Stove vs Store - What's the difference?
stove | store |
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.
(stave)
A place where items may be accumulated or routinely kept.
A supply held in storage.
*
(label) A place where items may be purchased.
*{{quote-book, year=1899, author=(Stephen Crane)
, title=, chapter=1
, passage=There was some laughter, and Roddle was left free to expand his ideas on the periodic visits of cowboys to the town. “Mason Rickets, he had ten big punkins a-sittin' in front of his store , an' them fellers from the Upside-down-F ranch shot 'em up […].”}}
Memory.
A large amount of information retained in one's memory.
A great quantity or number.
* (John Milton) (1608-1674)
(transitive) To keep (something) while not in use, generally in a place meant for that purpose.
* {{quote-book, year=1963, author=(Margery Allingham)
, title=(The China Governess)
, chapter=1 (computing) Write (something) into memory or registers.
(intransitive) To remain in good condition while stored.
As verbs the difference between stove and store
is that stove is to heat or dry, as in a stove or stove can be (stave) while store 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)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)
Etymology 2
Verb
(head)Anagrams
* * ----store
English
Noun
(en noun)- By late summer a sufficient store of stone had accumulated, and then the building began, under the superintendence of the pigs.
- With store of ladies, whose bright eyes / Rain influence, and give the prize.
Synonyms
* (supply held in storage) stock, supply * (place from which items may be purchased) boutique, shop (UK); see also * (in computing) memoryDerived terms
* company store * drugstore * general store * variety store * give away the store * in store * mind the store * put store in * set store by * storage * storebought * storefront * storehouse * storekeeper * storeroomVerb
(stor)citation, passage=The half-dozen pieces […] were painted white and carved with festoons of flowers, birds and cupids. To display them the walls had been tinted a vivid blue which had now faded, but the carpet, which had evidently been stored and recently relaid, retained its original turquoise.}}