furnace
Definition of furnace:
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part of speech: noun
A time or place of grievous affliction or torment; as, the furnace of affliction: a place where a vehement fire and heat may be made and maintained, as for melting ores or metals, heating the boiler of a steam- engine, warming a house, baking pottery or bread, and other such purposes. Furnaces are constructed in a great variety of ways, according to the different purposes to which they are applied. In constructing furnaces the following objects are kept in view:-( 1) To obtain the greatest quantity of heat from a given quantity of fuel. ( 2) To prevent the dissipation of the heat after it is produced. ( 3) To concentrate the heat and direct it as much as possible to the substances to be acted upon. ( 4) To be able to regulate at pleasure the necessary degree of heat and have it wholly under the operator's management. An air furnace is one in which the flames are urged only by the natural draught; a blast furnace, one in which the heat is intensified by the injection of a strong current of air by artificial means; a re- verberatory furnace, one in which the flames in passing to the chimney are thrown down by a low- arched roof upon the objects which it is intended to expose to their action.
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part of speech: noun
An enclosed fireplace for obtaining a high degree of heat; grievous afflictions.
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Common misspellings:
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- furance (27.5%)
- funace (2.8%)
- furna (0.2%)
- funance (0.2%)
- furnance (58.5%)
- furnase (0.7%)
- furace (1.1%)
- fernace (0.9%)
- firnace (0.2%)
- furnacae (0.2%)
- furnice (2.8%)
- furnac (0.2%)
- furncae (0.9%)
- frunace (1.0%)
- furmace (0.2%)
- furnce (0.7%)
- funrace (0.4%)
- fuernice (0.2%)
- fernance (0.3%)
- fernice (0.2%)
- furncase (0.2%)
- furncce (0.2%)
- furnence (0.2%)
Usage examples for furnace:
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Desire is the furnace in the engine- house.
"The Blue Germ" – Martin Swayne -
The extracts which follow furnish another illustration of the horrors produced by passions blown up to fury in the furnace of arbitrary power.
"The Anti-Slavery Examiner, Omnibus" – American Anti-Slavery Society -
In a minute this room will be a furnace
"The Gray Mask" – Wadsworth Camp -
I thought first of burning the body in the furnace
"The Crime of the French Café and Other Stories" – Nicholas Carter
