kiln

«kiln» in Mova's school dictionary: A very hot oven used for baking (firing) clay pots… — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 1 sentence of Mova's corpora that use it.

part of speech

noun (a kiln, kilns)

meaning for a pupil

A very hot oven used for baking (firing) clay pots, bricks or tiles to make them hard, or for drying things like wood or hops. tree →

sense in the lessons

In art lessons: clay models are fired in a kiln at school, and they become hard ceramics. In science: heating clay causes an irreversible change — it cannot turn back into soft clay. In history: old brick kilns and lime kilns. Safety: kilns are extremely hot, only adults use them. Phrases: «fire in a kiln», «pottery kiln», «brick kiln».

examples

• Our clay pots went into the kiln to be fired. tree →
• The kiln gets much hotter than a kitchen oven. tree →
• After the kiln, the clay was hard and shiny. tree →
• Only the art teacher can open the kiln. tree →
• The old brick kiln is now a museum. tree →
• Bricks are baked in a kiln. tree →
• And toward evening he came to another brick-kiln. tree →

note

Countable. Pronounced «kiln» (some people say «kill»). Firing clay in a kiln is an irreversible change.

In the corpora

• A kiln for firing clay is extremely hot and is for adults only.

Trees and pragmatics

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