furnace

«furnace» in Mova's school dictionary: a very hot enclosed fire or oven used to melt metal, make… — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 5 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

part of speech

noun (a furnace, furnaces)

meaning for a pupil

1) A furnace is a very hot enclosed fire or oven used to melt metal, make glass or burn things. tree →

2) (USA, Canada) The heater in a house that warms the air or water for the whole home. tree →

3) A very hot place: «The classroom was a furnace today». tree →

sense in the lessons

In science and history lessons blast furnaces melt iron from rock to make steel, and furnaces made the Industrial Revolution possible. In North American homes, the furnace is the heating system in the basement. In the Bible, Shadrach, Meshach and Abednego were thrown into a fiery furnace and were not harmed. Phrases: «blast furnace», «a fiery furnace», «hot as a furnace».

examples

• The iron was melted in a huge furnace. tree →
• Our furnace broke, so the house was cold all night. (USA) tree →
• Glassblowers heat the glass in a furnace. tree →
• The car was like a furnace after sitting in the sun. tree →
• In the Bible story, three men walked unharmed in the fiery furnace. tree →
• Coal kept the old furnaces burning day and night. tree →
• Never go near a furnace without an adult; it can burn you badly. tree →
• “Set me a task!” said he, with a voice like the roaring of an iron furnace. tree →

note

Countable: furnaces. In the UK a home heater is usually called a boiler; in the USA and Canada, a furnace. Pronunciation: FUR-nis. Safety: furnaces are dangerous and only for trained workers.

In the corpora

• The three friends were thrown into a fiery furnace but were not burnt.
• Behold, I have refined thee, but not as silver; I have tried thee in the furnace of affliction.
• The refining pot is for silver, and the furnace for gold; but the LORD trieth the hearts.
• The refining pot is for silver, and the furnace for gold, and a man is tried by his praise.
• and whoso falleth not down and worshippeth shall the same hour be cast into the midst of a burning fiery furnace.'

Trees and pragmatics

Every meaning and example of «furnace» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.