A kitchen appliance used for cooking food:
— Dinner was already on the stove.

synonyms: cooking stove, kitchen range, kitchen stove, range.

Roget 386: furnace, stove, kiln, oven; cracker; hearth, focus, combustion chamber; athanor^†, hypocaust^†, reverberatory; volcano; forge, fiery furnace; limekiln; Dutch oven; tuyere, brasier^†, salamander, heater, warming pan; boiler, caldron, seething caldron, pot; urn, kettle; chafing-dish; retort, crucible, alembic, still; waffle irons; muffle furnace, induction furnace; electric heater, electric furnace, electric resistance heat.    [steel-making furnace] open-hearth furnace.    fireplace, gas fireplace; coal fire, wood fire; fire-dog, fire-irons; grate, range, kitchener; caboose, camboose^†; poker, tongs, shovel, ashpan, hob, trivet; andiron, gridiron; ashdrop; frying-pan, stew-pan, backlog.    [area near a fireplace] hearth, inglenook.    [residential heating methods] oil burner, gas burner, Franklin stove, pot-bellied stove; wood-burning stove; central heating, steam heat, hot water heat, gas heat, forced hot air, electric heat, heat pump; solar heat, convective heat.    hothouse, bakehouse^†, washhouse^†; laundry; conservatory; sudatory^†; Turkish bath, Russian bath, vapor bath, steam bath, sauna, warm bath; vaporarium^†.    ... show more

Dutch: fornuis, keukenfornuis, komfoor, kookfornuis
Polish: kuchenka

Any heating apparatus.

Dutch: haard, kachel, kacheltje, verwarmingstoestel
Polish: piec centralny, piec

music The system of five horizontal lines on which the musical notes are written.

synonym: staff.

Roget 413: melody, rhythm, measure; rhyme etc. (poetry) 597.    pitch, timbre, intonation, tone.    scale, gamut; diapason; diatonic chromatic scale^†, enharmonic scale^†; key, clef, chords.    modulation, temperament, syncope, syncopation, preparation, suspension, resolution.    staff, stave, line, space, brace; bar, rest; appoggiato^†, appoggiatura^†; acciaccatura^†.    note, musical note, notes of a scale; sharp, flat, natural; high note etc. (shrillness) 410; low note etc. 408; interval; semitone; second, third, fourth &c.; diatessaron^†.    breve, semibreve [Mus.], minim, crotchet, quaver; semiquaver, demisemiquaver, hemidemisemiquaver; sustained note, drone, burden.    tonic; key note, leading note, fundamental note; supertonic^†, mediant^†, dominant; submediant^†, subdominant^†; octave, tetrachord^†; major key, minor key, major scale, minor scale, major mode, minor mode; passage, phrase.    concord, harmony; emmeleia^†; unison, unisonance^†; chime, homophony; euphony, euphonism^†; tonality; consonance; consent; part.    [Science of harmony] harmony, harmonics; thorough-bass, fundamental-bass; counterpoint; faburden^†.    piece of music etc. 415 [Fr.]; composer, harmonist^†, contrapuntist (musician) 416.    ... show more

Dutch: personeel, staf, vers, strofe, balk, notenbalk
Polish: pięciolinia

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

synonym: lag.

Dutch: sport
Polish: bindra

A crosspiece between the legs of a chair.

synonyms: round, rung.

Roget 415: music; concert; strain, tune, air; melody etc. 413; aria, arietta^†; piece of music [Fr.], work, number, opus; sonata; rondo, rondeau [Fr.]; pastorale, cavatina^†, roulade^†, fantasia, concerto, overture, symphony, variations, cadenza; cadence; fugue, canon, quodlibet, serenade, notturno [It], dithyramb; opera, operetta; oratorio; composition, movement; stave; passamezzo [It], toccata, Vorspiel [G.].    instrumental music; full score; minstrelsy, tweedledum and tweedledee, band, orchestra; concerted piece [Fr.], potpourri, capriccio.    vocal music, vocalism^†; chaunt, chant; psalm, psalmody; hymn; song etc. (poem) 597; canticle, canzonet^†, cantata, bravura, lay, ballad, ditty, carol, pastoral, recitative, recitativo^†, solfeggio^†.    Lydian measures; slow music, slow movement; adagio etc. adv.; minuet; siren strains, soft music, lullaby; dump; dirge etc. (lament) 839; pibroch^†; martial music, march; dance music; waltz etc. (dance) 840.    solo, duet, duo, trio; quartet, quartett^†; septett^†; part song, descant, glee, madrigal, catch, round, chorus, chorale; antiphon^†, antiphony; accompaniment, second, bass; score; bourdon^†, drone, morceau^†, terzetto^†.    composer etc. 413; musician etc. 416.    ... show more

Furnish with staves.

Roget 720: contend; contest, strive, struggle, scramble, wrestle; spar, square; exchange blows, exchange fisticuffs; fib^†, justle^†, tussle, tilt, box, stave, fence; skirmish; pickeer^†; fight etc. (war) 722; wrangle etc. (quarrel) 713.    contend with &c., grapple with, engage with, close with, buckle with, bandy with, try conclusions with, have a brush etc. n.. with, tilt with; encounter, fall foul of, pitch into, clapperclaw^†, run a tilt at; oppose etc. 708; reluct.    join issue, come to blows, go to loggerheads, set to, come to the scratch, exchange shots, measure swords, meet hand to hand; take up the cudgels, take up the glove, take up the gauntlet; enter the lists; couch one's lance; give satisfaction; appeal to arms; etc. (warfare) 722.    lay about one; break the peace.    compete with, cope with, vie with, race with; outvie^†, emulate, rival; run a race; contend for &c., stipulate for, stickle for; insist upon, make a point of.    ... show more

Burst or force (a hole) into something.

synonym: stave in.