furnace

English

An oil furnace for heating a building

Etymology

From Middle English forneys, from Old French fornais (French fournaise), from Latin fornāx.

Pronunciation

(General American) IPA^(key): /ˈfɝnɪs/
(Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈfɜːnɪs/
Audio (US) (file)
Rhymes: -ɜː(ɹ)nɪs

Noun

furnace (plural furnaces)

(UK) 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.
(figurative) A place or time of punishment, affliction, or great trial; severe experience or discipline.
- 1530, [William Tyndale, transl., The Pentateuch] (Tyndale Bible), Deuteronomye iiij:[20], folio IX, recto:
  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.
- 1866, Herman Melville, Battle-Pieces and Aspects of the War‎, Supplement:
  For that heroic band—those children of the furnace who, in regions like Texas and Tennessee, maintained their fidelity through terrible trials—we of the North felt for them, and profoundly we honor them.

Derived terms

almond furnace
almond-furnace
blast furnace
converting furnace
furnacey
ladle furnace
muffle furnace
muffler furnace
Pernot furnace
philosophical furnace
reduction furnace
regenerative furnace
reverberatory furnace
Rockhill Furnace
semimuffle furnace
shaft furnace
smoke like a furnace
there may be snow on the rooftop but there is fire in the furnace

Translations

device for heating — see oven

device for heating in a factory, melting metals, etc

Armenian: հնոց (hy) (hnocʿ), քուրա (hy) (kʿura)
Old Armenian: բով (bov)
Assyrian Neo-Aramaic: ܐܲܬܘܼܢܵܐ‎‎ m (āttuna)
Belarusian: печ f (pječ), то́пка f (tópka)
Bulgarian: пещ (bg) f (pešt)
Chichewa: ng'anjo
Chinese:
Mandarin: 爐子／炉子 (zh) (lúzi), 熔爐／熔炉 (zh) (rónglú), 爐／炉 (zh) (lú)
Czech: pec (cs) f
Dutch: oven (nl) m, ketel (nl) m
Finnish: sulatusuuni, ahjo (fi), uuni (fi), masuuni (fi)
French: four (fr) m, haut fourneau (fr) m
Galician: forno (gl) m
German: Ofen (de) m, Hochofen (de) m, Schmelzofen (de) m
Gothic: 𐌰𐌿𐌷𐌽𐍃 m (auhns)
Greek: καμίνι (el) n (kamíni), φούρνος (el) m (foúrnos)
Ancient: κάμινος f (káminos)
Hungarian: kemence (hu), kohó (hu)
Irish: foirnéis f
Italian: fornace (it) f, bruciatore (it) m, caldaia (it) f
Japanese: 窯 (ja) (かま, kama), 溶鉱炉 (ようこうろ, yōkōro), 炉 (ja) (ろ, ro)
Korean: 노 (ko) (no), 용광로 (yonggwangno)
Latin: fornax f
Ligurian: fornâxe f
Macedonian: печка f (pečka)
Maori: tahunga
Mongolian: пийшин (mn) (piišin)
Persian: کوره‎ (fa) (kure)
Polabian: pic f
Polish: piec (pl) f
Portuguese: forno (pt) m, fornalha (pt) f
Romanian: furnal (ro) n
Russian: печь (ru) f (pečʹ), горн (ru) m (gorn), до́мна (ru) f (dómna), то́пка (ru) f (tópka)
Serbo-Croatian:
Cyrillic: пећ f
Roman: peć f
Slovak: vyhňa f, pec f
Slovene: peč (sl) f
Spanish: horno (es) m, caldera (es) f
Swedish: masugn (sv) c
Tagalog: dapugan
Turkish: fırın (tr), yüksek fırın (tr)
Ukrainian: піч (uk) f (pič), то́пка f (tópka), піч (uk) (pič), горно (uk) (horno), горни́ло (hornýlo), вагра́нка (uk) (vahránka)
Vietnamese: lò (vi), lò sưởi (vi)
Yiddish: אויוון‎ m (oyvn)

device for heating a building

Dutch: ketel (nl) m
Finnish: uuni (fi), lämmitysuuni (fi), pannu (fi)
French: chaudière (fr) f
Galician: calefacción (gl) f
German: Ofen (de) m, Heizung (de) f
Hungarian: kályha (hu), kazán (hu)
Irish: foirnéis f
Italian: caldaia (it) f, bruciatore (it) m
Latin: camīnus m
Manx: furnish m
Portuguese: fornalha (pt) f
Russian: печь (ru) f (pečʹ)
Sorbian:
Lower Sorbian: kamjeny pl
Spanish: calefacción (es) f
Ukrainian: піч (uk) (pič), гру́бка (hrúbka)
Vietnamese: please add this translation if you can

hot area

Bulgarian: фу́рна f (fúrna)
Finnish: pätsi (fi)
Greek: καμίνι (el) n (kamíni), φούρνος (el) m (foúrnos)
Russian: то́пка (ru) f (tópka), печь (ru) f (pečʹ), пе́чка (ru) f (péčka)
Ukrainian: пе́кло (péklo)

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