| 单词 | stove |
| 释义 | stove stove1 /stohv/, n. , v. , stoved, stoving. n. 1. a portable or fixed apparatus that furnishes heat for warmth, cooking, etc., commonly using coal, oil, gas, wood, or electricity as a source of power. 2. a heated chamber or box for some special purpose, as a drying room or a kiln for firing pottery. v.t. 3. to treat with or subject to heat, as in a stove. [1425-75; (n.) late ME: sweat bath, heated room, prob. < MD, MLG, c. OE stofa, stofu heated room for bathing, OHG stuba (G Stube room; cf. BIERSTUBE), ON stofa; early Gmc borrowing < VL *extupa, *extupa ( > F étuve sweat room of a bath; cf. STEW1), n. deriv. of *extupare, *extufare to fill with vapor, equiv. to L ex- EX-1 + VL *-tufare < Gk týphein to raise smoke, smoke, akin to typhos fever (see TYPHUS); alternatively explained as a native Gmc base, borrowed into Rom (cf. IZBA); (v.) late ME stoven to subject to hot-air bath, deriv. of the n.] stove2 /stohv/, v. a pt. and pp. of stave. |
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