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Stove vs Flute - What's the difference?

stove | flute |

As verbs the difference between stove and flute

is that stove is to heat or dry, as in a stove or stove can be (stave) while flute is .

As a noun stove

is a heater, a closed apparatus to burn fuel for the warming of a room.

As an adjective flute is

reedy (of a voice).

stove

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)
  • A heater, a closed apparatus to burn fuel for the warming of a room.
  • * , chapter=8
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  • 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:
  • 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.
  • * 1854 , in The Horticultural Review and Botanical Magazine , volume 4, page 208:
  • 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
  • (dated) A house or room artificially warmed or heated.
  • * Earl of Strafford
  • When most of the waiters were commanded away to their supper, the parlour or stove being nearly emptied, in came a company of musketeers.
  • * Burton
  • 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
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    Verb

    (stov)
  • To heat or dry, as in a stove.
  • to stove feathers
  • To keep warm, in a house or room, by artificial heat.
  • to stove orange trees
    (Francis Bacon)
    (Webster 1913)

    Etymology 2

    Verb

    (head)
  • (stave)
  • Anagrams

    * * ----

    flute

    English

    Etymology 1

    From (etyl) flaute, from (etyl) flaut, ultimately from three possibilities: * Blend of Provencal * From Latin * Imitative.

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (musical instruments) A woodwind instrument consisting of a metal, wood or bamboo tube with a row of circular holes and played by blowing across a hole in the side of one end or through a narrow channel at one end against a sharp edge, while covering none, some or all of the holes with the fingers to vary the note played.
  • * Alexander Pope
  • The breathing flute's soft notes are heard around.
  • A glass with a long, narrow bowl and a long stem, used for drinking wine, especially champagne.
  • a lengthwise groove, such as one of the lengthwise grooves on a can escape
  • (architecture, firearms) A semicylindrical vertical groove, as in a pillar, in plaited cloth, or in a rifle barrel to cut down the weight.
  • A long French bread roll.
  • (Simmonds)
  • An organ stop with a flute-like sound.
  • Derived terms
    * pan flute * skin flute
    See also
    * bansuri

    Verb

  • To play on a .
  • To make a flutelike sound.
  • To utter with a flutelike sound.
  • *
  • To form flutes or channels in (as in a column, a ruffle, etc.); to cut a semicylindrical vertical groove in (as in a pillar, etc.).
  • Etymology 2

    Compare (etyl) ?, (etyl) fluit.

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A kind of flyboat; a storeship.