Found 9 hits - Term: stove, Database: *, Strategy: exact
- [1] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
hydrocarbon \hy`drocar"bon\, n. hydro-, 2 + carbon. chem.
a compound containing only hydrogen and carbon, as methane,
benzene, etc.; also, by extension, any of their derivatives.
1913 webster
hydrocarbon burner, furnace, stove, a burner, furnace,
or stove with which liquid fuel, as petroleum, is used.
1913 webster
see also:
hydrocarbon burner furnace stove
- [2] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
stave \stave\, v. t. imp. p. p. staved st=avd or
stove st=ov; 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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see also:
staved stove staving stave staff to stave and tail
- [3] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
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.
1913 webster
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.
pjc
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.
1913 webster
see also:
estufa stew stufa cooking stove cooking stove dry stove
dry foot stove foot franklin stove stove plant
stove plate
- [4] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
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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see also:
stoved stoving
- [5] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
stove \stove\ st=ov,
imp. of stave.
1913 webster
see also:
stave
- [6] : WordNet (r) 2.0
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
see also:
staff lag rung round stave in stove
- [7] : WordNet (r) 2.0
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
see also:
kitchen stove range kitchen range cooking stove
- [8] : WordNet (r) 2.0
stove
see stave
see also:
stave
- [9] : Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
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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Stove, definition of term: Stove
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