noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a gas cooker/oven/stove
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Gas cookers are more efficient than electric ones.
potbellied stove
slave (away) over a hot stove (= cook – used humorously )
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
hot
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A man who touches a hot stove does not need to believe in pain.
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Mavis spread her fingers, about to press, then lifted them quickly, as though off a hot stove .
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While Sarah travels, Richard slaves over a hot stove , lovingly preparing a meal.
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This is clearly illustrated by the example of a person touching a hot stove .
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Coventry was in the kitchen, the kettle boiled and keeping hot on the stove .
small
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She sat on the small stove for some while gradually becoming more agitated.
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My small upstairs stove throws out a lot of heat and is probably fuel efficient.
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Each room had a small stove and sink.
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I would strongly recommend, where club rules allow, that you take a small stove and tea-brewing equipment.
■ NOUN
gas
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The gas stove was commonplace enough, although very old, standing on four straight legs.
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Leila cooks on a tiny gas stove nestled into the hold of one of the boats.
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A is the armchair and E the gas stove .
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And where was her gas stove and the red rose bush from the yard?
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Then we boiled it dutifully and heated our tins on the Calor gas stove in the kitchen.
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She lights the gas stove , and makes herself a breakfast of muesli, wholemeal toast and decaffeinated coffee.
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To fight dirt costs more it you have only a gas stove on which to heat water.
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For many years I huddled over a calor gas stove in the winter and ate beans on toast.
kitchen
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Like the fire in the best room, the kitchen stove was kept burning day and night, winter and summer.
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The cord of wood for the kitchen stove was cut too short.
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The fire in the living-room had gone out, and the kitchen stove was burning low.
wood
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In the pub were twenty or so other walkers, similarly soaked, all crowding round a massive wood stove .
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To heat it, they chopped kindling to fire their wood stoves .
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He's got a wood stove in there, hasn't he?
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An old wood stove decorates the center of the dimly lit hall.
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Nenna made the tea and lit the wood stove .
■ VERB
light
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The first few times I lit the stove , up popped yellow flames and I turned it off.
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Hassan has to buy gas cylinders to light the stove and the two small lamps that light his apartment.
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She lights the gas stove , and makes herself a breakfast of muesli, wholemeal toast and decaffeinated coffee.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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a camp stove
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Ingeniously designed, the main cabin contained a stove , a curtained bed and cupboards whose painted doors let down into tables.
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One old petrol stove clogged up and failed to work at all.
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Put a small skillet on the stove .
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Several kettles were on the stove , simmering.
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Some stoves are now designed to run on unleaded petrol.
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Then I put in a little water on the bottom, and put it back on the stove to soften.
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This is clearly illustrated by the example of a person touching a hot stove .