stove

A device with hot surfaces or flames that you use to cook food.

• The soup is on the stove.
• Turn off the stove when you finish cooking.
• We bought a new electric stove for the kitchen.

Similar words: cooker, range

Common phrases: gas stove, electric stove, on the stove

A closed device that burns fuel to warm a room.

• The stove keeps us warm.
• She put another log in the stove.
• These coal stoves heated the whole house.

Similar words: heater

Common phrases: wood stove, coal stove

A device that burns wood or other fuel to heat a room.

• The stove kept the room warm.
• He added more logs to the stove.
• We sat beside the coal stove all evening.

Similar words: heater

Common phrases: wood stove, coal stove, light the stove

To heat or dry something in a heated space.

• The workers stove the feathers to dry them.
• They stoved the damp material overnight.
• The factory once used heated rooms to stove its products.

Similar words: heat, dry

Common phrases: stove feathers, stove the material

To keep plants or other things warm inside a heated building.

• Gardeners stove these trees through winter.
• They stoved their orange trees in a heated house.
• The tender plants must be stoved when frost arrives.

Similar words: keep warm

Common phrases: stove orange trees, stove tender plants