Stove vs Straw - What's the difference?
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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)
(countable) A dried stalk of a cereal plant.
(uncountable) Such dried stalks considered collectively.
(countable) A drinking straw.
a pale, yellowish beige colour, like that of a dried straw.
(figurative) Anything proverbially worthless; the least possible thing.
*XIX c. , recorded by Francis James Child,
*:‘For thy sword and thy bow I care not a straw ,
*:Nor all thine arrows to boot;
*:If I get a knop upon thy bare scop,
*:Thou canst as well shite as shoote.’
*1857 , Anthony Trollope, Barchester Towers :
*:He also decided, which was more to his purpose, that Eleanor did not care a straw for him, and that very probably she did care a straw for his rival.
*1881 , :
*:To be deeply interested in the accidents of our existence, to enjoy keenly the mixed texture of human experience, rather leads a man to disregard precautions, and risk his neck against a straw .
Made of straw.
Of a pale, yellowish beige colour, like that of a dried straw.
As a noun stove
is a heater, a closed apparatus to burn fuel for the warming of a room.As a verb stove
is to heat or dry, as in a stove or stove can be (stave).As a proper noun straw is
.stove
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(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
* * ----straw
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Noun
Derived terms
* * strawberryAdjective
(-)- straw hat