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COOKING STOVE
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
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 ("cooking stove" is a kind of...):
kitchen appliance (a home appliance used in preparing food)
Meronyms (parts of "cooking stove"):
grate; grating (a frame of iron bars to hold a fire)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "cooking 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)
