Stove vs Stovec - What's the difference?

As nouns the difference between stove and stovec

is that stove is a heater, a closed apparatus to burn fuel for the warming of a room while stovec is (uk|police) a stolen car, van, lorry or other motor vehicle.

As a verb stove

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

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.

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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

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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stovec

English

Noun

(en noun)

(UK, police) A stolen car, van, lorry or other motor vehicle.

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I think it is because if a garage get a stovec and no one claims it, they dont(sic) get paid, not only that, they have to pay AADL too.

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If there's a car on your drive when you get home, and you can't get onto the drive yourself, there's no obstruction as such. However, it would be worth a phone call to the police (non emergency number) as you never know, the car might be an outstanding stovec , in which case we will come, and it will be removed.