furnace
nounverbattested in dialogue
- United Kingdom//ˈfɜːnɪs//
- United States//ˈfɝnɪs//
An industrial heating device, such as for smelting metal or firing ceramics.
noun
- 1
An industrial heating device, such as for smelting metal or firing ceramics.
Plans for the next phase include furnaces capable of inert atmospheres and partial vacuums.
- 2
A device that provides heat for a building.
HVAC services include furnace maintenance.
- 3
figurativeAny area that is excessively hot.
The busy kitchen became a sweltering furnace.
- 4
figurativeA place or time of punishment, affliction, or great trial; severe experience or discipline.
forged in the furnace of fierce competition
For the Lorde toke you and broughte you out of the yernen fornace of Egipte, to be vnto him a people of enheritaunce, as it is come to paſſe this daye.
For that heroic band—those children of the furnace who, in regions like Texas and Tennessee, maintained their fidelity through terrible trials—we of the North felt for them, and profoundly we honor them.
Etymology
Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *gʷʰer- Proto-Indo-European *-nós Proto-Indo-European *gʷʰr̥nós Proto-Italic *xʷornos Proto-Italic *fornos Latin fornus Proto-Indo-European *-eh₂ks Proto-Italic *-āks Latin -āx Latin fornāx Old French fornaisbor. Middle English forneys English furnace Inherited from Middle English forneys, borrowed from Old French fornais, from Latin fornāx.
verb
- 1
To heat in a furnace.
- 2
To exhale like a furnace.
Forms
- plural
- furnaces
- past tense
- furnaced
- past participle
- furnaced
- present participle
- furnacing
- third person singular
- furnaces
furnace · An industrial heating device, such as for smelting metal or firing ceramics.
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