An apparatus for heating (originally, for heating a ‘stove’ in sense 1 or 2). Cf. stew, n.2 1b. A closed box or vessel of earthenware, porcelain, or…
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| 释义 | the world > matter > properties of materials > temperature > heat > heating or making hot > that which or one who heats > [noun] > a device for heating or warming > devices for heating buildings, rooms, etc. > stove (39) stove1604 An apparatus for heating (originally, for heating a ‘stove’ in sense 1 or 2). Cf. stew, n.2 1b. A closed box or vessel of earthenware, porcelain, or… furnace1691 A closed fireplace for heating a building by means of hot-air or hot-water pipes; also, ‘the fireplace of a marine boiler’ (Adm. Smyth). fire stove1699 stow1730 In various senses of stove, n.1: A hot-air bath; a heated room or chamber; a hothouse for plants; a closed fireplace. Obsolete. poil1756 A furnace, a stove. stove-fire1769 (see quot. 1769). hypocaust1829 transferred. A stove. magazine stove1875 a kind of stove with a fuel-chamber which supplies the grate. Subcategories:— body of (1) — opening of (1) — blower at mouth of (1) — mica on front of (1) — receptacle for fuel or fire (3) — types of stove (24) |
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