What is the difference between furnace and stove?
furnace | stove |
A device for heating.
A device that heats materials being processed in a factory.
A device that provides heat for a building.
Any area that is excessively hot.
(figurative) A place or time of punishment, affiction, or great trial; severe experience or discipline.
* William Tyndale, (Tyndale Bible), :
To heat in a furnace
A heater, a closed apparatus to burn fuel for the warming of a room.
* , chapter=8
, 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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As nouns the difference between furnace and stove
is that furnace is a device for heating while stove is a heater, a closed apparatus to burn fuel for the warming of a room.As verbs the difference between furnace and stove
is that furnace is to heat in a furnace while stove is to heat or dry, as in a stove.furnace
English
Noun
(en noun)- For the Lorde toke you and broughte you out of the yernen fornace of Egipte, to be vnto him a people of enheritaunce, as it is come to passe this daye.
Verb
(furnac)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)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)
