Conservatory vs Stove - What's the difference?
conservatory | stove |
(rare) pertaining to conservation
Having the quality of preserving from loss, decay, or injury.
(obsolete) That which preserves from injury.
A greenhouse or hothouse for the display of plants
A school of music or drama; a conservatoire
A heater, a closed apparatus to burn fuel for the warming of a room.
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, title= A device for heating food, (UK ) a cooker.
(chiefly, UK) A hothouse (in which plants are kept).
* 1850 , M. A. Burnett, Plantae utiliores: or illustrations of useful plants, employed in the arts and medicine , part 8:
* 1854 , in The Horticultural Review and Botanical Magazine , volume 4, page 208:
(dated) A house or room artificially warmed or heated.
* Earl of Strafford
* Burton
To heat or dry, as in a stove.
To keep warm, in a house or room, by artificial heat.
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In lang=en terms the difference between conservatory and stove
is that conservatory is pertaining to conservation while stove is a house or room artificially warmed or heated.As an adjective conservatory
is pertaining to conservation.As a verb stove is
to heat or dry, as in a stove.conservatory
English
Etymology 1
Adjective
(en adjective)Noun
(conservatories)- A conservatory of life. — Jeremy Taylor.
Etymology 2
Noun
(conservatories)Synonyms
(music) * college of music * conservatory of music * musical school * music conservatory * music department * music school * school of music (drama) * academy of drama * drama school * theater school * theatre schoolstove
English
(Wikipedia)Etymology 1
From (etyl) and/or (etyl) stove (compare Dutch stoof), possibly from (etyl) , Norwegian stove and Danish and Norwegian stue and Swedish stuga).Noun
(en noun)Mr. Pratt's Patients, passage=We toted in the wood and got the fire going nice and comfortable. Lord James still set in one of the chairs and Applegate had cabbaged the other and was hugging the stove .}}
- There existed only one specimen of this sacred tree in all Mexico, at least to the knowledge of the Mexicans; In spite, however, of the firmest convictions of the indivisibility of this tree — the Manitas, as it is commonly called — it has been propagated by cuttings, some of which are at this moment thriving in some of the larger stoves of our modern collectors.
- Let but these facts lie contrasted with the treatment they usually receive in the stoves of this country, and the reason why they never grow to any considerable size, attain to any degree of perfection, or flourish to any extent
- When most of the waiters were commanded away to their supper, the parlour or stove being nearly emptied, in came a company of musketeers.
- How tedious is it to them that live in stoves and caves half a year together, as in Iceland, Muscovy, or under the pole!
Derived terms
*Verb
(stov)- to stove feathers
- to stove orange trees
- (Francis Bacon)
