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kiln
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kiln  (kln, kl)
n.
Any of various ovens for hardening, burning, or drying substances such as grain, meal, or clay, especially a brick-lined oven used to bake or fire ceramics.
tr.v. kilned, kiln·ing, kilns
To process in one of these ovens.

[Middle English kilne, from Old English cyln, from Latin culna, kitchen, stove; see pekw- in Indo-European roots.]

kiln [kɪln]
n
(Fine Arts & Visual Arts / Ceramics) a large oven for burning, drying, or processing something, such as porcelain or bricks
vb
(Fine Arts & Visual Arts / Ceramics) (tr) to fire or process in a kiln
[Old English cylen, from Late Latin culīna kitchen, from Latin coquere to cook]

kiln
  • hovel - A conical building enclosing a kiln.
  • oast - A kiln used to dry hops or malt or tobacco.
  • battledore - Can refer to various tools, such as the paddle of a canoe or a utensil for inserting loaves into an oven or wares into a kiln.
  • china - Comes from Persian chini, for the delicate and valuable ware first made in China; the word describes pieces made from certain kinds of clay that have been glazed, usually decorated, and fired in a kiln at high temperatures.
  • ThesaurusLegend:  Synonyms Related Words Antonyms
    Noun1.kiln - a furnace for firing or burning or drying such things as porcelain or brickskiln - a furnace for firing or burning or drying such things as porcelain or bricks
    brickkiln - a kiln for making bricks
    dry kiln - a kiln for drying and seasoning lumber
    furnace - an enclosed chamber in which heat is produced to heat buildings, destroy refuse, smelt or refine ores, etc.
    limekiln - a kiln used to reduce naturally occurring forms of calcium carbonate to lime
    muffle - a kiln with an inner chamber for firing things at a low temperature
    oast - a kiln for drying hops
    Translations
    kiln [kɪln] Nhorno m

    kiln [ˈkɪln] nfour m

    kiln
    n (for baking, burning) → (Brenn)ofen m; (for minerals) → Röst- or Kiesofen m; (for drying bricks etc) → Trockenofen m; (for hops etc) → Darre f, → Darrofen m

    kiln [kɪln] nfornace f

    kiln
    n kiln [kiln]
    a type of large oven for baking pottery or bricks, drying grain etc. steenoond أتون، فُرْن пещ pec ovn der Brennofen καμίνι horno põletusahi کوره uuni four כִּבשָׁן ईंटों का भट्टा peć za pečenje (vapna, opeke) égetőkemence pembakaran (leir)brennsluofn fornace かま (벽돌 등을 굽는) 가마 krosnis ceplis tanur oven brenne-/tegl-/tørkeovn piec do wypalania fornalha cuptor de ardere (промышленная) печь pec žgalna peč peć za pečenje grnčarije brännugn เตาเผา tuğla ocağı, fırın 窯,乾燥爐 сушильна, випалювальна піч بھٹّی یا تنور lò nung 窑,


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