different between foundry vs kiln

English

Alternative forms

• foundery (dated)

Etymology

From French fonderie.

Pronunciation

• enPR: foun'dr?, IPA^(key): /fa?nd?i/
• Rhymes: -a?nd?i

Noun

foundry (countable and uncountable, plural foundries)

1. A facility that melts metals in special furnaces and pours the molten metal into molds to make products. Foundries are usually specified according to the type of metal dealt with: iron foundry, brass foundry, etc.
2. The act, process, or art of casting metals; founding.
3. A semiconductor fabrication plant in the microelectronics industry.

Synonyms

• (semiconductor fabrication plant): fab

Derived terms

• type foundry

Translations

Further reading

• foundry on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• foundry (disambiguation) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

English

Etymology

From Middle English kilne, from Old English cylene or cyline (“large oven”), from Latin cul?na (“kitchen, kitchen stove”).

Pronunciation

• (General American, Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /k?l(n)/
• Rhymes: -?l, -?ln
• Homophone: kill (for the pronunciation /k?l/)

Noun

kiln (plural kilns)

1. An oven or furnace or a heated chamber, for the purpose of hardening, burning, calcining or drying anything; for example, firing ceramics, curing or preserving tobacco, or drying grain.

Derived terms

• malt-kiln

Translations

Verb

kiln (third-person singular simple present kilns, present participle kilning, simple past and past participle kilned)

1. To bake in a kiln.

References

• Krueger, Dennis (December 1982). "Why On Earth Do They Call It Throwing?" Studio Potter Vol. 11, Number 1.

Further reading

• kiln on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

• Link, link

Indonesian

Etymology

From English klin, from Middle English kilne, from Old English cylene or cyline (“large oven”), from Latin cul?na (“kitchen, kitchen stove”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [?k?ln], [?k?l??n]
• Hyphenation: kiln

Noun

kiln (first-person possessive kilnku, second-person possessive kilnmu, third-person possessive kilnnya)

1. (archaeology) kiln, an oven or furnace or a heated chamber, for the purpose of hardening, burning, calcining or drying anything; for example, firing ceramics, curing or preserving tobacco, or drying grain.

Further reading

• “kiln” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia (KBBI) Daring, Jakarta: Badan Pengembangan dan Pembinaan Bahasa, Kementerian Pendidikan dan Kebudayaan Republik Indonesia, 2016.