STOVE


Meaning of STOVE in English

noun

COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES

a gas cooker/oven/stove

Gas cookers are more efficient than electric ones.

potbellied stove

slave (away) over a hot stove (= cook – used humorously )

COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS

■ ADJECTIVE

hot

A man who touches a hot stove does not need to believe in pain.

Mavis spread her fingers, about to press, then lifted them quickly, as though off a hot stove .

While Sarah travels, Richard slaves over a hot stove , lovingly preparing a meal.

This is clearly illustrated by the example of a person touching a hot stove .

Coventry was in the kitchen, the kettle boiled and keeping hot on the stove .

small

She sat on the small stove for some while gradually becoming more agitated.

My small upstairs stove throws out a lot of heat and is probably fuel efficient.

Each room had a small stove and sink.

I would strongly recommend, where club rules allow, that you take a small stove and tea-brewing equipment.

■ NOUN

gas

The gas stove was commonplace enough, although very old, standing on four straight legs.

Leila cooks on a tiny gas stove nestled into the hold of one of the boats.

A is the armchair and E the gas stove .

And where was her gas stove and the red rose bush from the yard?

Then we boiled it dutifully and heated our tins on the Calor gas stove in the kitchen.

She lights the gas stove , and makes herself a breakfast of muesli, wholemeal toast and decaffeinated coffee.

To fight dirt costs more it you have only a gas stove on which to heat water.

For many years I huddled over a calor gas stove in the winter and ate beans on toast.

kitchen

Like the fire in the best room, the kitchen stove was kept burning day and night, winter and summer.

The cord of wood for the kitchen stove was cut too short.

The fire in the living-room had gone out, and the kitchen stove was burning low.

wood

In the pub were twenty or so other walkers, similarly soaked, all crowding round a massive wood stove .

To heat it, they chopped kindling to fire their wood stoves .

He's got a wood stove in there, hasn't he?

An old wood stove decorates the center of the dimly lit hall.

Nenna made the tea and lit the wood stove .

■ VERB

light

The first few times I lit the stove , up popped yellow flames and I turned it off.

Hassan has to buy gas cylinders to light the stove and the two small lamps that light his apartment.

She lights the gas stove , and makes herself a breakfast of muesli, wholemeal toast and decaffeinated coffee.

EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES

a camp stove

EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS

Ingeniously designed, the main cabin contained a stove , a curtained bed and cupboards whose painted doors let down into tables.

One old petrol stove clogged up and failed to work at all.

Put a small skillet on the stove .

Several kettles were on the stove , simmering.

Some stoves are now designed to run on unleaded petrol.

Then I put in a little water on the bottom, and put it back on the stove to soften.

This is clearly illustrated by the example of a person touching a hot stove .

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