stove
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Danh từ
noun- 1.
A heater, a closed apparatus to burn fuel for the warming of a room.
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.
- 2.
A device for heating food, (UK) a cooker.
- 3.
A stovetop, with hotplates.
- 4.
(UK)(chiefly UK) A hothouse (heated greenhouse).
- 5.
(dated)A house or room artificially warmed or heated.
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.
Động từ
verb- 1.
(transitive)To heat or dry, as in a stove.
to stove feathers
- 2.
(transitive)To keep warm, in a house or room, by artificial heat.
to stove orange trees
- 3.
(transitive)To jam; to sprain.
to stove a finger
- 4.
(form of, participle, past)simple past and past participle of stave
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From Middle Dutch stove and/or stove (compare stoof foot stove, Stuve, Stuuv), both from *stubu (heated room, bathroom, stove), further origin uncertain. The Germanic words are very old, and are the source of the Slavic and Romance terms.