Associations to the word «Furnace»

Wiktionary

FURNACE, noun. A device for heating.
FURNACE, noun. A device that heats materials being processed in a factory.
FURNACE, noun. A device that provides heat for a building.
FURNACE, noun. Any area that is excessively hot.
FURNACE, noun. (figurative) A place or time of punishment, affiction, or great trial; severe experience or discipline.
FURNACE, verb. To heat in a furnace

Dictionary definition

FURNACE, noun. An enclosed chamber in which heat is produced to heat buildings, destroy refuse, smelt or refine ores, etc..

Wise words

Words are always getting conventionalized to some secondary meaning. It is one of the works of poetry to take the truants in custody and bring them back to their right senses.
William Butler Yeats