stove for gas or coal heating
1stove — stove1 /stohv/, n., v., stoved, stoving. n. 1. a portable or fixed apparatus that furnishes heat for warmth, cooking, etc., commonly using coal, oil, gas, wood, or electricity as a source of power. 2. a heated chamber or box for some special… …
2gas — I. /gæs / (say gas) noun (plural gases) 1. Physics a substance consisting of atoms or molecules which are sufficiently mobile for it to occupy the whole of the space in which it is contained. 2. any such fluid substance or mixture of substances,… …
3heating — I Process of raising the temperature of an enclosed space. Heat can be delivered by convection, radiation, and thermal conduction. With the exception of the ancient Romans, who developed a form of central heating, most cultures relied on direct… …
4gas stove — noun a range with gas rings and an oven for cooking with gas (Freq. 1) • Syn: ↑gas range, ↑gas cooker • Hypernyms: ↑stove, ↑kitchen stove, ↑range, ↑kitchen range, ↑ …
5gas — noun 1 substance like air ADJECTIVE ▪ deadly, noxious, poisonous, toxic ▪ explosive, flammable, inflammable (esp. BrE), radioactive …
6stove — stove1 [stəuv US stouv] n ↑burner, ↑oven, ↑hotplate, ↑timer [Date: 1400 1500; : Middle Dutch; Origin: Middle Low German, heated room , from Vulgar Latin extufa, from Greek typhein to smoke ] …
7stove — 1 noun (C) 1 a thing used for heating a room or for cooking, which works by burning wood, coal, oil or gas: a wood burning stove | a camp stove compare cooker (1) 2 AmE the top of a cooker 2 verb the past tense and past participle of stave 2 …
8Wood gas — Woodgas flame from a vehicle gasifier unit Wood gas is a syngas fuel which can be used as a fuel for furnaces, stoves and vehicles in place of petrol, diesel or other fuels. During the production process biomass or other carbon containing… …
9Pellet stove — A wood pellet stove A pellet stove is a stove that burns compressed wood or biomass pellets to create a source of heat for residential and sometimes industrial spaces. By slowly feeding fuel from a storage container (hopper) into a burn pot area …
10Liquefied natural gas — Not to be confused with Natural Gas Liquids (NGL). Liquefied natural gas or LNG is natural gas (primarily methane, CH4) that has been converted to liquid form for ease of storage or transport. Liquefied natural gas takes up about 1/600th the… …
