English > furnace: 1 sense > noun 1, artifact| Meaning | An enclosed chamber in which heat is produced to heat buildings, destroy refuse, smelt or refine ores, etc.. |
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| Parts | grate, grating | A frame of iron bars to hold a fire |
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| register | A regulator (as a sliding plate) for regulating the flow of air into a furnace or other heating device |
| Narrower | athanor | A furnace that feeds itself so as to maintain a uniform temperature |
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| blast furnace | A furnace for smelting of iron from iron oxide ores |
| crematory, crematorium, cremation chamber | A furnace where a corpse can be burned and reduced to ashes |
| cupola | A vertical cylindrical furnace for melting iron for casting |
| electric furnace | Any furnace in which the heat is provided by an electric current |
| firebox | A furnace (as on a steam locomotive) in which fuel is burned |
| forge | furnace consisting of a special hearth where metal is heated before shaping |
| gas furnace | A furnace that burns gas |
| incinerator | A furnace for incinerating (especially to dispose of refuse) |
| kiln | A furnace for firing or burning or drying such things as porcelain or bricks |
| oil burner, oil furnace | A furnace that burns oil |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| Broader | chamber | A natural or artificial enclosed space |
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| Spanish | caldera, calefacción, horno |
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| Catalan | forn |
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