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.
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.
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.
To keep warm, in a house or room, by artificial heat; as, to stove orange trees.
To heat or dry, as in a stove; as, to stove feathers.
a kitchen appliance used for cooking food; "dinner was already on the stove"
a ancient type of device for heating up sauna, which works by preheating the stones and storing the heat into the large amount of stones
a freestanding heating appliance that usually must be placed on a non-combustable surface such as a hearthpad or masonry floor
a freestanding unit that stands away from the wall
an appliance, but a television is not
an appliance used to generate heat
Closed burning appliance designed for local space heating - can burn any fuel.
To use heat, particularly in hot air ovens, to cure coatings.
A stove is a heat-producing device. The word typically describes an appliance used either for generating warmth or for cooking. In British English, however, the term cooker is normally used for the cooking appliance, and stove for a wood- or coal-burning room-heating appliance.