furnace
English
Etymology
From Middle English forneys, borrowed from Old French fornais (French fournaise), from Latin fornāx.
Pronunciation
- (General American) IPA(key): /ˈfɝnɪs/
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ˈfɜːnɪs/
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Noun
furnace (plural furnaces)
- (Britain) An industrial heating device, e.g. for smelting metal or baking ceramics.
- (US, Canada) A device that provides heat for a building; a space heater.
- (colloquial) Any area that is excessively hot.
- (figuratively) A place or time of punishment, affliction, or great trial; severe experience or discipline.
- c. 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.
- c. 1530, William Tyndale, Tyndale Bible, Deuteronomy 4:20:
Translations
device for heating — see oven
device for heating in a factory, melting metals, etc
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device for heating a building
Verb
furnace (third-person singular simple present furnaces, present participle furnacing, simple past and past participle furnaced)
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