# stove

Pronunciation: say "STOHV" /stəʊv/

## Noun

1. A kitchen appliance used for cooking or heating food.
   - Simple: A kitchen appliance used to cook or heat food.
   - _He left a pan simmering on the stove while he chopped vegetables._
   - _Modern stoves often combine electric burners with a built-in oven._
2. The upper cooking surface of a kitchen appliance, fitted with hotplates or burners.
   - Simple: The flat top part of a kitchen appliance where pots and pans are heated.
   - _He set the skillet on the stove and turned up the heat under it._
   - _Spilled milk crusted onto the stove between the burners._
3. A closed apparatus that burns fuel to heat a room.
   - Simple: A closed metal box that burns wood or coal to warm a room.
   - _They huddled around the stove as snow piled against the cabin door._
   - _He fed another log into the stove to keep the room warm._
5. A heated greenhouse for growing plants that require warmth. *(UK)*
   - Simple: A heated glass building used to grow plants that need warmth.
   - _The head gardener tended rare ferns in the stove behind the manor._
   - _Exotic fruits ripened in the stove long after the first frosts._

## Verb

4. To heat or dry something in or as if in a stove.
   - Simple: To heat or dry something using an enclosed heater.
   - _Potters stove their wares to drive off the last moisture._
   - _The workshop stoves freshly cast parts before painting them._
6. To keep a house or room warm by artificial heat.
   - Simple: To keep a room or building warm using heat.
   - _The staff stove the upper rooms whenever guests stayed over._
   - _Caretakers stove the chapel before each Sunday service._
7. Simple past and past participle of stave. — simple past and past participle of stave
   - Simple: Simple past and past participle of stave. Use this form when talking about the past.
   - _The storm stove in several planks along the ship's side._
   - _Years of waves had stove in the abandoned dinghy._
8. To injure by jamming or spraining, as a finger or toe.
   - Simple: To hurt a finger or toe by jamming it hard.
   - _Basketball players frequently stove their fingers blocking shots._
   - _He tends to stove a toe whenever he walks barefoot._

## Noun

9. A house or room warmed by artificial heat. *(dated)*
   - Simple: A room or building kept warm by heating.
   - _Guests gathered in the stove to escape the bitter cold outside._
   - _Each winter the family sealed the windows and lived mostly in the stove._

## Origin

From Middle Dutch stove and/or Middle Low German stove, both going back to Proto-Germanic *stubō ("room, living room, heated room"), with further origin uncertain. It is related to Old English stofa ("bathhouse") and Old High German stuba, and some speculate the Germanic words were borrowed from Vulgar Latin *extūfa ("to heat with steam").

Source: DictionaryAI, https://dictionaryai.com/define/stove (written from Wiktionary data, CC BY-SA 4.0: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/).