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Furnace vs Nonfurnace - What's the difference?

furnace | nonfurnace |

As a noun furnace

is a device for heating.

As a verb furnace

is to heat in a furnace.

As an adjective nonfurnace is

not of or pertaining to a furnace.

furnace

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • A device for heating.
  • A device that heats materials being processed in a factory.
  • A device that provides heat for a building.
  • Any area that is excessively hot.
  • (figurative) A place or time of punishment, affiction, or great trial; severe experience or discipline.
  • * William Tyndale, (Tyndale Bible), :
    • 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.

    Verb

    (furnac)
  • To heat in a furnace

    • nonfurnace

    English

    Adjective

    (-)
  • Not of or pertaining to a furnace.
  • * 1989 , Boris Z. Rumer, Soviet steel: the challenge of industrial modernization in the USSR
    • Considerable efforts are being made in Soviet ferrous metallurgy to expand the application of refinement of steel through nonfurnace processing — through vacuum, inert gases, and synthetic slag...