Associations to the word «Stove»

Pictures for the word «Stove»

Wiktionary

STOVE, noun. A heater, a closed apparatus to burn fuel for the warming of a room.
STOVE, noun. A device for heating food, (UK) a cooker.
STOVE, noun. (chiefly UK) A hothouse (in which plants are kept).
STOVE, noun. (dated) A house or room artificially warmed or heated.
STOVE, verb. (transitive) To heat or dry, as in a stove.
STOVE, verb. (transitive) To keep warm, in a house or room, by artificial heat.
STOVE, verb. Simple past tense and past participle of stave

Dictionary definition

STOVE, noun. A kitchen appliance used for cooking food; "dinner was already on the stove".
STOVE, noun. Any heating apparatus.

Wise words

Words are always getting conventionalized to some secondary meaning. It is one of the works of poetry to take the truants in custody and bring them back to their right senses.
William Butler Yeats