different between furnace vs tromp

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

English

Etymology 1

1892, variant of tramp.

Verb

tromp (third-person singular simple present tromps, present participle tromping, simple past and past participle tromped)

1. (chiefly US, transitive, intransitive) To tread heavily, especially to crush underfoot.

   Mother yelled at my brothers for tromping through her flowerbed.

   The hoodlums were tromping pumpkins they had stolen from their neighbors' Halloween displays.

   • 2019 December 10, Yacht Club Games, "Story" (Black Knight), in Shovel Knight Showdown (version 4.1), Nintendo Switch, scene: ending:

2. (informal) To utterly defeat an opponent.

   The team had been tromped by their cross-town rivals, and the players were embarrassed to show their faces in school the next day.

Synonyms

• (tread heavily): march, stamp, stomp, tramp, trample
• (utterly defeat): clobber, decimate, rout, trounce, whip

Etymology 2

French trombe, trompe, a waterspout, a water-blowing machine. Compare trump, a trumpet.

Alternative forms

• trombe, trompe

Noun

tromp (plural tromps)

1. A blowing apparatus in which air, drawn into the upper part of a vertical tube through side holes by a stream of water within, is carried down with the water into a box or chamber below which it is led to a furnace.

References

Icelandic

Etymology

From English trump

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?t?r?m?p/

  Rhymes: -?m?p

Noun

tromp n (genitive singular tromps, nominative plural tromp)

1. (card games) trump

Declension

Middle English

Noun

tromp

1. Alternative form of trumpe