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Stove vs Forge - What's the difference?

stove | forge |

As verbs the difference between stove and forge

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

As a noun stove

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

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

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    forge

    English

    Etymology 1

    From (etyl) forge, early Old French faverge, from (etyl) (genitive fabri).

    Noun

    (wikipedia forge) (en noun)
  • Furnace or hearth where metals are heated prior to hammering them into shape.
  • Workshop in which metals are shaped by heating and hammering them.
  • The act of beating or working iron or steel.
  • * Francis Bacon
  • In the greater bodies the forge was easy.

    Etymology 2

    From (etyl) forger, from (etyl) forgier, from (etyl) .

    Verb

  • (lb) To shape a metal by heating and hammering.
  • *(William Shakespeare) (c.1564–1616)
  • *:Mars's armor forged for proof eterne
  • *
  • *:Orion hit a rabbit once; but though sore wounded it got to the bury, and, struggling in, the arrow caught the side of the hole and was drawn out.. Ikey the blacksmith had forged us a spearhead after a sketch from a picture of a Greek warrior; and a rake-handle served as a shaft.
  • To form or create with concerted effort.
  • :
  • *(John Locke) (1632-1705)
  • *:Those names that the schools forged , and put into the mouth of scholars, could never get admittance into common use.
  • * (1809-1892)
  • *:do forge a life-long trouble for ourselves.
  • To create a forgery of; to make a counterfeit item of; to copy or imitate unlawfully.
  • :
  • To make falsely; to produce, as that which is untrue or not genuine; to fabricate.
  • *1663 , , (Hudibras)
  • *:That paltry story is untrue, / And forged to cheat such gulls as you.
  • Etymology 3

    Make way, move ahead'', most likely an alteration of ''force , but perhaps from , via notion of steady hammering at something. Originally nautical, in referrence to vessels.

    Verb

  • (often as forge ahead ) To move forward heavily and slowly (originally as a ship); to advance gradually but steadily; to proceed towards a goal in the face of resistance or difficulty.
  • The party of explorers forged through the thick underbrush.
    We decided to forge ahead with our plans even though our biggest underwriter backed out.
  • * De Quincey
  • And off she [a ship] forged without a shock.
  • (sometimes as forge ahead ) To advance, move or act with an abrupt increase in speed or energy.
  • With seconds left in the race, the runner forged into first place.
    Derived terms
    * forgery

    See also

    * fabricate * make up * blacksmith

    Anagrams

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