Meaning of furnace | Babel Free

Definitions

1. oven
2. An industrial heating device, such as for smelting metal or firing ceramics.
3. A surname, variant of Furness.
4. A device that provides heat for a building.
   Canada, US
5. a very hot place
6. Any area that is excessively hot.
   colloquial, figuratively
7. A place or time of punishment, affliction, or great trial; severe experience or discipline.
   figuratively

Equivalents

Examples

“Plans for the next phase include furnaces capable of inert atmospheres and partial vacuums.”

“HVAC services include furnace maintenance.”

“The busy kitchen became a sweltering furnace.”

“forged in the furnace of fierce competition”

“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.”

“For that heroic band—those children of the furnace who, in regions like Texas and Tennessee, maintained their fidelity through terrible trials—we of the North felt for them, and profoundly we honor them.”

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