fûr'nĭs
(approximate definition) A fuel burning apparatus in which water is boiled to produce steam for space heating, power generation, or industrial processes.(more precisely) An apparatus in which a heat source other than a hot liquid or steam (most commonly burning fuel, exhaust gas from an internal combustion engine or gas turbine, waste heat from a process, solar energy or electricity) is used to boil water (rarely another liquid), under pressure to provide steam (other gas) for use as a heat source in calorifiers, heat exchangers or heat emitters, or for use directly for humidification, in an industrial process, or to power steam turbines.
The definition of a stove is a device that uses wood, electricity or gas for heating a room, or for cooking.
electric furnace
A furnace heated to high temperatures by an electric current, used in smelting, melting metals, steel making, manufacturing carbides, etc.
A workshop where pig iron is transformed into wrought iron.
reverberatory
A reverberatory furnace.
A person or thing that incinerates; esp., a furnace or other device for incinerating trash
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An apparatus that heats or provides heat.
hot-air furnace
steam furnace
hot-water furnace
oil-burner
A machine that uses oil as its fuel.
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gas furnace
A furnace that burns gas as fuel
annealing furnace
open-hearth furnace
basic oxygen furnace
A chamber or enclosed compartment for heating, baking, or roasting food, as in a stove, or for firing, baking, hardening, or drying objects, as in a kiln.
bof
Birds of a feather (group of people with common interests from the phrase "Birds of a feather flock together").
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The section of a refrigerator used to store food or other perishable items at a temperature below 0° Celsius (32° Fahrenheit).
furnaces
blast-furnace
charcoal-fired
coke-fired
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tuyere
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