furnace








noun

  1. a structure or apparatus in which heat may be generated, as for heating houses, smelting ores, or producing steam.
  2. a place characterized by intense heat: The volcano was a seething furnace.
  3. (initial capital letter) Astronomy. the constellation Fornax.

verb (used with object), fur·naced, fur·nac·ing.

  1. to heat (a metal piece) in a furnace.

noun

  1. an enclosed chamber in which heat is produced to generate steam, destroy refuse, smelt or refine ores, etc
  2. a very hot or stifling place
n.

early 13c., from Old French fornaise “oven, furnace” (12c.), from Latin fornacem (nominative fornax) “an oven, kiln,” related to fornus, furnus “oven,” and to formus “warm,” from PIE root *ghwer- “warm” (cf. Greek thermos, Old English wearm; see warm (adj.)).

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