Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. A furnace in which combustion is intensified by a blast of air, especially a furnace for smelting iron by blowing air through a hot mixture of ore, coke, and flux.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. A furnace, usually vertical, or a so-called shaft-furnace, in which ores are smelted by the aid of a blast of air. See furnace.
Wiktionary
- n. a furnace in which iron ore is smelted to iron; the process being intensified by a blast of hot air
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. a furnace, usually a shaft furnace for smelting ores, into which air is forced by pressure.
WordNet 3.0
- n. a furnace for smelting of iron from iron oxide ores; combustion is intensified by a blast of air
Examples
“The meanest blast furnace ever built doesn't come close to reproducing the heat a meteoroid feels when it hits our atmosphere.”
“After another twenty minutes pistoning my legs along this blast furnace of a road, I see a group of motorbikers passing me on their way to the Maze District of Canyonlands.”
“Tiny Bulcher, the blast furnace that walks like a man.”
“Keystone's worst misstep came in the late seventies, when a new two-hundred-million-dollar blast furnace — installed only after baffling technical problems, interminable delays, and cost overruns that sent their accountants reeling — proved, as many would have predicted, to be a white elephant.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘blast furnace’.
-
ENVI - Collocations ABC
An extract from the "Zold Tolmacs" project, a HU-EN environmental dictionary compiled by Robert Gulyas in 2000.
AA battery, aa lava, aapa mire, abandon the project, abandon the sewer..., abandoned car, abandoned dyke, abandoned farm, abandoned field, abandoned industr..., abandoned industr..., abandoned land and 5386 more...
Tweets
Looking for tweets for blast furnace.
Comments
No comments yet...
Log in or sign up to get involved in the conversation. It's quick and easy.