Uttal
GenAm:
US:
- RP:
Ordet hittades på dessa språk:
Böjningsformer
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stave - perfektparticip
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stave - imperfekt
Definitioner
Substantiv
- A heater, a closed apparatus to burn fuel for the warming of a room.
- A device for heating food, (UK) a cooker.
- (chiefly UK) A hothouse (in which plants are kept).
- (dated) A house or room artificially warmed or heated.
Verb
- (transitive) To heat or dry, as in a stove.
- (transitive) To keep warm, in a house or room, by artificial heat.
Exempel
- We toted in the wood and got the fire going nice and comfortable. Lord James still set in one of the chairs and Applegate had cabbaged the other and was hugging the stove.
- There existed only one specimen of this sacred tree in all Mexico, at least to the knowledge of the Mexicans; [...] In spite, however, of the firmest convictions of the indivisibility of this tree — the Manitas, as it is commonly called — it has been propagated by cuttings, some of which are at this moment thriving in some of the larger stoves of our modern collectors.
- Let but these facts lie contrasted with the treatment they usually receive in the stoves of this country, and the reason why they never grow to any considerable size, attain to any degree of perfection, or flourish to any extent [...]
- When most of the waiters were commanded away to their supper, the parlour or stove being nearly emptied, in came a company of musketeers.
- How tedious is it to them that live in stoves and caves half a year together, as in Iceland, Muscovy, or under the pole!
- to stove feathers
- to stove orange trees
- I smell something frying on the stove.
- wood stove, coal stove
Böjningsformer