Furnace vs. Kiln

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.

Kilnnoun

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.

Kilnverb

To bake in a kiln.

Kilnnoun

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.

Kilnnoun

A furnace for burning bricks; a brickkiln.

Kilnnoun

a large oven for firing or burning or drying such things as porcelain or bricks

Kiln

A kiln is a thermally insulated chamber, a type of oven, that produces temperatures sufficient to complete some process, such as hardening, drying, or chemical changes. Kilns have been used for millennia to turn objects made from clay into pottery, tiles and bricks.