, steam and water heating systems, base burning and Latrobe stoves, hot air furnaces, gas and oil stoves. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
- In his description of this stove at that time Franklin also referred to the iron box stoves used by the Dutch, the iron plates extending from the hearths and sides, etc. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
- Hot coals, red-hot stoves, gas flames, and candles shine by their own light, and are self-luminous. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
- He also made very beautiful tiles to overlay walls, stoves, and floors. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
- The labor involved in the care of numerous stoves is considerable, and hence the advent of a central heating stove, or furnace, was a great saving in strength and fuel. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
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