stove
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Middle Dutch stove and/or Middle Low German stove (compare Dutch stoof (“foot stove”), German Low German Stuve, Stuuv), both from Proto-West Germanic *stubu (“heated room, bathroom, stove”), further origin uncertain. The Germanic words are very old, and are the source of the Slavic and Romance terms. It is often speculated that the Germanic terms were borrowed from Vulgar Latin *extūfa, *extūfāre (“to heat with steam”), from Latin ex- + *tūfus (“hot vapor”), from Ancient Greek τῦφος (tûphos, “fever”).
Cognates
Cognate with Old English stofa (“bathroom, bathhouse”), stufbæþ (“hot-air bath”), Old High German stuba (“heated room, bathroom”) (whence German Stube (“living room, room, parlour”), Hungarian szoba (“room”)), Old Norse stofa (whence Danish stue (“living room, room”), Faroese stova (“living room, house”), Icelandic stofa (“living room”), Norwegian Bokmål stue (“cottage, cabin, living room”), Norwegian Nynorsk stove (“cottage, cabin, living room”), Swedish stuga (“cottage, cabin, living room”)).
Doublet of stufa.
Inflected forms:
form: stoves
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: stoves
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: stoving
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: stoved
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: stoved
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: A heater, a closed apparatus to burn fuel for the warming of a room.
pos: noun
examples: 1815 Robertson Buchanan, Appendix to A Treatise on the Economy of Fuel, and Management of Heat, Especially as it Relates to Heating and Drying by Means of Steam. p. 309.
[I]n the countries of modern Europe, the use of stoves prevail throughout the north; while in France and Great Britain, open fires are used. In the warm countries of Italy and Spain, there are very few chimneys, and the only method usually practised of tempering the cold... is to burn charcoal in portable brasiers.
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.
gloss: A device for heating food, (UK) a cooker.
pos: noun
gloss: A stovetop, with hotplates.
pos: noun
gloss: A hothouse (heated greenhouse).
pos: noun
tags: UK
examples: There existed only one specimen of this sacred tree in all Mexico, at least to the knowledge of the Mexicans; […] In spite, however, of the firmest convictions of the indivisibility of this tree — the Manitas, as it is commonly called — it has been propagated by cuttings, some of which are at this moment thriving in some of the larger stoves of our modern collectors.
Let but these facts lie contrasted with the treatment they usually receive in the stoves of this country, and the reason why they never grow to any considerable size, attain to any degree of perfection, or flourish to any extent […]
gloss: A house or room artificially warmed or heated.
pos: noun
tags: dated
examples: April 1, 1634, Thomas Wentworth, 1st Earl of Strafford, letter to the Lord Deputy
When most of the waiters were commanded away to their supper, the Parlour or Stove being near emptied, in came a Company of Musketeers.
How tedious is it to them that live in stoves and caves half a year together, as in Iceland, Muscovy, or under the pole!
gloss: To heat or dry, as in a stove.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: to stove feathers
The wide use of amine-cured epoxy paints is mostly due to their providing many of the properties of stoved epoxy films from an ambient temperature-cured system.
gloss: To keep warm, in a house or room, by artificial heat.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: to stove orange trees
orange-trees , lemon-trees , and myrtles , if they be stoved
gloss: To jam; to sprain.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: to stove a finger
Derived words: air stove
camping stove
campstove
camp stove
cocklestove
cookstove
dry stove
everything but the galley stove
foot stove
Franklin stove
halogen stove
hexamine stove
hexi stove
hexy stove
hobo stove
hot-air stove
hot stove
hot stove league
induction stove
laundry stove
magazine stove
monkey stove
oil stove
oilstove
pellet stove
portable stove
potbellied stove
potbelly stove
Primus stove
Russian stove
Soyer stove
stove enamel
stove fitter
stoveful
stovehouse
stoveless
stovelike
stovemaker
stovemaking
stovepipe
stove polish
stoveside
stove-top
stoveware
stovewood
tile stove
woodstove
stove up
unstoved
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