STOVEとは

意味・読み方・使い方

語源 1

From Middle Dutch and/or Middle Low German stove (compare Dutch stoof), possibly from Proto-Germanic *stubō (“room, living room, heated room”), or borrowed from Romance. Cognate with Old High German stuba (whence German Stube), 古期英語 stofa, stofu (“bathroom, bathhouse”), Old Norse stofa (whence Icelandic stofa (“living room”), Norwegian stove and Danish and Norwegian stue and Swedish stuga).

名詞

stove (複数形 stoves)

1. A heater, a closed apparatus to burn fuel for the warming of a room.
   • 1913, Joseph C. Lincoln, chapter 8, in Mr. Pratt's Patients:

     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.

2. A device for heating food, (英国用法) a cooker.
3. (chiefly Britain) A hothouse (heated greenhouse).
   • 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 […]

4. (dated) A house or room artificially warmed or heated.
   • (Can we date this quote by Earl of Strafford かつ provide title, author's full name, かつ other details?)

     When most of the waiters were commanded away to their supper, the parlour or stove being nearly emptied, in came a company of musketeers.

   • (Can we date this quote by Burton かつ provide title, author's full name, かつ other details?)

     How tedious is it to them that live in stoves and caves half a year together, as in Iceland, Muscovy, or under the pole!

派生語

• hobo stove

派生した語

• → Japanese: ストーブ (sutōbu)

動詞

stove (三人称単数 現在形 stoves, 現在分詞 stoving, 過去形および過去分詞形 stoved)

1. (transitive) To heat or dry, as in a stove.

   to stove feathers

2. (transitive) To keep warm, in a house or room, by artificial heat.

   to stove orange trees

   (Can we find かつ add a quotation of Francis Bacon to this entry?)

動詞

stove

1. simple past tense and past participle of stave
   • 1851, Herman Melville, Moby-Dick, chapters 7 and 36:

     [A]ye, a stove boat will make me an immortal by brevet.

     "A dead whale or a stove boat!"

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