stove

stove

stove [stove stoves stoved stoving]   [stəʊv]    [stoʊv]  noun
1. a piece of equipment that can burn various fuels and is used for heating rooms

• a gas/wood-burning stove

2. (especially NAmE) (BrE also cook·er) (NAmE also range) a large piece of equipment for cooking food, containing an oven and gas or electric rings on top
• She put a pan of water on the stove.
• (NAmE, BrE) Most people don't want to spend hours slaving over a hot stove (= cooking).
see also  stave, stove, stove  _v.
See also: cooker ▪ range  
Word Origin:
Middle English (in the sense ‘sweating room’): from Middle Dutch or Middle Low German stove; perhaps related to the noun stew.  
Example Bank:
• A pan was simmering on the stove.
• A pot of soup was cooking on the stove.
• Don't touch the stove! It's hot.
• I've been slaving over a hot stove all day for you!
• Most people don't want to spend hours slaving over a hot stove.
• There is no heating in the house apart from a small wood-burning stove.

• We cooked dinner outside the tent on a little paraffin stove.