What is the meaning of STOV. Phrases containing STOV
See meanings and uses of STOV!STOV
STOV
Chemistry
Short Take-Off And Vertical Landing
STOV
STOV
STOV
STOV
Acronyms & AI meanings
Youth-United for Survival
Learning Strategies Consortium
Texas Adolescent Literacy Academy
Health Care Preferences Questionnaire
Protection of the Sea Levy
: National Military Family
Premier Holiday Cards
Garden of War
Bible Literacy Project
Pre-Installation Environment
STOV
STOV
imp. of Stave.
A stove for heating a current of air which is directed against its surface by means of pipes, and then distributed through a building.
of Stave
A kind of open stove introduced by Benjamin Franklin, the peculiar feature of which was that a current of heated air was directly supplied to the room from an air box; -- now applied to other varieties of open stoves.
STOV
n.
Pipe made of sheet iron in length and angular or curved pieces fitting together, -- used to connect a portable stove with a chimney flue.
n.
The noise made by steam escaping through a narrow orifice, or by water falling on a hot stove.
n.
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.
n.
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.
a.
To communicate a moderate degree of heat to; to render warm; to supply or furnish heat to; as, a stove warms an apartment.
n.
Any contrivance or implement, as a furnace, stove, or other heated body or vessel, etc., used to impart heat to something, or to contain something to be heated.
n.
A kind of false birth, fabled to be produced by Dutch women from sitting over their stoves; also, an abortion, in a figurative sense; an abortive scheme.
n.
The pavement or floor of brick, stone, or metal in a chimney, on which a fire is made; the floor of a fireplace; also, a corresponding part of a stove.
n.
Fodder for cattle, especially straw or coarse hay.
n.
A hothouse.
v. t.
To heat or dry, as in a stove; as, to stove feathers.
n.
A self-acting apparatus for regulating temperature by the unequal expansion of different metals, liquids, or gases by heat, as in opening or closing the damper of a stove, or the like, as the heat becomes greater or less than is desired.
imp. & p. p.
of Stove
v. t.
To keep warm, in a house or room, by artificial heat; as, to stove orange trees.
superl.
Having much sensible heat; exciting the feeling of warmth in a great degree; very warm; -- opposed to cold, and exceeding warm in degree; as, a hot stove; hot water or air.
p. pr. & vb. n.
of Stove
STOV
STOV