Furnace
noun
A structure for heating things, often for making metal or glass.
The blacksmith uses a furnace to heat the iron before shaping it into a sword.
Often appears as...
- blast furnace
- gas furnace
noun
A piece of equipment for heating a building.
In the winter, they turn on the furnace to keep the house warm.
Often appears as...
- furnace filter
- furnace ventilation
noun
A situation or place of severe trial, or in which a severe test is undergone.
His time in prison was a furnace of suffering.
Often appears as...
- furnace of affliction
- furnace of trial
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Formal
Literary
noun
A structure for heating things, often for making metal or glass.
The blacksmith uses a furnace to heat the iron before shaping it into a sword.
Often appears as...
- blast furnace
- gas furnace
noun
A piece of equipment for heating a building.
In the winter, they turn on the furnace to keep the house warm.
Often appears as...
- furnace filter
- furnace ventilation
noun
A situation or place of severe trial, or in which a severe test is undergone.
His time in prison was a furnace of suffering.
Often appears as...
- furnace of affliction
- furnace of trial
Usage tips
Formal
Literary
Definition 1 of 3
Pro Tip 1/3Industrial Use
Often found in industrial settings where intense heat is needed for production.
Large factories have furnaces to melt steel for manufacturing.
Pro Tip 2/3Extreme Temperatures
Refers to high heat environments, capable of melting metals or glass.
Safety gear is necessary when operating a furnace because of the extreme heat.
Pro Tip 3/3Specialized Workplaces
Frequently used by specific professions like blacksmiths or glassblowers.
The blacksmith worked by the furnace to create horseshoes.
Pro Tip 1/3Industrial Use
Often found in industrial settings where intense heat is needed for production.
Large factories have furnaces to melt steel for manufacturing.
Pro Tip 2/3Extreme Temperatures
Refers to high heat environments, capable of melting metals or glass.
Safety gear is necessary when operating a furnace because of the extreme heat.
Pro Tip 3/3Specialized Workplaces
Frequently used by specific professions like blacksmiths or glassblowers.
The blacksmith worked by the furnace to create horseshoes.
Pro Tip 1/3Industrial Use
Often found in industrial settings where intense heat is needed for production.
Large factories have furnaces to melt steel for manufacturing.
Pro Tip 2/3Extreme Temperatures
Refers to high heat environments, capable of melting metals or glass.
Safety gear is necessary when operating a furnace because of the extreme heat.
Pro Tip 3/3Specialized Workplaces
Frequently used by specific professions like blacksmiths or glassblowers.
The blacksmith worked by the furnace to create horseshoes.
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most of our samples vaporized into nothing, or exploded inside expensive furnaces, leaving a horribly sticky mess. In fact, we were so saddened by our failures that we almost gave up. So why did we keep trying when all the adults said it was impossible?
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But remember those iron deposits? That iron sand is put into it tatara, or a clay tub furnace. This is the only one left in Japan. It's heated, mixed with charcoal to add carbon, and voila! Steel. Tamahagane steel, the most expensive steel in the world.
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Sighing like furnace, with a woeful ballad Made to his mistress’ eyebrow. Then a soldier, Full of strange oaths, and bearded like the pard, Jealous in honour, sudden and quick in quarrel, Seeking the bubble reputation
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Sun and it will keep on shining for four billion years a vast nuclear furnace nearly a million miles across from a distance this process seems almost peaceful with the sun's power gently
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Pretty simple idea. But he put a trick into that law. He said every three years, the code gets tighter, and tighter, and tighter. And how do you know how much tighter? Anything that pays for itself in energy savings gets thrown into the code. So in the intervening years, we got better insulation, better windows, better furnaces, better roofing.
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and send them off to help make the building blocks of more robots. Their colleagues assemble those parts into still more robots, which are transported to the right location in the factory and given the tools they need to start working. Every robot draws energy from the central power plant, a giant furnace that can burn regular fuel
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Fossil fuel companies...
The simplest option is to capture the carbon dioxide as it's generated from the chimney of a power station, or blast furnace, or refinery. You purify it, compress it, and re-inject it back underground. If you inject it deep enough and into the right rock formations, it stays there, just like the hydrocarbons it came from.
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How much electricity...
We’ll have to eliminate these emissions entirely to ensure a sustainable future for humanity. The first step to doing so, for many industries, is to switch from fossil fuels to electric power. We'll need to electrify cars, switch buildings heated by natural gas furnaces to electric heat pumps,
Video examples
A plan to recycle the...
most of our samples vaporized into nothing, or exploded inside expensive furnaces, leaving a horribly sticky mess. In fact, we were so saddened by our failures that we almost gave up. So why did we keep trying when all the adults said it was impossible?
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Samurai Sword - Linked PIPE...
But remember those iron deposits? That iron sand is put into it tatara, or a clay tub furnace. This is the only one left in Japan. It's heated, mixed with charcoal to add carbon, and voila! Steel. Tamahagane steel, the most expensive steel in the world.
Video examples
How we can curb climate...
And the path of this coal is going to help me with it. back to steel. What you have to know about steelmaking is that it's a humblingly brutal process. These huge furnaces that tear apart and recombine elements and materials
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"All the World's a...
Sighing like furnace, with a woeful ballad Made to his mistress’ eyebrow. Then a soldier, Full of strange oaths, and bearded like the pard, Jealous in honour, sudden and quick in quarrel, Seeking the bubble reputation
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Birth of the Solar...
Sun and it will keep on shining for four billion years a vast nuclear furnace nearly a million miles across from a distance this process seems almost peaceful with the sun's power gently
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Gary Paulsen
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My parents were brutal to each other, so I slept in the basement by an old coal-fired furnace. I became a street kid. Occasionally, I'd live with aunts or uncles, then I'd run away to live in the woods, trapping and hunting game to survive. The wilderness pulled at me; still does.
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I went to boarding school from the age of eight - first to prep school, then to Eton. One thing that kind of education teaches you is community living: there's little retreat. That's why people come out of it and talk about lifelong friendships forged in the furnace.
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Richard Cecil
English Clergyman
God's way of answering the Christian's prayer for more patience, experience, hope and love often is to put him into the furnace of affliction.
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Anthony Hopkins
Welsh Actor
I worked at the Steel Company Of Wales when I was 17. My job was to supply tools to the guys working the blast furnaces.
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Edith Pearlman
American Writer
I wrote in the cellar for a number of years. I needed a private space, and it had a furnace, so it was always warm.
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Georg Buchner
German Dramatist
The statue of Freedom has not been cast yet, the furnace is hot, we can all still burn our fingers.
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George Santayana
Spanish Philosopher
For gold is tried in the fire and acceptable men in the furnace of adversity.
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Poetry is how I feed the soul, and it's how I fire the furnace of writing.
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Matthew Henry
English Clergyman
Those that go gold into the furnace will come out no worse.
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Marilu Henner
American Actress
You just have to stoke that furnace throughout the day.
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Gary Paulsen
American Writer
My parents were brutal to each other, so I slept in the basement by an old coal-fired furnace. I became a street kid. Occasionally, I'd live with aunts or uncles, then I'd run away to live in the woods, trapping and hunting game to survive. The wilderness pulled at me; still does.
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Damian Lewis
English Actor
I went to boarding school from the age of eight - first to prep school, then to Eton. One thing that kind of education teaches you is community living: there's little retreat. That's why people come out of it and talk about lifelong friendships forged in the furnace.
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Richard Cecil
English Clergyman
God's way of answering the Christian's prayer for more patience, experience, hope and love often is to put him into the furnace of affliction.
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Anthony Hopkins
Welsh Actor
I worked at the Steel Company Of Wales when I was 17. My job was to supply tools to the guys working the blast furnaces.
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Edith Pearlman
American Writer
I wrote in the cellar for a number of years. I needed a private space, and it had a furnace, so it was always warm.
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Georg Buchner
German Dramatist
The statue of Freedom has not been cast yet, the furnace is hot, we can all still burn our fingers.
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George Santayana
Spanish Philosopher
For gold is tried in the fire and acceptable men in the furnace of adversity.
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Luis Alberto Urrea
Mexican Poet
Poetry is how I feed the soul, and it's how I fire the furnace of writing.
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Matthew Henry
English Clergyman
Those that go gold into the furnace will come out no worse.
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Marilu Henner
American Actress
You just have to stoke that furnace throughout the day.
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