furnace 
fur·nace (fʉr′nəs)
noun
- an enclosed chamber or structure in which heat is produced, as by burning fuel, for warming a building, reducing ores and metals, etc.
- any extremely hot place
- a grueling test or trial
Etymology: ME furnaise < OFr fornais < L fornax (gen. fornacis), furnace: see warm
furnace
n.
Preposition: of
- affliction: How often in some furnace of affliction God strikes them off!
Converse of object
- smelled: Remains of these smelting furnaces were found among the slag pieces.
- stoke: Female worker stoking a furnace in a gas works.
- blaze: Whoever does not fall down and worship will immediately be thrown into a blazing furnace.
- melt: Arc Furnace A steel melting furnace in which heat is generated by an arc between graphite electrodes and the metal.
- construct: Lond. ref: F36 Kiln furnace constructed of burnt clay, reinforced with wasters.
- feed: Coal fed the furnaces of British industry for 150 years.
Adjective modifier
- fiery: They learned lessons in the fiery furnace they would never have learned in the cool of day.
- reverberatory: More modem buildings were erected with modem machinery, including reverberatory furnaces and round buddles.
- arc: Both carbon and alloy steels are produced in electric arc furnaces and scrap rather than molten metal is used as the base material.
- electric: The world series his electric furnace not for their.
- solar: Figure 4: A solar furnace ( picture from NREL ).
Modifies a noun
- slag: Indeed some blast furnace slag is used to make glass and cement.
- lining: The furnace lining is made of coarse refractory clay mixed with organic material.
Noun used with modifier
- blast: The pit was situated near the blast furnace about half a mile from the village.
- puddling: Puddling furnaces were set up in the 1830's to meet the demand for malleable iron for the rail tracks for the railroad expansion.
- bloomery: These are small conical mounds or horseshoe shaped mounds of slag associated with bloomery furnaces geographically situated in the Highlands of Scotland.
- melting: Each ton of glass returned to the melting furnaces reduces our demand on raw materials by 1.2 tons.
- muffle: The sample may be heated up to about 800°C using a small muffle furnace while the platen is mounted on a water-cooled loading arm.
- coke: A coke furnace was kept burning 24 hours a day to draw a continuous flow of air through the sewer.
A dungeon horrible, on all sides round As one great furnace flamed; yet from those flames No light, but rather darkness visible Served only to discover sights of woe, Regions of sorrow, doleful shades, where peace And rest can never dwell, hope never comes That comes to all.
Tearsmay be intellectual, but theycan never be political. They save no man from being shot, no child from being thrown alive into the furnace.
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