Stave vs. Stove — What's the Difference?

A narrow strip of wood forming part of the sides of a barrel, tub, or similar structure.

A stove is a device that burns fuel or uses electricity to generate heat inside or on top of the apparatus. It has seen many developments over time and serves the main purpose of cooking food.

One of the wooden planks in a stave wall.

An apparatus for cooking or heating that operates by burning fuel or using electricity.

A rung of a ladder or chair.

A hothouse for plants.

A staff or cudgel.

Fumigate or disinfect (a house) with sulphur or other fumes.

(Music) See staff1.

Treat (an object) by heating it in a stove in order to apply a desired surface coating.

A set of verses; a stanza.

Force or raise (plants) in a hothouse.

To crush or smash inward, often by making a hole. Often used with in

An apparatus in which electricity or a fuel is used to furnish heat, as for cooking or warmth.

One of a number of narrow strips of wood, or narrow iron plates, placed edge to edge to form the sides, covering, or lining of a vessel or structure; especially, one of the strips which form the sides of a cask, barrel, pail, etc.

A device that produces heat for specialized, especially industrial, purposes.

One of the bars or rounds of a rack, rungs of a ladder, etc; one of the cylindrical bars of a lantern wheel

A kiln.

(poetry) A metrical portion; a stanza; a staff.

Chiefly British A hothouse.

(music) The five horizontal and parallel lines on and between which musical notes are written or pointed; the staff.

A past tense and a past participle of stave.

The initial consonant, consonant cluster, or vowel of a word which rhymes with another word with the same consonant or vowel in stave-rhyme.

A device for heating food, (UK) a cooker.

A sign, symbol or sigil, including rune or rune-like characters, used in Icelandic magic.

A stovetop, with hotplates.

A staff or walking stick.

A hothouse heated greenhouse.

(transitive) To fit or furnish with staves or rundles.

(dated) A house or room artificially warmed or heated.

To break in the staves of; to break a hole in; to burst.

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

To push, or keep off, as with a staff.

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

To delay by force or craft; to drive away.

A house or room artificially warmed or heated; a forcing house, or hothouse; a drying room; - formerly, designating an artificially warmed dwelling or room, a parlor, or a bathroom, but now restricted, in this sense, to heated houses or rooms used for horticultural purposes or in the processes of the arts.

To burst in pieces by striking against something.

An apparatus, consisting essentially of a receptacle for fuel, made of iron, brick, stone, or tiles, and variously constructed, in which fire is made or kept for warming a room or a house, or for culinary or other purposes.

To walk or move rapidly.

An appliance having a top surface with fittings suitable for heating pots and pans for cooking, frying, or boiling food, most commonly heated by gas or electricity, and often combined with an oven in a single unit; a cooking stove. Such units commonly have two to six heating surfaces, called burners, even if they are heated by electricity rather than a gas flame.

To suffer, or cause to be lost by breaking the cask.

To keep warm, in a house or room, by artificial heat; as, to stove orange trees.

To render impervious or solid by driving with a calking iron.

To heat or dry, as in a stove; as, to stove feathers.

One of a number of narrow strips of wood, or narrow iron plates, placed edge to edge to form the sides, covering, or lining of a vessel or structure; esp., one of the strips which form the sides of a cask, a pail, etc.

A kitchen appliance used for cooking food;

One of the cylindrical bars of a lantern wheel; one of the bars or rounds of a rack, a ladder, etc.

Any heating apparatus

A metrical portion; a stanza; a staff.

The five horizontal and parallel lines on and between which musical notes are written or printed; the staff{7}.

To break in a stave or the staves of; to break a hole in; to burst; - often with in; as, to stave a cask; to stave in a boat.

To push, as with a staff; - with off.

To delay by force or craft; to drive away; - usually with off; as, to stave off the execution of a project.

To suffer, or cause, to be lost by breaking the cask.

To furnish with staves or rundles.

To render impervious or solid by driving with a calking iron; as, to stave lead, or the joints of pipes into which lead has been run.

To burst in pieces by striking against something; to dash into fragments.

(music) the system of five horizontal lines on which the musical notes are written

One of several thin slats of wood forming the sides of a barrel or bucket

A crosspiece between the legs of a chair

Furnich with staves;

Burst or force (a hole) into something