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STAVE

Pronunciation (US):

(GB):

Irregular inflected form: stove   

 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

A crosspiece between the legs of a chair

Synonyms:

round; rung; stave

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Hypernyms ("stave" is a kind of...):

crosspiece (a transverse brace)

Holonyms ("stave" is a part of...):

folding chair (a chair that can be folded flat for storage)

feeding chair; highchair (a chair for feeding a very young child; has four long legs and a footrest and a detachable tray)

rocker; rocking chair (a chair mounted on rockers)

side chair; straight chair (a straight-backed chair without arms)

Derivation:

stave (furnish with staves)

Sense 2

Meaning:

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

Synonyms:

lag; stave

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Hypernyms ("stave" is a kind of...):

slat; spline (a thin strip (wood or metal))

Holonyms ("stave" is a part of...):

barrel; cask (a cylindrical container that holds liquids)

Sense 3

Meaning:

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

Synonyms:

staff; stave

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Hypernyms ("stave" is a kind of...):

musical notation ((music) notation used by musicians)

Meronyms (parts of "stave"):

staff line (any of the 5 horizontal marks comprising a staff)

space (one of the areas between or below or above the lines of a musical staff)

Domain category:

music (an artistic form of auditory communication incorporating instrumental or vocal tones in a structured and continuous manner)

 II. (verb) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

Burst or force (a hole) into something

Synonyms:

stave; stave in

Classified under:

Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.

Hypernyms (to "stave" is one way to...):

break open; burst; split (come open suddenly and violently, as if from internal pressure)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s something

Sense 2

Meaning:

Furnish with staves

Example:

stave a ladder

Classified under:

Verbs of buying, selling, owning

Hypernyms (to "stave" is one way to...):

equip; fit; fit out; outfit (provide with (something) usually for a specific purpose)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s something

Derivation:

stave (a crosspiece between the legs of a chair)

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 Context examples: 

Don't leave the stove or oven unattended when they are on.

(Fire Safety, NIH)

As soon as he showed signs of life we wrapped him up in blankets and placed him near the chimney of the kitchen stove.

(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)

Jo turned hot at the bare idea, and stuffed the whole bundle into her stove, nearly setting the chimney afire with the blaze.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

They had also their long staves in hand.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

Research has shown that physical exercise stimulates production of a brain-derived nerve growth factor capable of staving off brain aging in apes.

(Exercise May Help Seniors with Word, Memory Problems, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

The public, represented by a boy with a comforter, and a shabby-genteel man secretly eating crumbs out of his coat pockets, was warming itself at a stove in the centre of the Court.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

Don't use a heating pad, heat lamp, or the heat of a stove, fireplace, or radiator for warming. Since frostbite makes an area numb, you could burn it.

(Frostbite, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention)

She saw a large, well-proportioned apartment, an handsome dimity bed, arranged as unoccupied with an housemaid's care, a bright Bath stove, mahogany wardrobes, and neatly painted chairs, on which the warm beams of a western sun gaily poured through two sash windows!

(Northanger Abbey, by Jane Austen)

“Now, Barbecue, tip us a stave,” cried one voice.

(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)

When I had finished washing the dishes, I cleaned the cabin stove and carried the ashes up on deck to empty them.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)