FURNACE

Pronunciation (US):

• FURNACE (noun)
  The noun FURNACE has 1 sense:

1. an enclosed chamber in which heat is produced to heat buildings, destroy refuse, smelt or refine ores, etc.

  Familiarity information: FURNACE used as a noun is very rare.

• FURNACE (noun)

Meaning:

An enclosed chamber in which heat is produced to heat buildings, destroy refuse, smelt or refine ores, etc.

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Hypernyms ("furnace" is a kind of...):

chamber (a natural or artificial enclosed space)

Meronyms (parts of "furnace"):

grate; grating (a frame of iron bars to hold a fire)

register (a regulator (as a sliding plate) for regulating the flow of air into a furnace or other heating device)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "furnace"):

athanor (a furnace that feeds itself so as to maintain a uniform temperature; used by alchemists)

reverberatory furnace (a 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)

open-hearth furnace (a 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)

oil burner; oil furnace (a furnace that burns oil)

kiln (a furnace for firing or burning or drying such things as porcelain or bricks)

incinerator (a furnace for incinerating (especially to dispose of refuse))

gas furnace (a furnace that burns gas)

forge (furnace consisting of a special hearth where metal is heated before shaping)

firebox (a furnace (as on a steam locomotive) in which fuel is burned)

electric furnace (any furnace in which the heat is provided by an electric current)

cupola (a vertical cylindrical furnace for melting iron for casting)

cremation chamber; crematorium; crematory (a furnace where a corpse can be burned and reduced to ashes)

blast furnace (a furnace for smelting of iron from iron oxide ores; combustion is intensified by a blast of air)

tank furnace (furnace into one end of which a batch of measured raw materials is shoveled and from the other end molten glass is obtained)