Lexic.us

Definition of Furnace

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

Definition of Furnace

1. n. An inclosed place in which heat is produced by the combustion of fuel, as for reducing ores or melting metals, for warming a house, for baking pottery, etc.; as, an iron furnace; a hot-air furnace; a glass furnace; a boiler furnace, etc.

2. n. To throw out, or exhale, as from a furnace; also, to put into a furnace.

Definition of Furnace

1. Noun. A device for heating. ¹

2. Noun. A device that heats materials being processed in a factory. ¹

3. Noun. A device that provides heat for a building. ¹

4. Noun. Any area that is excessively hot. ¹

5. Verb. To heat in a furnace ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Furnace

1. to subject to heat [v -NACED, -NACING, -NACES]

Medical Definition of Furnace

1. An enclosed chamber or container used to burn biomass in a controlled manner to produce heat for space or process heating. (05 Dec 1998)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Furnace

Literary usage of Furnace

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. A French-English Dictionary for Chemists by Austin McDowell Patterson (1921)
"d cuvette, (Soda) a salt-cake furnace using pots, as distinguished from a ... Perrot, Perrot furnace (a gas furnace for heating crucibles or one for ..."

2. The Engineering Index Annual for by American Society of Mechanical Engineers (1909)
"90827 B. The Use of Blast furnace and Coke Oven Gas. FE Junge. ... 90916 D. Blast-furnace Gas as the Sole Source of Power in a Modern Steelworks (Le Gaz de ..."

3. Transactions by American Ethnological Society (1861)
"At the same time, it must be admitted that there are cases where it is attended with danger to pass the return air over a furnace, and perhaps others where ..."

4. United States Supreme Court Reports by Lawyers Co-operative Publishing Company, United States Supreme Court (1885)
"To reduce this metal from the heavy slag of the smelting furnace, ... To accomplish the desired result I employ a cupola furnace, but furnaces specially ..."

5. Journal of the American Chemical Society by American Chemical Society (1901)
"A perfectly dry furnace supported by metallic bands will generally crack to some extent, and it is seldom possible to put the furnace in use a second time. ..."

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