furnace
UK/ˈfɜːnɪs//ˈfɝnɪs/
furnace noun: an industrial heating device, such as for smelting metal or firing ceramics.
Noun
furnace (plural furnaces)
- An industrial heating device, such as for smelting metal or firing ceramics.
- Plans for the next phase include furnaces capable of inert atmospheres and partial vacuums.
- A device that provides heat for a building.
- HVAC services include furnace maintenance.
- Any area that is excessively hot.
- The busy kitchen became a sweltering furnace.
- A place or time of punishment, affliction, or great trial; severe experience or discipline.
- forged in the furnace of fierce competition
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Verb
furnace (third-person singular simple present furnaces, present participle furnacing, simple past and past participle furnaced)
Proper noun capitalized: Furnace
Furnace
furnace meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Urdu and Bengali
furnace in Hindi
- device for heating in a factory, melting metals, etc
- भट्ठा bhaṭṭhā, भट्ठी bhaṭṭhī
furnace in Tamil
- உலைக்களம், சூளை, மிகச்சூடான இடம், கடும் சோதனை, மனவேதனை, உலைக்களத்தில் சூடாக்கு
furnace in Urdu
- furnace
- بھٹی bhaṭī, تندور tandūr
furnace in Bengali
- চুল্লি, বয়লার
More languagesFewer languages
- furnace in Malayalam
- ഉല ula
- furnace in Kannada
- ಕುಲುಮೆ, ಉರಿಕೋಣೆ, ಮುಚ್ಚಿದ ಒಲೆ, ಕುಮಟಿ
- furnace in Punjabi
- ਭੱਠੀ bhaṭṭhī
- furnace in Assamese
- জুইশাল zuixal
- furnace in Tagalog
- dapugan
- furnace in Persian
- کوره kure
- furnace in Vietnamese
- lò, lò sưởi
Examples of furnace in a sentence
- The kerosene lasted all winter, so the furnace kept us always warm.
- The steel industry has long used blast furnaces to smelt iron.
- We’ll liquefy this rock by heating it in a furnace until it melts and flows out.
Forms of furnace
| Noun | |
|---|---|
| plural | furnaces |
| Verb | |
| third-person singular present | furnaces |
| present participle | furnacing |
| past participle | furnaced |
| past | furnaced |
Origin of furnace
Inherited from Middle English forneys, borrowed from Old French fornais, from Latin fornāx.
Words formed from furnace
Phrases with furnace
Questions about furnace
- What does furnace mean?
- Furnace means an industrial heating device, such as for smelting metal or firing ceramics.
- What is furnace in Hindi?
- Furnace in Hindi is भट्ठा (bhaṭṭhā), भट्ठी (bhaṭṭhī). See Furnace meaning in Hindi.
- What part of speech is furnace?
- Furnace can be a noun, a verb or a proper noun.
- How do you pronounce furnace?
- Furnace is pronounced /ˈfɝnɪs/ (US).
- What is the plural of furnace?
- The plural of furnace is furnaces.
Words near furnace in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: furnace (page history and authors); Furnace (page history and authors); furnace (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); بھٹی (Urdu) (page history and authors); furnace (Bengali Wiktionary) (page history and authors); ഉല (Malayalam) (page history and authors); furnace (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors); ਭੱਠੀ (Punjabi) (page history and authors); জুইশাল (Assamese) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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