furnace
pronunciation
How to pronounce furnace in British English:
UK [ˈfɜːnɪs]
How to pronounce furnace in American English:
US [ˈfɜːrnɪs]
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- Noun:
- an enclosed chamber in which heat is produced to heat buildings, destroy refuse, smelt or refine ores, etc.
Word Origin
- furnace
- furnace: [13] Etymologically, furnace means roughly ‘warm place’. It comes via Old French fornais from Latin fornāx ‘furnace’. This was a derivative of fornus ‘oven’, a word related to formus ‘warm’, which goes back to the same Indo-European source, *ghworm-, *ghwerm-, as probably produced English warm.=> fornication
- furnace (n.)
- early 13c., from Old French fornais "oven, furnace," figuratively "flame of love" (12c.), from Latin fornacem (nominative fornax) "an oven, kiln," related to fornus/furnus "oven," and to formus "warm," from PIE root *gwher- "warm" (cognates: Greek thermos, Old English wearm; see warm (adj.)).
Example
- 1. The other fuel is coal for the furnace ?
- 2. The result : your own internal calorie-burning furnace .
- 3. He and his wife use propane for the furnace the stove and the hot-water heater .
- 4. The furnace metaphor breaks down .
- 5. A cadre of specialists from portugal stands ready to line the furnace shell with heat-resistant bricks .