Stove

What do we mean by stove?

An apparatus in which electricity or a fuel is used to furnish heat, as for cooking or warmth. noun

A device that produces heat for specialized, especially industrial, purposes. noun

A kiln. noun

A hothouse. noun

A chamber in which hides are dehaired. noun

A stove having a tank or reservoir for hot water. noun

Preterit and past participle of stave.

To heat in a stove or heated room; expose to moderate heat in a vessel.

To heat in or as in a stove: as, to stove feathers; to stove printed fabrics (to fix the color); to stove ropes (to make them pliable); to stove timber.

In vinegar-manuf., to expose (malt-wash, etc.) in casks to artificial heat in a close room, in order to induce acetous fermentation.

In ceramics, to expose to a low heat. See pottery, porcelain, and kiln.

To cook in a close vessel; stew.

To shut up, as in a stove; inclose; confine.

In wool-bleaching, to expose (woolen yarn or cloth) in a dampened condition to the fumes of burning sulphur, and hence to the action of sulphurous acid, in a closed, usually wooden, building. The same treatment is sometimes applied to silk.

A room, chamber, or house artificially warmed. Obsolete except in the specific uses , , below. noun

Specifically— In horticulture, a glazed and artificially heated building for the culture of tender plants: the same as a greenhouse or hot house, except that the stove maintains a higher temperature—not lower than 60° F. See greenhouse, hothouse, and dry-stove. noun

A drying-chamber, as for plants, extracts, conserves, etc.; also, a highly heated drying-room, used in various manufactures. noun

A place for taking either liquid or vapor baths; a bath-house or bath-room. noun

A heater, a closed apparatus to burn fuel for the warming of a room.

A device for heating food, (UK) a cooker.

A hothouse (heated greenhouse).

A house or room artificially warmed or heated.

Words that are spelled similarly to stove:
stove, stone, store, stave, stoke, shove, stole, stope, steve, strove, stote, stowe, stome, stive, tove, stoae, stovl, scove, sove, slove.

Words that are triggered by (strongly associated with) the word stove:
cooker, burner, pellet, oven, refrigerator, flue, sauna, fireplace, heater, recess, propane, firewood, kerosene, chimney, cooking, appliance, pellets, utensils, primus, pans, heating, combustion, charcoal, kitchen, pots, sink, pot, microwave, biomass, baking, furnace, masonry, heated, foundry, cooked, pipe, boiling, smoke, tent, bathroom, heat, fuel, hut, burn, pipes, portable, compartment, chairs, enclosed, burning, cook, lit, flame, lamp, cabin, exhaust, camping, burns, dish, wood, meal, meals, warm, efficient, dining, sleeping, gas, invented, burned, manufactured, room, tea, invention, hot, clothes, coal, fires, explosion, lighting, factory, electric, furniture, pan, manufacturer, wooden, fire, cool, franklin, iron, door, lights, carbon, meat, timber, bed, alcohol, electricity, designs, installed, clay.

Words that rhyme with stove:
trove, dove, cove, grove, alcove, clove, drove, rove, mangrove, hove, wove, shrove, tov, strove, throve, soave, gove, nov, treasure trove, bove, dowve, howve, black mangrove, hargrove, seagrove, white mangrove, snelgrove, wingrove, hardgrove, button mangrove, boeve, hartgrove, colegrove, cazenove, labauve, lovegrove, snellgrove, yaacov.

Adjectives that are often used to describe stove:
hot, small, little, old, burning, electric, big, large, iron, potbellied, bellied, black, warm, burner, portable, huge, cooking, porcelain, tiny, cold, tiled, rusty, gas, open, fashioned, russian, tight, round, ordinary, red, ancient, glowing, heated, wood, tall, enormous, coal, airtight, fired, improved, jacketed, dutch, green, foot, efficient, top, earthen, lighted, ceramic, empty, primitive, closed, makeshift, broken, nice, polished, wooden, overheated, antique, immense, smoky, outdoor, cylindrical, the, primus, miniature, massive, dirty, nearest, sized.

Nouns that are often described by the adjective stove:
pipe, top, species, plants, polish, bolt, molders, makers, tiles.

Consonant match to stove:
stave, steve, steeve, stive, stieve, stueve, stuve.

Words that sound like stove:
stove, steve, stave, stive, steeve, stev, stiv, stueve, stow, sto, stover, strove, stowe, stoves, sove, soave, stoa, stof, stoved, stai, stewy, stay, save, sting, staff, stew, stitch, stiff, starve, steph, sieve, stich, stevie, sive, sta, stong, stoke, salve, siv, sav, stang, stef, stee, sti, stowed, stoat, civ, stach, sev, steff, staph, stoy, sauve, steo, staf, stif, staves, stea, staw, steves, stie, stau, stav, cive, sdo, sov, staved, stio, stoff, stows, steve o, stiver, stough, stey, stever, stote, steeves, seave, stos, stauch, stower, stief, stoak, sative, psta, staa, c.v, stives, staver, cev, steif, stived, sciv, staaf, esteve, sterve, estive, sdv, stii, steaua.