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furnace English

Learners of English as a second language usually know the word furnace once they have reached the level C2 – Proficient. English words by learner level A1 A2 B1 B2 C1 C2

Meaning furnace meaning

What does furnace mean?

Definitions in simple English

furnace Noun

— A furnace is a machine that is used to heat a building.

— A furnace is a place that is very hot.

furnace

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

Synonyms furnace synonyms

What other words have the same or similar meaning as furnace?

furnace English » English

oven

stove

kiln

forge

fireplace

heater

hearth

prepare

oast

incinerator

heating

crematorium

cooker

cook

stoking

reactor

pile

heat

grill

gas stove

focus

firebox

fire side

fire chamber

crematory

charge composition age

campaign life

campaign length

campaign

burners

bukhari

boiler

bhukari

batch

bakery

Vesta

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Furnace English » English

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Topics furnace topics

What do people use furnace to talk about?

Daily life Fire

Fireplace

• Where do people light fires?
  fireplace stove lamp lantern candle trash heap firepot incinerator furnace heater kiln barbeque forge blast furnace crematorium brazier range cooker gas ring burner

Daily life

Household equipment

• What kinds of things are used to heat or cool a house?
  heater furnace air-conditioning

Work and occupation Occupation Working with minerals

Smelting

• What tools and equipment are used to get metal out of rocks?
  furnace forge crucible

Work and occupation Occupation Working with minerals

Working with metal

• What tools does a blacksmith use?
  hammer anvil tongs forge furnace bellows

Work and occupation Occupation Working with minerals

Working with glass

• What tools are used to work with glass?
  furnace pipe

States Quality

Hot

• What things do people use to stay warm when it is cold?
  fire heater furnace central heating radiator hot-water bottle electric blanket

Examples furnace examples

How do I use furnace in a sentence?

Simple sentences

It is not as a child that I believe and confess Jesus Christ. My hosanna is born of a furnace of doubt.

The heat of the furnace warmed the whole house.

Movie subtitles

At the signal, a mass of molten steel is directed from each furnace into the mold for the gun.

Nothing could be left alive in that furnace.

I think if you don't mind we'll go down and see what's happened to the furnace.

Cold? In this furnace?

But, Father Fitzgibbon, why do you want a new furnace?

I think you ought to give him his furnace, Dad.

No furnace?

No furnace.

Then he burns the cats at midnight in his furnace.

The subway was a furnace though.

Someone clogged the furnace, and it's smoking up the place.

We found a body burned in the furnace.

Ooh, its breath was like a furnace!

Then the camp's gotta be between Vienna's and Furnace Ridge, 'cause there's nothing beyond the ridge, I know that.

In this furnace?

Then I-Then it-it-it closed in on me like- like a blast from a furnace.

Came at me like a roaring furnace with spitting fire in all directions.

It's by the furnace.

The furnace?

Oh the fellow in the furnace.

Its breath was like a furnace.

You made a bed of excelsior down the basement, behind that old furnace and you sleep there, where nobody can see you.

The subway was a furnace though. Wow.

It'll take about six minutes to get into Belletier's from the furnace room.

You made a bed of excelsior. down the basement, behind that old furnace. and you sleep there, where nobody can see you.

I just can't stop thinking about that poor woman probably lying in a cellar someplace right this minute, just ready to be popped into the furnace.

You yourself have generated the heat of a dozen suns in the nuclear furnace on the other side of that wall.

Who's turning her furnace up higher?

Guilty of not dying of hunger, of not being shot or burned in a furnace!

For ordinary men, it's a burning fiery furnace.

News and current affairs

Likewise, just a hundred years ago, the average American family spent six hours each week during cold months shoveling six tons of coal into the furnace (not to mention cleaning the coal dust from carpets, furniture, curtains, and bedclothes).

At a more modest level, hackers were able to destroy a blast furnace at a German steel mill last year.