STOVEとは

意味・読み方・使い方

語源 1

From Middle Dutch stove 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, Danish and Norwegian stue and Swedish stuga). Doublet of stufa.

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.
   • April 1, 1634, Thomas Wentworth, 1st Earl of Strafford, letter to the Lord Deputy

     When most of the waiters were commanded away to their supper, the Parlour or Stove being near emptied, in came a Company of Musketeers.

   • 1624, Democritus Junior [pseudonym; Robert Burton], The Anatomy of Melancholy: […], 2nd edition, Oxford, Oxfordshire: Printed by John Lichfield and James Short, for Henry Cripps, OCLC 54573970:

     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?)