stove

¹

[ stohv ]

noun

1. a portable or fixed apparatus that furnishes heat for warmth, cooking, etc., commonly using coal, oil, gas, wood, or electricity as a source of power.
2. a heated chamber or box for some special purpose, as a drying room or a kiln for firing pottery.

verb (used with object)

, stoved, stov·ing.

1. to treat with or subject to heat, as in a stove.

stove

²

[ stohv ]

verb

1. a simple past tense and past participle of stave.

stove

¹

/ stəʊv /

verb

1. a past tense and past participle of stave

stove

²

/ stəʊv /

noun

1. another word for cooker
2. any heating apparatus, such as a kiln

verb

1. to process (ceramics, metalwork, etc) by heating in a stove
2. to stew (meat, vegetables, etc)

Word History and Origins

Origin of stove¹

1425–75; (noun) late Middle English: sweat bath, heated room, probably < Middle Dutch, Middle Low German, cognate with Old English stofa, stofu heated room for bathing, Old High German stuba ( German Stube room; bierstube ), Old Norse stofa; early Germanic borrowing < Vulgar Latin *extupa, *extūpa (> French étuve sweat room of a bath; stew ¹ ), noun derivative of *extūpāre, *extūfāre to fill with vapor, equivalent to Latin ex- ex- ¹ + Vulgar Latin *-tūfāre < Greek tȳ́phein to raise smoke, smoke, akin to tŷphos fever ( typhus ); alternatively explained as a native Germanic base, borrowed into Romance ( izba ); (v.) late Middle English stoven to subject to hot-air bath, derivative of the noun

Word History and Origins

Origin of stove¹

Old English stofa bathroom; related to Old High German stuba steam room, Greek tuphos smoke

Example Sentences

And with the hot stove set to fully heat up over the rest of this month, here are a few takeaways on where the team stands.

From Los Angeles Times

Sunday, most clocks on phones and devices will automatically fall back an hour to 1 a.m., while clocks in cars and on stoves will probably need to be manually adjusted.

From Los Angeles Times

You had a glass syringe with a steel needle that you sent away to get sharpened and you had to boil them up on the stove, and keep them in a flask.

From BBC

It provides thousands of dollars in the form of rebates and tax credits for a consumer to get an EV and electrify their home with solar panels, a heat pump, and an induction stove.

From Salon

I admit to some nerves when I flambé, even though I have never had anything remotely scary occur — no eyebrows singed, no black smoke marks above the stove.

From Salon

Related Words

• boiler
• cooker
• heater
• kiln
• microwave
• oven