different between furnace vs melter
furnace
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)
- (Britain) An industrial heating device, e.g. for smelting metal or baking ceramics.
- (US, Canada) A device that provides heat for a building; a space heater.
- (colloquial) Any area that is excessively hot.
- (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.
- c. 1530, William Tyndale, Tyndale Bible, Deuteronomy 4:20:
Derived terms
- furnacey
Translations
Verb
furnace (third-person singular simple present furnaces, present participle furnacing, simple past and past participle furnaced)
- To heat in a furnace.
- To exhale like a furnace.
Anagrams
- Fraunce
furnace From the web:
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melter
English
Etymology
melt +? -er
Noun
melter (plural melters)
- A person or thing that melts.
- A furnace used for melting iron in a foundry.
- A laborer who operates such a furnace.
Translations
Anagrams
- remelt
melter From the web:
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