Sekirov Dictionary

furnace

UK /ˈfɜːnɪs/US /ˈfɝnɪs/

noun 4
verb 2
forms 3

noun4

•
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.
•
(US, Canada) A device that provides heat for a building.
- HVAC services include furnace maintenance.
•
(informal, figurative) Any area that is excessively hot.
- The busy kitchen became a sweltering furnace.
•
(figurative) A place or time of punishment, affliction, or great trial; severe experience or discipline.
- 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. — 1530

verb2

To heat in a furnace.
To exhale like a furnace.

forms

furnaced · furnacing · furnaces

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