STAVE (stove)

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IPA (US):

Irregular inflected form: stove   

 Dictionary entry overview: What does stave mean? 

• STAVE (noun)
  The noun STAVE has 3 senses:

1. (music) the system of five horizontal lines on which the musical notes are written

2. one of several thin slats of wood forming the sides of a barrel or bucket

3. a crosspiece between the legs of a chair

  Familiarity information: STAVE used as a noun is uncommon.

• STAVE (verb)
  The verb STAVE has 2 senses:

1. furnish with staves

2. burst or force (a hole) into something

  Familiarity information: STAVE used as a verb is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• STAVE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

(music) the system of five horizontal lines on which the musical notes are written

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Synonyms:

staff; stave

Hypernyms ("stave" is a kind of...):

musical notation ((music) notation used by musicians)

Meronyms (parts of "stave"):

staff line (any of the 5 horizontal marks comprising a staff)

space (one of the areas between or below or above the lines of a musical staff)

Domain category:

music (an artistic form of auditory communication incorporating instrumental or vocal tones in a structured and continuous manner)

Sense 2

Meaning:

One of several thin slats of wood forming the sides of a barrel or bucket

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Synonyms:

lag; stave

Hypernyms ("stave" is a kind of...):

slat; spline (a thin strip (wood or metal))

Holonyms ("stave" is a part of...):

barrel; cask (a cylindrical container that holds liquids)

Sense 3

Meaning:

A crosspiece between the legs of a chair

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Synonyms:

round; rung; stave

Hypernyms ("stave" is a kind of...):

crosspiece (a transverse brace)

Holonyms ("stave" is a part of...):

folding chair (a chair that can be folded flat for storage)

feeding chair; highchair (a chair for feeding a very young child; has four long legs and a footrest and a detachable tray)

rocker; rocking chair (a chair mounted on rockers)

side chair; straight chair (a straight-backed chair without arms)

Derivation:

stave (furnish with staves)

• STAVE (verb)

Present simple: I / you / we / they stave    ... he / she / it staves   
Past simple: staved    / stove   
Past participle: staved    / stove   
-ing form: staving   

Sense 1

Meaning:

Furnish with staves

Classified under:

Verbs of buying, selling, owning

Context example:

stave a ladder

Hypernyms (to "stave" is one way to...):

equip; fit; fit out; outfit (provide with (something) usually for a specific purpose)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s something

Derivation:

stave (a crosspiece between the legs of a chair)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Burst or force (a hole) into something

Classified under:

Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.

Synonyms:

stave; stave in

Hypernyms (to "stave" is one way to...):

break open; burst; split (come open suddenly and violently, as if from internal pressure)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s something

 Context examples 

Put that steel head-piece on the end of my yew-stave.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

In the cabin he lay on the floor near the stove, without interest in food, in Matt, nor in life.

(White Fang, by Jack London)

Before an hour's out, I'll stove in your old block house like a rum puncheon.

(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)

Functional Activities Questionnaire-NACC Version (FAQ-NACC Version) Heating water, making a cup of coffee, turning off stove after use.

(FAQ-NACC Version - Heat water, Make Coffee, Turn Off Stove, NCI Thesaurus)

I glanced warily at him, for I was on my knees taking the ashes from the stove.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

While waiting for the water to boil, he held his face over the stove.

(Love of Life and Other Stories, by Jack London)

Then the fellow in the stove thought that the doctor meant him, and full of terror, sprang out, crying: “That man knows everything!”

(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)

Similar lists were on the wall over the oil-stove, and they were similarly conned while he was engaged in cooking or in washing the dishes.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

Functional Activities Questionnaire (FAQ) Heating water, making a cup of coffee, turning off stove after use.

(FAQ - Heat water, Make Coffee, Turn Off Stove, NCI Thesaurus)

Then I tied the bodies into the boat, stove a plank, and stood by until they had sunk.

(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)