different between furnace vs smelter

English

Etymology

From Middle English forneys, from Old French fornais (French fournaise), from Latin forn?x.

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /?f?n?s/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?f??n?s/

Noun

furnace (plural furnaces)

1. (Britain) An industrial heating device, e.g. for smelting metal or baking ceramics.
2. (US, Canada) A device that provides heat for a building; a space heater.
3. (colloquial) Any area that is excessively hot.
4. (figuratively) A place or time of punishment, affliction, or great trial; severe experience or discipline.
   • c. 1530, William Tyndale, Tyndale Bible, Deuteronomy 4:20:

     For the Lorde toke you and broughte you out of the yernen fornace of Egipte, to be vnto him a people of enheritaunce, as it is come to passe this daye.

Derived terms

• furnacey

Translations

Verb

furnace (third-person singular simple present furnaces, present participle furnacing, simple past and past participle furnaced)

1. To heat in a furnace.
2. To exhale like a furnace.

Anagrams

• Fraunce

English

Etymology

smelt +? -er

Noun

smelter (plural smelters)

1. A person employed to do smelting.

   He works as a smelter.

2. A machine used to smelt metal.

   Throw the scrap in the smelter so we can melt it down and reuse it.

3. A place where smelting is done.

   We'll take the scrap to the smelter and get some money for it.

Translations

Anagrams

• melters, remelts, resmelt

Norwegian Bokmål

Verb

smelter

1. present tense of smelte

Norwegian Nynorsk

Verb

smelter

1. present of smelta