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An industrial furnace in which ore is smelted to metal, the process being intensified by a blast of hot air.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Topics: engineering, metallurgy, natural-sciences, physical-sciences
Examples
- Holonyms: ironworks, steelworks
- Meronym: tuyeres
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
An industrial furnace in which ore is smelted to metal, the process being intensified by a blast of hot air.
As above, but specifically such a furnace where the fuel and the ore are intermixed, as for example when coke and iron ore are burned together.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Topics: engineering, metallurgy, natural-sciences, physical-sciences
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
a furnace for smelting of iron from iron oxide ores; combustion is intensified by a blast of air
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: furnace
No etymology was provided for this word.
Across languages
Translations
35 source translations are retained for this English entry.
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Basque:
labe garai
— furnace where iron ore is smelted
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Chinese Mandarin:
高爐 /高炉
(gāolú)
— furnace where iron ore is smelted
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Czech:
vysoká pec
— furnace where iron ore is smelted
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Danish:
højovn
— furnace where iron ore is smelted
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Esperanto:
altforno
— furnace where iron ore is smelted
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Estonian:
kõrgahi
— furnace where iron ore is smelted
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Finnish:
masuuni
— furnace where iron ore is smelted
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French:
haut fourneau
— furnace where iron ore is smelted
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Georgian:
ბრძმედი
(brʒmedi)
— furnace where iron ore is smelted
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German:
Hochofen
— furnace where iron ore is smelted
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Greek:
υψικάμινος
(ypsikáminos)
— furnace where iron ore is smelted
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Indonesian:
tanur tiup
— furnace where iron ore is smelted
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Irish:
foirnéis soinneáin
— furnace where iron ore is smelted
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Italian:
altoforno
— furnace where iron ore is smelted
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Japanese:
高炉
(kōro)
— furnace where iron ore is smelted
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Japanese:
熔鉱炉
(yōkōrō)
— furnace where iron ore is smelted
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Kazakh:
темірлік
(temırlık)
— furnace where iron ore is smelted
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Kazakh:
домна
(domna)
— furnace where iron ore is smelted
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Korean:
용광로
(yonggwangno)
— furnace where iron ore is smelted
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Korean:
고로
(goro)
— furnace where iron ore is smelted
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Malay:
relau bagas
— furnace where iron ore is smelted
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Norwegian Bokmål:
masovn
— furnace where iron ore is smelted
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Norwegian Nynorsk:
masomn
— furnace where iron ore is smelted
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Persian:
کوره بلند
— furnace where iron ore is smelted
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Polish:
wielki piec
— furnace where iron ore is smelted
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Portuguese:
alto-forno
— furnace where iron ore is smelted
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Portuguese:
alto forno
— furnace where iron ore is smelted
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Quechua:
wayrachina
— furnace where iron ore is smelted
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Romanian:
furnal
— furnace where iron ore is smelted
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Russian:
до́мна
(dómna)
— furnace where iron ore is smelted
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Spanish:
alto horno
— furnace where iron ore is smelted
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Swedish:
masugn
— furnace where iron ore is smelted
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Tagalog:
dagisdising dapugan
— furnace where iron ore is smelted
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Turkish:
yüksek fırın
— furnace where iron ore is smelted
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Vietnamese:
lò cao
— furnace where iron ore is smelted
