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Definitions for Stove

[1] a portable or fixed apparatus that furnishes heat for warmth, cooking, etc., commonly using coal, oil, gas, wood, or electricity as a source of power.
[2] a heated chamber or box for some special purpose, as a drying room or a kiln for firing pottery.
[3] to treat with or subject to heat, as in a stove.
[4] a simple past tense and past participle of stave.
[5] one of the thin, narrow, shaped pieces of wood that form the sides of a cask, tub, or similar vessel.
[6] a stick, rod, pole, or the like.
[7] a rung of a ladder, chair, etc.
[8] Prosody . a verse or stanza of a poem or song. the alliterating sound in a line of verse, as the w- sound in wind in the willows.
[9] Music . staff1(def 10) .
[10] to break in a stave or staves of (a cask or barrel) so as to release the wine, liquor, or other contents.
[11] to release (wine, liquor, etc.) by breaking the cask or barrel.
[12] to break or crush (something) inward (often followed by in ).
[13] to break (a hole) in, especially in the hull of a boat.
[14] to break to pieces; splinter; smash.
[15] to furnish with a stave or staves.
[16] to beat with a stave or staff.
[17] to become staved in, as a boat; break in or up.
[18] to move along rapidly.
[19] stave off , to put, ward, or keep off, as by force or evasion. to prevent in time; forestall: He wasn't able to stave off bankruptcy.
[20] another word for cooker (def. 1)
[21] any heating apparatus, such as a kiln
[22] to process (ceramics, metalwork, etc) by heating in a stove
[23] Scot to stew (meat, vegetables, etc)
[24] a past tense and past participle of stave
[25] any one of a number of long strips of wood joined together to form a barrel, bucket, boat hull, etc
[26] any of various bars, slats, or rods, usually of wood, such as a rung of a ladder or a crosspiece bracing the legs of a chair
[27] any stick, staff, etc
[28] a stanza or verse of a poem
[29] music British an individual group of five lines and four spaces used in staff notation another word for staff 1 (def. 9)
[30] (often foll by in) to break or crush (the staves of a boat, barrel, etc) or (of the staves of a boat) to be broken or crushed
[31] (tr usually foll by in ) to burst or force (a hole in something)
[32] (tr) to provide (a ladder, chair, etc) with a stave or staves
[33] (tr) Scot to sprain (a finger, toe, etc)

Words related to Stove

heater, oven, microwave, kiln, cooker, boiler, warmer

Words nearby Stove

stout, stout-hearted, stouten, stouthearted, stoutish, stove, stove bolt, stove coal, stove enamel, stovepipe, stovepipe hat

Origin of Stove

ave1125–75; (noun) Middle English, back formation from staves; (v.) derivative of the noun

Other words from Stove

un·staved , adjective

Word origin for Stove

aveC14: back formation from staves , plural of staff 1

Synonyms for Stove

boiler, cooker, heater, kiln, microwave, oven, warmer, convection oven, electric stove, toaster oven, wood stove