Furnace vs. Kiln

Furnace and Kiln Definitions
Furnace
An enclosure in which energy in a nonthermal form is converted to heat, especially such an enclosure in which heat is generated by the combustion of a suitable fuel.
Kiln
Any of various ovens for hardening, burning, or drying substances such as grain, meal, or clay, especially a brick-lined oven used to bake or fire ceramics.
Furnace
An intensely hot place
The furnace of the sun.
An attic room that is a furnace in the summer.
Kiln
To process in one of these ovens.
Furnace
A severe test or trial
Endured the furnace of his friends' blame after the accident.
Kiln
An oven or furnace or a heated chamber, for the purpose of hardening, burning, calcining or drying anything; for example, firing ceramics, curing or preserving tobacco, or drying grain.
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Furnace
(UK) An industrial heating device, e.g. for smelting metal or baking ceramics.
Kiln
To bake in a kiln; to fire.
When making pottery we need to allow the bisque to dry before we kiln it.
Furnace
A device that provides heat for a building; a space heater.
Kiln
A large stove or oven; a furnace of brick or stone, or a heated chamber, for the purpose of hardening, burning, or drying anything; as, a kiln for baking or hardening earthen vessels; a kiln for drying grain, meal, lumber, etc.; a kiln for calcining limestone.
Furnace
(colloquial) Any area that is excessively hot.
Kiln
A furnace for burning bricks; a brickkiln.
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Furnace
(figurative) A place or time of punishment, affliction, or great trial; severe experience or discipline.
Kiln
A large oven for firing or burning or drying such things as porcelain or bricks
Furnace
To heat in a furnace.
Furnace
To exhale like a furnace.
Furnace
An inclosed place in which heat is produced by the combustion of fuel, as for reducing ores or melting metals, for warming a house, for baking pottery, etc.; as, an iron furnace; a hot-air furnace; a glass furnace; a boiler furnace, etc.
Furnace
A place or time of punishment, affiction, or great trial; severe experience or discipline.
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Furnace
To throw out, or exhale, as from a furnace; also, to put into a furnace.
He furnacesThe thick sighs from him.
Furnace
An enclosed chamber in which heat is produced to heat buildings, destroy refuse, smelt or refine ores, etc.