different between burner vs furnace

English

Etymology

From burn +? -er.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?b??n?/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /?b?n?/
• Rhymes: -??(?)n?(?)

Noun

burner (plural burners)

1. Someone or something which burns.
2. An element on a kitchen stove that generates localized heat for cooking.

   Synonym: (UK) ring

   Hyponym: back burner
3. (chemistry) A device that generates localized heat for experiments; a Bunsen burner.
4. A device that burns fuel; e.g. a diesel engine; a hot-air balloon's propulsion system.
5. A device for burning refuse; an incinerator.
6. (computing) A device that allows data or music to be stored on a CDR or CD-ROM.
7. (slang) Short for burner phone; a mobile phone used for only a short time and then thrown away so that the owner cannot be traced.
8. (computing) An app that creates temporary phone numbers for a user.
9. (slang) An elaborate piece of graffiti.
10. (slang) A pyrotechnic tear gas canister.
11. (slang) A gun.
12. Alternative letter-case form of Burner (“participant in Burning Man”).

Descendants

• ? Japanese: ???? (b?n?)

Derived terms

• charcoal burner
• wood burner

Translations

Anagrams

• Bruner, reburn

English

Etymology

From Middle English forneys, from Old French fornais (French fournaise), from Latin forn?x.

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /?f?n?s/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?f??n?s/

Noun

furnace (plural furnaces)

1. (Britain) An industrial heating device, e.g. for smelting metal or baking ceramics.
2. (US, Canada) A device that provides heat for a building; a space heater.
3. (colloquial) Any area that is excessively hot.
4. (figuratively) A place or time of punishment, affliction, or great trial; severe experience or discipline.
   • c. 1530, William Tyndale, Tyndale Bible, Deuteronomy 4:20:

     For the Lorde toke you and broughte you out of the yernen fornace of Egipte, to be vnto him a people of enheritaunce, as it is come to passe this daye.

Derived terms

• furnacey

Translations

Verb

furnace (third-person singular simple present furnaces, present participle furnacing, simple past and past participle furnaced)

1. To heat in a furnace.
2. To exhale like a furnace.

Anagrams

• Fraunce