stove

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Related topics: Utensils, Household

stove1 /stəʊv $ stoʊv/ noun [countableC]

1 DFUa piece of kitchen equipment on which you cook food in pots and pans, and that contains an oven 厨灶，炉头 SYN British English cooker

on the stove

a pot of soup simmering on the stove

在炉灶上煨着的一锅汤

2 DHDFUa thing used for heating a room or for cooking, which works by burning wood, coal, oil, or gas 〔取暖或炊事用的〕炉子，火炉

a wood-burning stove

烧木柴的火炉

Examples from the Corpus

stove• Ingeniously designed, the main cabin contained a stove, a curtained bed and cupboards whose painted doors let down into tables.• a camp stove• This is clearly illustrated by the example of a person touching a hot stove.• One old petrol stove clogged up and failed to work at all.• 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.• Put a small skillet on the stove.• Several kettles were on the stove, simmering.

on the stove• Then I put in a little water on the bottom, and put it back on the stove to soften.• The glue-pot was cold on the stove.• Heats the iron on the stove.• Place the cooking liquid from the mushrooms on the stove, add the white wine and bring to the boil.• There was a pot on the stove, a casserole in the oven, and a note on the counter.• Mostly it was hot chocolate she made, warming the milk in a saucepan on the stove before mixing it.• She smiles, pours herself another coffee from the jug simmering on the stove.• Several kettles were on the stove, simmering.

stove2

x-refa past tense and past participle of stave2 stave 的过去式和过去分词

Origin stove1