different between kiln vs glost

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.

English

Etymology

See gloss.

Noun

glost (uncountable)

1. (often attributive) Lead glazing used for pottery.
   • 1912, Alice Hamilton, Lead Poisoning in Potteries, Tile Works, and Porcelain Enameled Sanitary Ware Factories, Bulletin of the United States Bureau of Labor, Whole Number 104, Industrial Accidents and Hygiene Series, No. 1, page 18,

     In the sanitary-ware potteries of Trenton, and in the general-ware potteries of East Liverpool, the glost-kiln men simply place the glazed ware in saggers, and therefore the only exposure to lead comes from getting their hands smeared with the glaze.

   • 1942, American Ceramic Society Bulletin, Volume 21, page 47,

     The variations in glaze texture with different glost thermal treatment were observed. Two glazes, each made of the same end formula but differing in the distribution of their composition, received four different commercial glost firings.

   • 1978, W. Ryan, Properties of Ceramic Raw Materials, 2nd Edition, page 19,

     If no decoration is applied, biscuit or glost firing is the final operation in manufacture.

Derived terms

• glost oven

German

Verb

glost

1. inflection of glosen:
   1. second/third-person singular present
   2. second-person plural present
   3. plural imperative