- like a furnace
- spoken
if a place is like a furnace, it is hot in a very unpleasant way
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like a furnace
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like a furnace — spoken phrase if a place is like a furnace, it is hot in a very unpleasant way Thesaurus: general words for warm and hotsynonym warm and hot weatherseealso Main entry: furnace … Useful english dictionary
smoke like a furnace — smoke a lot of cigarettes, chain smoke He died of lung cancer. He used to smoke like a furnace … English idioms
furnace — noun (C) 1 a large container in which a very hot fire is made, to produce power or heat, or to melt metals see also: blast furnace 2 be like a furnace spoken to be extremely hot: Let s open a window, it s like a furnace in here! … Longman dictionary of contemporary English
furnace — UK [ˈfɜː(r)nɪs] / US [ˈfɜrnɪs] noun [countable] Word forms furnace : singular furnace plural furnaces a large enclosed container in which you burn fuel, used for heating a building or for an industrial process such as making metal liquid See:… … English dictionary
furnace — fur|nace [ fɜrnıs ] noun count a large enclosed container in which you burn fuel, used for heating a building or for an industrial process such as making metal liquid => BLAST FURNACE like a furnace SPOKEN very hot … Usage of the words and phrases in modern English
Furnace — For other uses, see Furnace (disambiguation). Industrial Furnace from 1907 A furnace is a device used for heating. The name derives from Latin fornax, oven. In American English and Canadian English, the term furnace on its own is generally used… … Wikipedia
Furnace Green — infobox UK place country = England latitude= 51.0998 longitude= 0.159 official name= Furnace Green population = shire district= Crawley shire county = West Sussex region= South East England constituency westminster= Crawley post town= Crawley… … Wikipedia
Pine Grove Furnace State Park — Geobox Protected Area name = Pine Grove Furnace State Park native name = other name = other name1 = category local = Pennsylvania State Park category iucn = III image caption = Historic remnants of the industrial past of Pine Grove Furnace at… … Wikipedia
Blast furnace — A blast furnace is a type of metallurgical furnace used for smelting to produce metals, generally iron. In a blast furnace, fuel and ore are continuously supplied through the top of the furnace, while air (sometimes with oxygen enrichment) is… … Wikipedia
Open-front furnace — Open O pen, a. [AS. open; akin to D. open, OS. opan, G. offan, Icel. opinn, Sw. [ o]ppen, Dan. aaben, and perh. to E. up. Cf. {Up}, and {Ope}.] 1. Free of access; not shut up; not closed; affording unobstructed ingress or egress; not impeding or… … The Collaborative International Dictionary of English
