furnace room
3
3.8
- noun
- /ˈfɜrnɪs ruːm/
- US
:
cuarto de calderas
- The furnace room is located in the basement, where the heating system keeps the entire house warm.
- the actual furnace room
- next to the furnace room
- went into the furnace room
Examples
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"It was eight o'clock Saturday morning when we went into the furnace room.
Fiction book (1993) -
There was nothing in the furnace room or the coal bin.
Fiction book (1991) -
There has been a fire in the furnace room.
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We're gonna go and move into the actual furnace room.
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We need you in the furnace room.
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Can I get out of the building through that metal door in the furnace room?
Fiction book (1995) -
On the far side of the furnace room, I found another wooden door.
Fiction book (1995) -
It led into a small furnace room.
Fiction book (1995) -
We're gonna do a walk-through, and we're now descending the stairs into the furnace room.
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He turned the former furnace room into an expanded machine shop and erected a new carpentry shop, wheelwright shop, and mechanical hammer shop.
Academic text (2007)
Synonyms
A ship room where crew feed the fires that make steam for engines
Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning 'a room that contains a furnace' is directly and transparently derived from combining 'furnace' (a heating device/space for heating) with 'room' (an indoor area). This noun–noun compound follows a common and predictable formation found cross-linguistically, so a B1 learner who knows both constituents will readily infer the MWE meaning.
Etymology
Furnace room names the room that holds the furnace, the machine that makes 'heat'. That's why furnace room means the room with the heating machine, the place that helps 'warm' the building.