STOVE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does stove mean? 

• STOVE (noun)
  The noun STOVE has 2 senses:

1. a kitchen appliance used for cooking food

2. any heating apparatus

  Familiarity information: STOVE used as a noun is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• STOVE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A kitchen appliance used for cooking food

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Synonyms:

cooking stove; kitchen range; kitchen stove; range; stove

Context example:

dinner was already on the stove

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

kitchen appliance (a home appliance used in preparing food)

Meronyms (parts of "stove"):

grate; grating (a frame of iron bars to hold a fire)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "stove"):

charcoal burner (a stove that burns charcoal as fuel)

cookstove (a stove for cooking (especially a wood- or coal-burning kitchen stove))

electric range (a kitchen range in which the heat for cooking is provided by electric power)

gas cooker; gas range; gas stove (a range with gas rings and an oven for cooking with gas)

potbelly; potbelly stove (a bulbous stove in which wood or coal is burned)

Primus; Primus stove (a portable paraffin cooking stove; used by campers)

spirit stove (a stove that burns a volatile liquid fuel such as alcohol)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Any heating apparatus

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

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

heater; warmer (device that heats water or supplies warmth to a room)

 Context examples 

The fifth servant, however, crept into the stove to hear if the doctor knew still more.

(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)

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

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

But the floor still shrieked the tragedy, until Hans planed the surface of the stained wood away and with the shavings made a fire in the stove.

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

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)

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)

CO is found in combustion fumes, such as those made by cars and trucks, lanterns, stoves, gas ranges and heating systems.

(Carbon Monoxide Poisoning, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention)

One edition of jelly was trickled from pot to pot, another lay upon the floor, and a third was burning gaily on the stove.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

Don't leave the stove or oven unattended when they are on.

(Fire Safety, NIH)

As soon as he showed signs of life we wrapped him up in blankets and placed him near the chimney of the kitchen stove.

(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)

Then he discovered him, standing where he had been lying, near to the stove.

(White Fang, by Jack London)