From Longman Dictionary of Contemporary Englishstovestove1 /stəʊv $ stoʊv/ ●●○ noun [countable] 1 DFUa piece of kitchen equipment on which you cook food in pots and pans, and that contains an oven SYN cooker British Englishon the stove a pot of soup simmering on the stove2 DHDFUa thing used for heating a room or for cooking, which works by burning wood, coal, oil, or gas a wood-burning stove
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stove• Ingeniously designed, the main cabin contained a stove, a curtained bed and cupboards whose painted doors let down into tables.• a camp stove• This is clearly illustrated by the example of a person touching a hot stove.• One old petrol stove clogged up and failed to work at all.• Some stoves are now designed to run on unleaded petrol.• Then I put in a little water on the bottom, and put it back on the stove to soften.• Put a small skillet on the stove.• Several kettles were on the stove, simmering.on the stove• Then I put in a little water on the bottom, and put it back on the stove to soften.• The glue-pot was cold on the stove.• Heats the iron on the stove.• Place the cooking liquid from the mushrooms on the stove, add the white wine and bring to the boil.• There was a pot on the stove, a casserole in the oven, and a note on the counter.• Mostly it was hot chocolate she made, warming the milk in a saucepan on the stove before mixing it.• She smiles, pours herself another coffee from the jug simmering on the stove.• Several kettles were on the stove, simmering.stovestove2 x-refa past tense and past participle of stave2Origin stove1 (1400-1500) Middle Dutch Middle Low German, “heated room”, from Vulgar Latin extufa, from Greek typhein “to smoke” 