stove 
stove (stōv)
noun
- an apparatus using fuel or electricity for heating a room, for cooking, etc.
- any heated chamber or room, as a kiln for drying manufactured articles
Etymology: ME < MDu, heated room, akin to Ger stube, sitting room, OE stofa, hot air bath < early borrowing < VL *extufa, back-form. < *extufare, to steam, stew
stove (stōv)
transitive verb, intransitive verb
stove
n.
Varieties of stoves include: cooking, heating, circulating, potbellied, Franklin, Norwegian, airtight, galvanized-iron, cast-iron, tile, wood, coal, oil, gas, gasjet, electric, infrared, microwave, high frequency, low frequency, atomic, portable, camp, car, tinmen's, Nuremberg; range, baseburner, kiln;
Converse of object
- woodburning: Amenities Full oil central heating, woodburning stove in sitting area.
Adjective modifier
- pot-bellied: His classes have been conducted in a very old shed with sagging roof and pot-bellied stove.
- oil-fired: As you step in you will be immediately aware of the oil-fired range stove on the left.
- wood-fired: ORIGINAL HOT TUB COMPANY Supplies outdoor hot tubs made from red cedar and redwood heated by wood-fired stoves for DIY installation.
- cast-iron: Its disappearance coincides with that of great hearths, which were replaced by cast-iron stoves.
- wood-burner: Large, comfortable living room with exposed stonework, oriental rugs, wood-burner style gas stove, comfortable seating including a double sofa bed.
- woodburning: Some have woodburning stoves, all have amazing views.
Preposition: on
- hearth: Brick fireplace with cast iron log burning stove on a brick hearth.
Modifies a noun
- Inc.: Fuel, power and a starter pack of fuel for the multi-fuel stove inc. in rent.
- enamel: The blades are precision machine ground and the assembly is finished with an attractive blue stove enamel.
- burner: Alcohol spilled on an electric stove burner may explode.
Preposition: in
- fireplace: The cottage had no heating apart from a wood burning stove in the inglenook fireplace in the living room.
- lounge: With these options we decided to install a diesel Bubbles stove in the lounge.
Preposition: with
- back-boiler: A stove with a back-boiler to heat water and perhaps supply radiators could be all you need in a small home.
Noun used with modifier
- woodburning: You can see the flames in the woodburning stove from the double bed.
- burning: The wood burning stove will be kept in situ.
- wood-burning: The sitting room with focal feature of a wood-burning stove.
- multi-fuel: Open plan living area with fitted kitchen, dining area and sitting area with multi-fuel stove and mountain views.
- multifuel: Heating - The Kitchen is heated by a Multifuel stove, which also heats the water.
- wood: The wood burning stove will be kept in situ.
Like a piece of ice on a hot stove the poem must ride on its ownmelting. A poemmay be worked overonce it isin being, but may not be worried into being.
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