Stave vs. Stove

Stavenoun

One of a number of narrow strips of wood, or narrow iron plates, placed edge to edge to form the sides, covering, or lining of a vessel or structure; especially, one of the strips which form the sides of a cask, a pail, etc.

Stavenoun

One of the bars or rounds of a rack, rungs of a ladder, etc; one of the cylindrical bars of a lantern wheel

Stavenoun

(poetry) A metrical portion; a stanza; a staff.

Stavenoun

(music) The five horizontal and parallel lines on and between which musical notes are written or pointed; the staff.

Stavenoun

A staff or walking stick.

Stavenoun

A sign, symbol or sigil, including rune or rune-like characters, used in Icelandic magic.

Staveverb

(transitive) To fit or furnish with staves or rundles.

Staveverb

To break in the staves of; to break a hole in; to burst.

Staveverb

To push, or keep off, as with a staff.

Staveverb

To delay by force or craft; to drive away.

Staveverb

To burst in pieces by striking against something.

Staveverb

To walk or move rapidly.

Staveverb

To suffer, or cause to be lost by breaking the cask.

Staveverb

To render impervious or solid by driving with a calking iron.

Stavenoun

One of a number of narrow strips of wood, or narrow iron plates, placed edge to edge to form the sides, covering, or lining of a vessel or structure; esp., one of the strips which form the sides of a cask, a pail, etc.

Stavenoun

One of the cylindrical bars of a lantern wheel; one of the bars or rounds of a rack, a ladder, etc.

Stavenoun

A metrical portion; a stanza; a staff.

Stavenoun

The five horizontal and parallel lines on and between which musical notes are written or printed; the staff{7}.

Staveverb

To break in a stave or the staves of; to break a hole in; to burst; - often with in; as, to stave a cask; to stave in a boat.

Staveverb

To push, as with a staff; - with off.

Staveverb

To delay by force or craft; to drive away; - usually with off; as, to stave off the execution of a project.

Staveverb

To suffer, or cause, to be lost by breaking the cask.

Staveverb

To furnish with staves or rundles.

Staveverb

To render impervious or solid by driving with a calking iron; as, to stave lead, or the joints of pipes into which lead has been run.

Staveverb

To burst in pieces by striking against something; to dash into fragments.

Stavenoun

(music) the system of five horizontal lines on which the musical notes are written

Stavenoun

one of several thin slats of wood forming the sides of a barrel or bucket

Stavenoun

a crosspiece between the legs of a chair

Staveverb

furnich with staves;

Staveverb

burst or force (a hole) into something

Stovenoun

A heater, a closed apparatus to burn fuel for the warming of a room.

Stovenoun

A device for heating food, (UK) a cooker.

Stovenoun

A hothouse heated greenhouse.

Stovenoun

(dated) A house or room artificially warmed or heated.

Stoveverb

(transitive) To heat or dry, as in a stove.

Stoveverb

(transitive) To keep warm, in a house or room, by artificial heat.

Stove

imp. of Stave.

Stovenoun

A house or room artificially warmed or heated; a forcing house, or hothouse; a drying room; - formerly, designating an artificially warmed dwelling or room, a parlor, or a bathroom, but now restricted, in this sense, to heated houses or rooms used for horticultural purposes or in the processes of the arts.

Stovenoun

An apparatus, consisting essentially of a receptacle for fuel, made of iron, brick, stone, or tiles, and variously constructed, in which fire is made or kept for warming a room or a house, or for culinary or other purposes.

Stovenoun

An appliance having a top surface with fittings suitable for heating pots and pans for cooking, frying, or boiling food, most commonly heated by gas or electricity, and often combined with an oven in a single unit; a cooking stove. Such units commonly have two to six heating surfaces, called burners, even if they are heated by electricity rather than a gas flame.

Stoveverb

To keep warm, in a house or room, by artificial heat; as, to stove orange trees.

Stoveverb

To heat or dry, as in a stove; as, to stove feathers.

Stovenoun

a kitchen appliance used for cooking food;

Stovenoun

any heating apparatus

Stovenoun

an apparatus for cooking or heating that operates by burning fuel or using electricity.

Stovenoun

a hothouse for plants.

Stoveverb

fumigate or disinfect (a house) with sulphur or other fumes.

Stoveverb

treat (an object) by heating it in a stove in order to apply a desired surface coating.

Stoveverb

force or raise (plants) in a hothouse.

Stove

A stove is a device that burns fuel or uses electricity to generate heat inside or on top of the apparatus. It has seen many developments over time and serves the main purpose of cooking food.