Meaning of "stove" in the English dictionary

ETYMOLOGY OF THE WORD STOVE

Old English stofa bathroom; related to Old High German stuba steam room, Greek tuphos smoke.

Etymology is the study of the origin of words and their changes in structure and significance.

PRONUNCIATION OF STOVE

stove  [stəʊv]

GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF STOVE

Stove is a verb and can also act as a noun.

A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

The verb is the part of the sentence that is conjugated and expresses action and state of being.

See the conjugation of the verb stove in English.

WHAT DOES STOVE MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Stove

A stove is an enclosed space in which fuel is burned to provide heating, either to heat the space in which the stove is situated, or to heat the stove itself and items placed on it. This article is principally concerned with enclosed stoves burning solid fuels for room heating.

Definition of stove in the English dictionary

The first definition of stove in the dictionary is any heating apparatus, such as a kiln. Other definition of stove is to process by heating in a stove. Stove is also to stew.

CONJUGATION OF THE VERB TO STOVE

PRESENT

Present

I stave

you stave

he/she/it staves

we stave

you stave

they stave

Present continuous

I am staving

you are staving

he/she/it is staving

we are staving

you are staving

they are staving

Present perfect

I have stove

you have stove

he/she/it has stove

we have stove

you have stove

they have stove

Present perfect continuous

I have been staving

you have been staving

he/she/it has been staving

we have been staving

you have been staving

they have been staving

Present tense is used to refer to circumstances that exist at the present time or over a period that includes the present time. The present perfect refers to past events, although it can be considered to denote primarily the resulting present situation rather than the events themselves.

PAST

Past

I stove

you stove

he/she/it stove

we stove

you stove

they stove

Past continuous

I was staving

you were staving

he/she/it was staving

we were staving

you were staving

they were staving

Past perfect

I had stove

you had stove

he/she/it had stove

we had stove

you had stove

they had stove

Past perfect continuous

I had been staving

you had been staving

he/she/it had been staving

we had been staving

you had been staving

they had been staving

Past tense forms express circumstances existing at some time in the past,

FUTURE

Future

I will stave

you will stave

he/she/it will stave

we will stave

you will stave

they will stave

Future continuous

I will be staving

you will be staving

he/she/it will be staving

we will be staving

you will be staving

they will be staving

Future perfect

I will have stove

you will have stove

he/she/it will have stove

we will have stove

you will have stove

they will have stove

Future perfect continuous

I will have been staving

you will have been staving

he/she/it will have been staving

we will have been staving

you will have been staving

they will have been staving

The future is used to express circumstances that will occur at a later time.

CONDITIONAL

Conditional

I would stove

you would stove

he/she/it would stove

we would stove

you would stove

they would stove

Conditional continuous

I would be staving

you would be staving

he/she/it would be staving

we would be staving

you would be staving

they would be staving

Conditional perfect

I would have stove

you would have stove

he/she/it would have stove

we would have stove

you would have stove

they would have stove

Conditional perfect continuous

I would have been staving

you would have been staving

he/she/it would have been staving

we would have been staving

you would have been staving

they would have been staving

Conditional or "future-in-the-past" tense refers to hypothetical or possible actions.

IMPERATIVE

Imperative

you stave
we let´s stave
you stave

The imperative is used to form commands or requests.

NONFINITE VERB FORMS

Infinitive

to stave

Past participle

stove

Present Participle

staving

Infinitive shows the action beyond temporal perspective. The present participle or gerund shows the action during the session. The past participle shows the action after completion.

SYNONYMS OF «STOVE»

The following words have a similar or identical meaning as «stove» and belong to the same grammatical category.

synonyms of stove

burner · cooker · hob · oven · range

TRANSLATION OF STOVE

Find out the translation of stove to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.

The translations of stove from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «stove» in English.

• Translator English - Chinese: 炉子
• Translator English - Spanish: hornilla
• English: stove
• Translator English - Hindi: स्टोव
• Translator English - Arabic: مَوْقِد
• Translator English - Russian: кухонная плита
• Translator English - Portuguese: fogão
• Translator English - Bengali: চুলা
• Translator English - French: poêle
• Translator English - Malay: Dapur
• Translator English - German: Ofen
• Translator English - Japanese: 料理用レンジ
• Translator English - Korean: 스토브
• Translator English - Javanese: Kompor
• Translator English - Vietnamese: bếp
• Translator English - Tamil: அடுப்பு
• Translator English - Marathi: स्टोव्ह
• Translator English - Turkish: soba, fırın, ocak
• Translator English - Italian: stufa
• Translator English - Polish: piecyk
• Translator English - Ukrainian: пічка
• Translator English - Romanian: sobă
• Translator English - Greek: σόμπα
• Translator English - Afrikaans: stoof
• Translator English - Swedish: spis
• Translator English - Norwegian: komfyr

10 QUOTES WITH «STOVE»

Famous quotes and sentences with the word stove.

1

Regina Brett

Cooking involves a deadline and hungry people and ingredients that expire in a week. It's stressful. Cooking happens on the stove and on the clock. Baking happens with ingredients that last for months and come to life inside a warm oven. Baking is slow and leisurely.

2

Tony Curtis

They gave me away as a prize once - a Win Tony Curtis For A Weekend competition. The woman who won was disappointed. She'd hoped for second prize - a new stove.

3

Tom Douglas

In the restaurant business, there's the concept of pivot. Pivot to the stove, pivot to the refrigerator.

4

Dorothy Canfield Fisher

She was scrubbing furiously at a line of grease spots which led from the stove towards the door to the dining-room. That was where Henry had held the platter tilted as he carried the steak in yesterday. And yet if she had warned him once about that, she had a thousand times!

5

Bobby Flay

A grill is just a source of heat. Just like a stove, it is very user-friendly.

6

Tyler Florence

First and foremost I am a chef, whether behind the stove at one of my Northern California restaurants or for the past 15 years in front of the camera on my Food Network cooking shows. Creating new dishes and flavor combinations that bring cooks and our restaurant guests pleasure is my job and I love it.

7

Alexandra Guarnaschelli

I bent my head over a stove in my early 20s and picked it up in my 30s.

8

Debi Mazar

Basically, I start my morning off with a Bustelo coffee made in a mocha pot - the Bialetti. I warm some milk on the side, on my stove, and I add one teaspoon or half a teaspoon of real sugar. I have two of these every morning. Even when I was pregnant.

9

Debi Mazar

Food brings back memories. I had a mom that wasn't a good cook, so I would eat my grandma's food. It was amazing because it brings back a time almost in Technicolor. I see her house, I see her stove; I think about what it felt like when I was sick, and it felt like love.

10

Roy Orbison

I've really learned a lot, really learned a lot, love is like a stove, burns you when it's hot.

10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «STOVE»

Discover the use of stove in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to stove and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.

Kids Cooking Without a Stove: A Cookbook for Young Children

Easy-to-follow recipes for desserts, drinks, salads, sandwiches, snacks, and candies that require no cooking.

Aileen Paul, 2005

The $50,000 Stove Handle and Other Perils of Home Improvements

Gordon Pape's family's tribulations – a shower that won't stop leaking, a wine cellar that smells like a paint factory, and a stove handle that ended up costing more than $50,000 – will keep readers chuckling from start to finish.

Gordon Pape, 1996

Stand Facing the Stove: The Story of the Women Who Gave ...

Mendelson weaves together three fascinating stories: the affectionate though often difficult relationship between Joy's original creator, Irma, and her eventual coauthor, Marion; the bitter dealings between the Rombauers and their publisher ...

Anne Mendelson, 2007

César Franck: His Life and Times

This book draws on numerous sources never before cited in English, painting a picture of a great musician and deeply loved man, whose influence in both his native and adopted lands was exceptional.

Robert James Stove, 2012

On Enlightenment

This was a task for which Stove believed philosophy to be especially well suited. For example, see David Stove, “Why Have Philosophers?,” Cricket versus Republicanism, Sydney: Quakers Hill Press, 1995, pp. 63-65. Peter Coleman, 1 1  ...

David Stove, Andrew Irvine, 2013

Hot Stove Economics: Understanding Baseball's Second Season

The final out of the World Series marks the beginning of baseball's second season, when teams court free agents and orchestrate trades with the hope of building a championship contender.

J.C. Bradbury, 2010

Against the Idols of the Age

"--The Review of Metaphysics "A self-proclaimed neo-positivist-and a brilliant, truculent, cantankerous essayist-Stove attacks everything from contemporary philosophy of science and evolutionary theory to religious belief and intellectual ...

David C. Stove, Roger Kimball

Romancing the Stove: Celebrated Recipes and Delicious Fun ...

Recipes blending attitude, sensuality, and appetite for life include fare for picnics, holiday feasts, and intimate snacking.

Margie Lapanja, 2003

The Nurnberg Stove

An exhilarating masterpiece for children, it originally appeared in 1916. Ouida has narrated the story of belief and loyalty. His style is both entertaining as well as captivating for the juveniles. Guaranteed to appeal to young readers!

Ouida, 2006

Scientific Irrationalism: Origins of a Postmodern Cult

In Scientific Irrationalism, now available in paperback, David Stove demonstrates how extravagant has been the verbiage wasted on this issue and how irrational the combatants have been.

David C. Stove, 2006

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «STOVE»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term stove is used in the context of the following news items.

Ikea has created the kitchen of 2025 - and there's no stove or …

The Concept Kitchen 2025, a pop-up exhibit featured at EXPO Milano 2015, isn't about your kitchen and its appliances doing all the work for you; it's about ... «Business Insider, Jul 15»

Baby sitter charged with burning girl on stove faces new counts after …

A Connecticut nanny already charged with beating and burning a 3-year-old girl on a stove now faces 15 more counts after police reviewed more video from a ... «Fox News, Jun 15»

4-star WR Stove commits to Auburn

Four-star receiver Eli Stove of Niceville (Fla.), a major Auburn target and a big piece of the offensive recruiting puzzle for 2016, has committed to the Tigers. «auburn.247sports.com, May 15»

Nanny Accused Of Burning Child On Stove

Nanny Accused Of Burning Child On Stove. Lidia Quilligana was caught on a hidden 'nanny cam' allegedly force-feeding the child and physically abusing her. «Sky News, Apr 15»

Nanny cam records child being burned on stove, beaten: police

DANBURY, Conn. (PIX11/AP) — Police say video from a nanny cam shows a baby sitter beating a 3-year-old Connecticut girl and burning her on a hot stove. «New York's PIX11 / WPIX-TV, Apr 15»

Meld Smart Stove Knob Stops Your Food From Burning

How many times have you put something on the stove only to get distracted by the TV, your kids, or your Facebook feed? Before you know it, whatever you were ... «PC Magazine, Apr 15»

Remains of pregnant TV show contestant found in wood stove

ASHEVILLE, N.C. — Human remains were found inside a wood stove at the North Carolina home of a man charged with killing a contestant from the TV show ... «fox8.com, Mar 15»

Kerosene stove malfunction blamed for death of Amish girl, 3

BUTLER TOWNSHIP, Mich. (AP) — Authorities say a 3-year-old Amish girl died when a kerosene stove malfunction set her southern Michigan home on fire. «WOODTV.com, Mar 15»

Top 5 in wood stove emissions: Vermont, New Hampshire, Maine

FILE - In this March 7, 2006 file photo, food warms on the wood stove during town meeting in Strafford, Vt. Statistics compiled by the Environmental Protection ... «Washington Times, Mar 15»

Sheriff: New suspect charged in stove explosion death

Lockhart said Martin placed Tannerite, an explosive, in a stove and shot it with a ... Jonathan Phelan died after being hit by pieces of the stove on Sunday. «4029tv, Feb 15»