Synonyms for furnace
ˈfɜr nɪsfur·nace

Princeton's WordNet

1. furnacenoun

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

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1. List of paraphrases for "furnace":

   oven, kiln, boiler, chaudière, stove, ovens, furnaces, four, heater, fours, heating, smelter, cooker

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1. Ben King:

   All those things can combine to help get more heat pumps deployed, a heat pump is more energy efficient than something like a furnace. The less electricity you're consuming, the better off you are.

2. Roy Rickhuss:

   The blast furnace must be mothballed properly to give it the chance of a future. We have serious concerns about the ability of SSI to do this and so the government must step in.

3. Metastasio:

   As gold is tried by the furnace, and the baser metal shown, so the hollow-hearted friend is known by adversity.

4. Kazuhiro Harada:

   I expect the steel market will remain on an upward trend for a while and Japan's bigger blast furnace makers will also increase prices.

5. Kazuhiro Harada:

   Other Japanese electric arc furnace steelmakers are likely to follow Tokyo Steel's step to mirror a jump in steel scrap prices, i expect the steel market will remain on an upward trend for a while and Japan's bigger blast furnace makers will also increase prices.