| 单词 | furnace |
| 释义 | furnace (once / 578 pages) n A furnace is an appliance that heats houses and buildings by burning fuel or circulating hot water. Your furnace might rumble in the basement, sending heat up through your house's radiators. Most houses in cold climates have a furnace, to warm their rooms during the chilly months of the year. Furnaces also have industrial uses, like burning trash or extracting ore from metal. If someone says, "It's as hot as a furnace in this classroom!" they mean that it's extremely hot. Furnace comes from the Old French fornaise, "oven," with the Latin root word fornacem, "oven or kiln." WORD FAMILYfurnace: furnaces USAGE EXAMPLESTo reduce heating costs, wood furnaces were installed in the homes and residents were put to work to provide a steady supply of wood. Washington Times(Dec 31, 2016) Fire Chief Dan Meehan says the man was working on an old furnace underneath a grate in the floor when he fell in headfirst. Washington Times(Dec 29, 2016) Carbon monoxide is an odorless, colorless gas produced when fuel is burned for cars, stoves, lanterns, fireplaces, furnaces, grills, and generators. Time(Dec 29, 2016) n an enclosed chamber in which heat is produced to heat buildings, destroy refuse, smelt or refine ores, etc. Hypo|Hyper athanor a furnace that feeds itself so as to maintain a uniform temperature; used by alchemists blast furnacea furnace for smelting of iron from iron oxide ores; combustion is intensified by a blast of air cremation chamber, crematorium, crematorya furnace where a corpse can be burned and reduced to ashes cupolaa vertical cylindrical furnace for melting iron for casting electric furnaceany furnace in which the heat is provided by an electric current fireboxa furnace (as on a steam locomotive) in which fuel is burned forgefurnace consisting of a special hearth where metal is heated before shaping gas furnacea furnace that burns gas incineratora furnace for incinerating (especially to dispose of refuse) kilna furnace for firing or burning or drying such things as porcelain or bricks oil burner, oil furnacea furnace that burns oil open-hearth furnacea furnace for making steel in which the steel is placed on a shallow hearth and flames of burning gas and hot air play over it reverberatory furnacea furnace in which the material that is being treated is heated indirectly by flames that are directed at the roof and walls of the furnace tank furnacefurnace into one end of which a batch of measured raw materials is shoveled and from the other end molten glass is obtained brickkilna kiln for making bricks dry kilna kiln for drying and seasoning lumber gas ovena cremation chamber fueled by gas limekilna kiln used to reduce naturally occurring forms of calcium carbonate to lime mufflea kiln with an inner chamber for firing things at a low temperature oasta kiln for drying hops Stassano furnace, electric-arc furnacean electric furnace in which an electric arc provides the source of heat for making steel chamber a natural or artificial enclosed space |
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