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 Definitions for stove: The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
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Hydrocarbon \Hy`dro*car"bon\, n. [Hydro-, 2 + carbon.] (Chem.)
A compound containing only hydrogen and carbon, as methane,
benzene, etc.; also, by extension, any of their derivatives.
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Hydrocarbon burner, furnace, stove, a burner, furnace,
or stove with which liquid fuel, as petroleum, is used.
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The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
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Stave \Stave\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Staved (st[=a]vd) or
Stove (st[=o]v); p. pr. & vb. n. Staving.] [From Stave,
n., or Staff, n.]
1. To break in a stave or the staves of; to break a hole in;
to burst; -- often with in; as, to stave a cask; to stave
in a boat.
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2. To push, as with a staff; -- with off.
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The condition of a servant staves him off to a
distance. --South.
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3. To delay by force or craft; to drive away; -- usually with
off; as, to stave off the execution of a project.
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And answered with such craft as women use,
Guilty or guiltless, to stave off a chance
That breaks upon them perilously. --Tennyson.
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4. To suffer, or cause, to be lost by breaking the cask.
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All the wine in the city has been staved. --Sandys.
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5. To furnish with staves or rundles. --Knolles.
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6. To render impervious or solid by driving with a calking
iron; as, to stave lead, or the joints of pipes into which
lead has been run.
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To stave and tail, in bear baiting, (to stave) to interpose
with the staff, doubtless to stop the bear; (to tail) to
hold back the dog by the tail. --Nares.
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The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
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Stove \Stove\, n. [D. stoof a foot stove, originally, a heated
room, a room for a bath; akin to G. stube room, OHG. stuba a
heated room, AS. stofe, Icel. stofa a room, bathing room, Sw.
stufva, stuga, a room, Dan. stue; of unknown origin. Cf.
Estufa, Stew, Stufa.]
1. 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.
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When most of the waiters were commanded away to
their supper, the parlor or stove being nearly
emptied, in came a company of musketeers. --Earl of
Strafford.
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How tedious is it to them that live in stoves and
caves half a year together, as in Iceland, Muscovy,
or under the pole! --Burton.
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2. 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.
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3. Hence, in modern dwellings: An appliance having a top
surface with fittings suitable for heating pots and pans
for cooking, frying, or boiling food, most commonly heated
by gas or electricity, and often combined with an oven in
a single unit; a cooking stove. Such units commonly have
two to six heating surfaces, called burners, even if they
are heated by electricity rather than a gas flame.
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Cooking stove, a stove with an oven, opening for pots,
kettles, and the like, -- used for cooking.
Dry stove. See under Dry.
Foot stove. See under Foot.
Franklin stove. See in the Vocabulary.
Stove plant (Bot.), a plant which requires artificial heat
to make it grow in cold or cold temperate climates.
Stove plate, thin iron castings for the parts of stoves.
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The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
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Stove \Stove\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Stoved; p. pr. & vb. n.
Stoving.]
1. To keep warm, in a house or room, by artificial heat; as,
to stove orange trees. --Bacon.
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2. To heat or dry, as in a stove; as, to stove feathers.
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The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
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Stove \Stove\ (st[=o]v),
imp. of Stave.
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WordNet (r) 2.0
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stave
n 1: (music) the system of five horizontal lines on which the
musical notes are written [syn: staff]
2: one of several thin slats of wood forming the sides of a
barrel or bucket [syn: lag]
3: a crosspiece between the legs of a chair [syn: rung, round]
v 1: furnich with staves; "stave a ladder"
2: burst or force (a hole) into something [syn: stave in]
[also: stove]
WordNet (r) 2.0
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stove
n 1: a kitchen appliance used for cooking food; "dinner was
already on the stove" [syn: kitchen stove, range, {kitchen
range}, cooking stove]
2: any heating apparatus
WordNet (r) 2.0
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stove
See stave
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
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42 Moby Thesaurus words for "stove":
Seger cone, acid kiln, blast furnace, boiler, bottle-gas stove,
brickkiln, burner, butane stove, calefactor, caliduct, cement kiln,
coal furnace, coal stove, cook stove, cooker, cookery, element,
enamel kiln, furnace, gas jet, gas stove, heater, heating duct,
jet, kiln, kitchener, limekiln, muffle kiln, oven, pilot light,
pyrometer, pyrometric cone, range, reverberatory,
reverberatory kiln, salamander, salamander stove, smelter,
steam pipe, tewel, tuyere, warmer
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