Furnace vs. Heater

Furnacenoun

(UK) An industrial heating device, e.g. for smelting metal or baking ceramics.

Furnacenoun

A device that provides heat for a building; a space heater.

Furnacenoun

(colloquial) Any area that is excessively hot.

Furnacenoun

(figurative) A place or time of punishment, affliction, or great trial; severe experience or discipline.

Furnaceverb

To heat in a furnace.

Furnaceverb

To exhale like a furnace.

Furnacenoun

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.

Furnacenoun

A place or time of punishment, affiction, or great trial; severe experience or discipline.

Furnacenoun

To throw out, or exhale, as from a furnace; also, to put into a furnace.

Furnacenoun

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

Furnace

A furnace, referred to as a heater or boiler in British English, is a heating unit used to heat up an entire building. Furnaces are mostly used as a major component of a central heating system.

Heaternoun

A device that produces and radiates heat, typically to raise the temperature of a room or building.

Heaternoun

A person who heats something, for example in metalworking.

Heaternoun

A gun.

Heaternoun

A fastball, especially one thrown at high velocity.

Heaternoun

An extended winning streak.

Heaternoun

(historical) A medieval European shield having a rounded triangle shape like a clothes iron.

Heaternoun

One who, or that which, heats.

Heaternoun

Any contrivance or implement, as a furnace, stove, or other heated body or vessel, etc., used to impart heat to something, or to contain something to be heated.

Heaternoun

A pistol or other carryable firearm; as, gunmen with their heaters bulging in their pockets.

Heaternoun

device that heats water or supplies warmth to a room

Heaternoun

(baseball) a pitch thrown with maximum velocity;