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1. WordNet® 3.0 (2006)
cooking stove
    n 1: a kitchen appliance used for cooking food; "dinner was
         already on the stove" [syn: stove, kitchen stove,
         range, kitchen range, cooking stove]

2. The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Stove \Stove\, n. [D. stoof a foot stove, originally, a heated
   room, a room for a bath; akin to G. stube room, OHG. stuba a
   heated room, AS. stofe, Icel. stofa a room, bathing room, Sw.
   stufva, stuga, a room, Dan. stue; of unknown origin. Cf.
   Estufa, Stew, Stufa.]
   1. 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.
      [1913 Webster]

            When most of the waiters were commanded away to
            their supper, the parlor or stove being nearly
            emptied, in came a company of musketeers. --Earl of
                                                  Strafford.
      [1913 Webster]

            How tedious is it to them that live in stoves and
            caves half a year together, as in Iceland, Muscovy,
            or under the pole!                    --Burton.
      [1913 Webster]

   2. 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.
      [1913 Webster]

   3. Hence, in modern dwellings: 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.
      [PJC]

   Cooking stove, a stove with an oven, opening for pots,
      kettles, and the like, -- used for cooking.

   Dry stove. See under Dry.

   Foot stove. See under Foot.

   Franklin stove. See in the Vocabulary.

   Stove plant (Bot.), a plant which requires artificial heat
      to make it grow in cold or cold temperate climates.

   Stove plate, thin iron castings for the parts of stoves.
      [1913 Webster]

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