furnace
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4.1
- noun
- /ˈfɜrnɪs/
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horno
- Coal burns in the furnace to generate heat for the factory's production processes.
- furnace and boiler
- coal-fired furnace
- heat-treatment furnace
But when the heat is turned up in the furnace, turns out you don't want that.
- But when the heat is turned up in the furnace, turns out you don't want that.
- I'm not sure if you guys have it, but nonetheless, yeah, my furnace likes to make noises.
- Especially the fact that like, they had baths and tiles and furnaces.
- OK Oh, there's snow on the roof, but there's a fire in the furnace.
- There's there's elements, but we came from the furnaces of stars.
Examples
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It's taken to the glass working furnace and the firing takes place there.
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The function of the furnace is to heat the aluminum parts to 1,000 degrees F.
Academic text (1999) -
We're gonna go and move into the actual furnace room.
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So now I can take this stuff out, throw it in to another furnace, melt it and cool it.
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And the two react inside of this furnace right here.
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Coal burns in a furnace, which turns water into steam.
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Something in the house, probably the furnace, throbbed like his own heart.
Fiction book (1991) -
The orange light of the enormous black furnaces dances on liquid metal.
Fiction book (1991) -
The rollers in an annealing furnace are typically made of cast stainless steel.
Academic text (1998) -
There's a full basement where we have an ultramodern central heating furnace with copper pipes, an oil burner.
Synonyms
69
5.4
A place where a metal worker heats and shapes metal
20
6.3
A hot oven for drying and making things like pottery or bricks hard
3
5.6
A large furnace that makes iron from ore using hot air
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3.3
A machine that burns oil to heat a home or building
1
3.0
A machine that burns gas to heat a building
1
3.9
A machine that uses electricity to make heat instead of burning fuel
1
6.7
A machine that uses a large curved mirror to focus sunlight and make very high heat
A machine that heats things by passing electricity through a metal wire
A machine that uses an electric arc to melt metal to make steel
A large hot oven that makes steel by heating metal on a shallow bed with flames above
A tall vertical furnace that forces hot gas up through solid material to melt metal
A furnace that heats metal by flames reflected from its roof and walls
A furnace that melts metal in a heat resistant container
A large hot oven that melts glass for making bottles and windows
A large oven that melts raw materials so liquid glass comes out the other end
A large oven with several pots for melting glass
Antonyms
Idioms
- Informal
Strong energy and passion that continue even when someone gets older
Compounds
- Specialized
1
3.9
A machine that uses electricity to make heat instead of burning fuel
- Specialized
1
6.7
A machine that uses a large curved mirror to focus sunlight and make very high heat
- Specialized
A large bell-shaped oven that heats steel strips to remove hardening and make them softer
- Specialized
A furnace that covers steel strips with a bell-shaped hood to make them softer
- Specialized
A machine that uses an electric arc to melt metal to make steel
- Specialized
A heat-resistant layer inside a furnace that protects the walls from very high heat
- Specialized
A machine that heats things by passing electricity through a metal wire
- Specialized
A furnace that heats metal by flames reflected from its roof and walls
- Archaic
A large hot oven that makes steel by heating metal on a shallow bed with flames above
- Specialized
A large oven that melts raw materials so liquid glass comes out the other end
- Specialized
A tall vertical furnace that forces hot gas up through solid material to melt metal
- Archaic
An electric furnace that uses a strong spark of electricity to heat metal to make steel
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Etymology
The word furnace comes from the old Latin word fornax, which means 'oven'. Think of a furnace as a very large, hot oven used to melt metal or warm a building, which is why the word now means an enclosed place for producing heat.