furnace

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Pronunciation

• (America) IPA: /ˈfɝnɪs/
• (RP) IPA: /ˈfɜːnɪs/

Noun

furnace (plural furnaces)

1. (UK) An industrial heating device, e.g. for smelting metal or baking ceramics.
2. (US, Canada) A device that provides heat for a building; a space heater.
3. (colloquial) Any area that is excessively hot.
4. (figurative) A place or time of punishment, affliction, or great trial; severe experience or discipline.
   • circa 1530 William Tyndale, Tyndale Bible, Deuteronomy 4:20:

     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.

Translations

• French: four, haut fourneau
• German: Ofen, Hochofen, Schmelzofen
• Italian: fornace, bruciatore, caldaia
• Portuguese: forno, fornalha
• Russian: печь
• Spanish: horno, caldera

Translations

• French: chaudière
• German: Ofen, Heizung
• Italian: caldaia, bruciatore
• Portuguese: fornalha
• Russian: печь
• Spanish: calefacción

Translations

• Russian: то́пка

Verb

furnace (furnaces, present participle furnacing; past and past participle furnaced)

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

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