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UK
/stˈəʊv/
]
[ US /ˈstoʊv/ ]
[ US /ˈstoʊv/ ]
NOUN
- any heating apparatus
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a kitchen appliance used for cooking food
dinner was already on the stove
How To Use stove In A Sentence
- Nowadays she heats her place with a cast-iron stove perched on firebricks in the living room, cooks with propane, and does her beadwork at night by the light of a kerosene lamp while listening to a battery-operated radio.
- Following the sound, Silk found himself among the sellers he sought Hobbled deer reared and plunged, their soft brown eyes wild with fright; a huge snake lifted its flat, malevolent head, hissing like a kettle on the stove; live salmon gasped and splashed in murky, glass-fronted tanks; pigs grunted, lambs baaed, chickens squawked, and milling goats eyed passersby with curiosity and sharp suspicion. Nightside The Long Sun
- We have a big stove which radiates heat day and night.
- The Meal Maker Belgian waffle baker and sandwich griddle is a big stand-in for à full stovetop.
- I quickly drew my hand away from the hot stove.
- It took me two days to do three "simple" jobs ... installing a shutoff valve behind a gas stove, replacing/fixing a tub faucet stem, and capping a sump pump. Projects You Shouldn’t Try To DIY | Lifehacker Australia
- The front of the ship was stove in where it had hit the rock.
- - A small backpacker stove, fuel and cookpot (and spoon!) - Clothing suitable for wet, windy or cold weather Parry thrust parry
- I found myself in a salon with a very well-painted, highly varnished floor; chairs and sofas covered with white draperies, a green porcelain stove, walls hung with pictures in gilt frames, a gilt pendule and other ornaments on the mantelpiece, a large lustre pendent from the centre of the ceiling, mirrors, consoles, muslin curtains, and a handsome centre table completed the inventory of furniture. The Professor, by Charlotte Bronte
- The stube, or stove, of a German inn, derived its name from the great hypocaust, which is always strongly heated to secure the warmth of the apartment in which it is placed. Anne of Geierstein