furnace

Speech parts

1. furnace - Noun

2. furnace - Verb

Meaning

An inclosed place in which heat is produced by the combustion of fuel, as for reducing ores or melting metals, for warming a house, for baking pottery, etc.; as, an iron furnace; a hot-air furnace; a glass furnace; a boiler furnace, etc.

A place or time of punishment, affiction, or great trial; severe experience or discipline.

To throw out, or exhale, as from a furnace; also, to put into a furnace.

Source: Webster's dictionary

Synonyms

oven kiln boiler hearth smelter firebox blast furnace incinerator kitchener etna foundry crucible smithy bedlam range
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Antonyms

edge freezer icebox ice box cooling device

Hypernyms

chamber

Hyponyms

crematorium crematory kiln forge cupola athanor

Phrases with the word

as hot as a furnace atomic furnace smelting furnace stassano furnace furnace hearth microwave furnace

Anagrams

Fraunce

Examples

The statue of Freedom has not been cast yet, the furnace is hot, we can all still burn our fingers. Georg Büchner

There are two spiritual dangers in not owning a farm. One is the danger of supposing that breakfast comes from the grocery, and the other that heat comes from the furnace. Aldo Leopold

Times of great calamity and confusion have been productive for the greatest minds. The purest ore is produced from the hottest furnace. The brightest thunder-bolt is elicited from the darkest storm. Charles Caleb Colton

Do not allow the Gypsies to lure you out behind the furnace. Lower Austria Proverb

A crucible for silver and a furnace for gold, but Allah tests the heart. Moroccan Proverb

Don't praise your furnace when the house is cold. Russian Proverb

Close letter words and terms

furmint furmity furmonty Furnace Creek furnace for firing furnace hearth