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Meaning of blast furnace | Babel Free

Noun CEFR B2

Definitions

  1. An industrial furnace in which ore is smelted to metal, the process being intensified by a blast of hot air.
  2. As above, but specifically such a furnace where the fuel and the ore are intermixed, as for example when coke and iron ore are burned together.

Equivalents

Čeština vysoká pec
Dansk højovn
Deutsch Hochofen
Ελληνικά υψικάμινος
Español alto horno
Euskara labe garai
Suomi masuuni
Français haut fourneau
Gaeilge foirnéis soinneáin
Bahasa Indonesia tanur tiup
Italiano altoforno
日本語 熔鉱炉 高炉
Қазақша домна темірлік
한국어 고로 용광로
Latviešu domna
Polski wielki piec
Português alto forno alto-forno
Română furnal
Русский домна
Svenska masugn
Tiếng Việt lò cao

Examples

“Holonyms: ironworks, steelworks”
“Meronym: tuyeres”
“Just before Bloworth Crossing, you'll walk a short distance along the trackbed of the old mineral railway that connected the old ironstone mines at Rosedale with the blast furnaces of Middlesbrough.”

CEFR level

B2
Upper Intermediate
This word is part of the CEFR B2 vocabulary — upper intermediate level.
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See also

blast furnace gas blast gear blast lamp blast pen blast pipe blast processing

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