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STOVE

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 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

Any heating apparatus

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Hypernyms ("stove" is a kind of...):

heater; warmer (device that heats water or supplies warmth to a room)

Sense 2

Meaning:

A kitchen appliance used for cooking food

Example:

dinner was already on the stove

Synonyms:

cooking stove; kitchen range; kitchen stove; range; stove

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Hypernyms ("stove" is a kind of...):

kitchen appliance (a home appliance used in preparing food)

Meronyms (parts of "stove"):

grate; grating (a frame of iron bars to hold a fire)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "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)

potbelly; potbelly stove (a bulbous stove in which wood or coal is burned)

Primus; Primus stove (a portable paraffin cooking stove; used by campers)

spirit stove (a stove that burns a volatile liquid fuel such as alcohol)

 II. (verb) 

Sense 1

Past simple / past participle of the verb stave

Credits

 Context examples: 

Functional Activities Questionnaire-NACC Version (FAQ-NACC Version) Heating water, making a cup of coffee, turning off stove after use.

(FAQ-NACC Version - Heat water, Make Coffee, Turn Off Stove, NCI Thesaurus)

Functional Activities Questionnaire (FAQ) Heating water, making a cup of coffee, turning off stove after use.

(FAQ - Heat water, Make Coffee, Turn Off Stove, NCI Thesaurus)

Before an hour's out, I'll stove in your old block house like a rum puncheon.

(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)

The public, represented by a boy with a comforter, and a shabby-genteel man secretly eating crumbs out of his coat pockets, was warming itself at a stove in the centre of the Court.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

The biogas units at Chikkaballapur consist of underground composters filled with cattle dung to generate gas, which is then piped to kitchen stoves installed in village households.

(Shift to biogas helps revive forests, SciDev.Net)

Don't use a heating pad, heat lamp, or the heat of a stove, fireplace, or radiator for warming. Since frostbite makes an area numb, you could burn it.

(Frostbite, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention)

She saw a large, well-proportioned apartment, an handsome dimity bed, arranged as unoccupied with an housemaid's care, a bright Bath stove, mahogany wardrobes, and neatly painted chairs, on which the warm beams of a western sun gaily poured through two sash windows!

(Northanger Abbey, by Jane Austen)

When I had finished washing the dishes, I cleaned the cabin stove and carried the ashes up on deck to empty them.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

While waiting for the water to boil, he held his face over the stove.

(Love of Life and Other Stories, by Jack London)

Then the fellow in the stove thought that the doctor meant him, and full of terror, sprang out, crying: “That man knows everything!”

(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)