stove

«stove» in Mova's school dictionary: A piece of kitchen equipment for cooking, with hot rings… — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 2 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

part of speech

noun (a stove, stoves)

meaning for a pupil

1) A piece of kitchen equipment for cooking, with hot rings or burners on top and often an oven. tree →

2) A closed metal box that burns wood, coal or gas to heat a room. tree →

sense in the lessons

In everyday life, food is cooked on the stove; in British English it is often called a "cooker" or "hob". In safety lessons, children learn that the stove is hot, turn pan handles inward, never leave cooking alone, and keep tea towels away from flames. Camping stoves are used outdoors. Phrases: on the stove, stovetop, gas stove, wood stove, camping stove.

examples

• The soup is heating on the stove. tree →
• Turn pan handles inward on the stove. tree →
• Don't touch the stove — it's hot! tree →
• We cooked sausages on a camping stove. tree →
• A wood stove keeps the cabin warm. tree →
• Ask an adult before using the stove. tree →
• The devils flung themselves on the stove. tree →

note

Countable: a stove, stoves. In the UK the top part is "the hob" and the whole thing is "the cooker"; in the USA, Canada and Australia "stove" is usual. Safety: a stove can stay hot after it is turned off; if a pan catches fire, never throw water on it — get an adult.

In the corpora

• The story that Goodyear dropped rubber on a hot stove by accident is often told, but the details are not certain.
• Children should cook only with an adult nearby and never leave the stove on when nobody is watching it.

Trees and pragmatics

Every meaning and example of «stove» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.