Meaning & use
Furnace
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An enclosed structure or appliance in which fuel is burned to produce heat, used for heating a building, smelting metal, or industrial processes.
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The old house's furnace kicked on with a low rumble as the temperature dropped.
Workers fed scrap iron into the blast furnace to be melted down.
A note on using this word
Figuratively, 'furnace' is often used to describe an extremely hot place, as in 'the desert was a furnace by noon.'
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