stove meaning
EN[stəʊv] [stoʊv] [-əʊv]US
WStove
- A stove is an enclosed space in which fuel is burned to provide heating, either to heat the space in which the stove is situated, or to heat the stove itself and items placed on it.
- NounPLstoves
- A heater, a closed apparatus to burn fuel for the warming of a room.
- We toted in the wood and got the fire going nice and comfortable. Lord James still set in one of the chairs and Applegate had cabbaged the other and was hugging the stove.
- A device for heating food, (UK) a cooker.
- (chiefly Britain) A hothouse (heated greenhouse).
- (dated) A house or room artificially warmed or heated.
- A heater, a closed apparatus to burn fuel for the warming of a room.
- VerbSGstovesPRstovingPT, PPstoved
- (transitive) To heat or dry, as in a stove.
- to stove feathers
- (transitive) To keep warm, in a house or room, by artificial heat.
- to stove orange trees
- simple past tense and past participle of stave.
- (transitive) To heat or dry, as in a stove.
- More Examples
- Used in the Middle of Sentence
- The water was soon slushing merrily over the deck, while the smoke pouring from the cabin stove carried a promise of good things to come.
- Used in the Ending of Sentence
- We toted in the wood and got the fire going nice and comfortable. Lord James still set in one of the chairs and Applegate had cabbaged the other and was hugging the stove.
- Used in the Middle of Sentence
Definition of stove in English Dictionary
- Part-of-Speech Hierarchy
- Nouns
- Countable nouns
- Countable nouns
- Verbs
- Verb forms
- Participles
- Past participles
- Past participles
- Verb simple past forms
- Participles
- Transitive verbs
- Verb forms
- Nouns
Source: Wiktionary